The Hawaiian gazette., 1908-03-27

The following is from a trade circu
lar issued by the Department Of Com
merce land Labor: - sssss,
The trade of. the United States with
its noncontiguous territories aggregat.
led last year 147. million dollars. 81
more than our trade with all foreign
countries in 1880. and practically hall
as much as our trade with all foreign
! countries in 1850.
The term 'noncontiguous territories
includes Porto Rico, Alaska, the Ha-
waiian Islands, the Philippine Islands,
the Midway Islands, Guam and Tutu-
liza. To those territories was sent from
the United States in the calendar year
1907, 20 million dollars worth of mer-
chandise and from them was sent to
the United States Is million do. lars
worth of merchandise and II million
dollars worth of gold produced within
Alaska.
OF the 20 million dollars worth OF
merchandise sent to those territories
during 1907, IL million dollars worth
went to the Philippine Islands; 16 mill
lion dollars worth to the Hawaiian Is
lands; II 1-2 millions to Alaska, and
rs millions to Porto Rico. OF the rs
million dollars worth of merchandise
received from those territories II mil
lion dollars worth was from Alaska:
IL million dollars worth from the Phil
ippines; % millions from Porto Rico,
and 80 millions from Hawaii.
Ten years earlier, in the calendar
year 1897, when all of this area, ex-
cept Alaska, was foreign territory, the
value Of our exports to the Philippine
Islands was $69,459, against the So
926,071 in 1907; to the Hawaiian Islands
in 1897 s5,47S.224, against the s15,732.-
OLA Of 1907, and to Porto Rico in 1897
s2,023,751, against the s25, 225,1S4 of 1907.
The total value Of merchandise sent in
1897 to the Philippine Islands, Hawaii.
and Porto Rico was 1851, 434. and in
1907 s51,SS3,329. The imports from the
Philippine Islands in 1897 were 1885,
1S1, against s12,264,47S in 1907; from
Porto Rico in 1897 s1,943,251, against
500, S06, 047 in 1907, and from the Hawai-
ian Islands in 1897 s15,311, 6S5. against
1872, 017,05 in 1907. The value of the
received from Porto Rico,
Hawaii. and the Philippine Islands in
1897 was $21. III, and in 1907 s67,-
0S7,579. In the case of Alaska there is
no opportunity to compare the figures
of 1897 with those of 1907, since no rec
ord Of the trade with Alaska was made
prior to 1903, in which year the mer-
chandise sent thereto from the United
States was a little less than 10 million
dollars, against II 1-2 million dollars
in 1907, and the merchandise received
therefrom about 10 million dollars,
against about IL million dollars in mer-
chandise and II million dollars worth
Of gold in 1907.
The principal articles forming this
147 million dollars worth of merctan-
disc passing between the United
States and its noncontiguous terri
tories are, as regards shipments into
the United States from the poncon-
tiguous territories, sugar, chiefly from
Hawaii; sugar, tobacco and fruits from
Porto Rico; hemp from the Philippine |
Islands, AMI fish. furs, and copper ore /
from Alaska, and in addition to these
about u millions worth of gold mine |
IN Alaska and sent to the United /
States. The merchandise sent from |
the United States to these noncon- |
tiguous territories was of a miscel- |
aneous character, though manufac-
lures formed a very large proportion |
in all cases.
OF the II million dollars worth of |
domestic merchandise of all kinds sent |
to Alaska in 1907, S1s million dollars /
worth, or nearly one-half of the total, |