Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-12-24
ALMOST oNE-HALF OF EXPORTS
FROM STATES GO TO BRITISH
TERRITORIES.
CANADA GETS LARGE SHARE,
KINGDOM AND INDIA SOME
Total Value of United States Exports
to British Countries is se42, ooo,o 600
Excess of Exports Over Imports is
Larse-census Bureau Issues Inter-
estins Figures.

Washington, Dec. 24.-Nearly one
half of the exports from the United
States goes to British territory, and
nearly one-third of its imports is drawn
from British territory. Trade between
the United States and the British en-
pire, including in this term the United
Kingdom, Canada, India, and it's other
colonies and dependencies in various
parts of the world, aggregated in the
ten months of 1909 for which statistics
are valuable, nearly one billion dollars,
out of total of two and one-half bill
lions representing the entire foreign
commerce of the country No other ma
ton approximates the British empire
in the value OF its commercial inter-
course with the United States With
British territory the trade of the Unit
ed States in ten months of 1909 aggre-
gated ss6 million dollars; with German
territory, 206 millions; and with Dutch
territory. ITO millions.
The total value of merchandise ex-
ported from the United States to Brit.
ish territory in the ten months ending
with October, 1909, was 624 million dol
lars, while to all other parts of the
world the total was 1877 millions, of
which 1S5 millions went to German
territory, ninety-nine millions to
French territory, and seventy-six mil
lions to Dutch territory. OF the totai
ekportation of 624 million dollars to all
British territory. 405 millions went to
the United Kingdom, .154 millions to
Canada, twenty-five millions to Aus
to British Africa and the British West
Indies. six millions to India, and five
millions to Hongkong.
The total value of merchandise i'm
ported into the United States from
British territory in the ten months
ending with October 1909, was 362 MIL
lion dollars, While from all other parts
of the world the total was S34 mil
lions. of which 1873 : million dollars
worth was from German territory, 107
million from French territory and "a
millions from Dutch territory. OF the
imports from British territory. valued
at 1852 millions in the period named,
the United Kingdom is credited with
1873 million dollars; Canada, 70 mil
lions; India, 40 millions: Australasia,
and the Straits Settlements, each
about 151s millions; and the British
West Indies. 10 millions.
Exports Exceed Imports.
In its trade with British territory
the United States shows an excess of
exports over imports with respect to
every political division except the East
and West Indies. For the ten months
ending with October, 1909, this excess
of exports over imports was, in the
case of the United Kingdom, 2o6 mil
lion dollars; Canada, 741s millions;
10 millions; British Afri-
ca, 61h millions; and Hongkong, sill
lions. Trade with British India, on the
other hand, showed an excess of i'm
million dollars; the Straits Settle
ments, IA millions; other East Indies,
4 millions, and the British West Indies
a half million dollars, making for Brit
ish territory as a whole an excess of
exports from the United States of 262
million dollars, compared with a like
excess of so millions in the case of
German territory; 81 millions in trade
with Dutch territory, and " millions
in trade with Belgium.
Canada, second to the United King.
dom in order of magnitude among the
British territories as a market for pro-
ducts of the United States. shows the
largest growth, the value of the exports
thereto in the ten months of 1909 hav-
ing beeT4541a million dollars, against
12S millions in the same period of last
year. and 120 millions in the same
months of 1905 Meantime exports to
the United Kingdom only increased
from 403 millions in the ten months of
1905 to 405 millions in 1909: those to
Australasia, from A21 millions to 25 mil
lions; British West Indies, from mil
lions to Millions; India, from Az mil
lions to 1-3 millions; and Newfound-
land, from 2 millions to 8 millions;
while exports to British Africa and
Hongkong in each case decreased about
1 million dollars. From all the import
ant political divisions of the British
empire, imports have decreased during
the last four years: those from the
United Kingdom, from 15s million dol
lars in the first ten months of 1905 to
1893 millions in the same months of the
present year; those from Canada,
from SO millions to 20 millions; India,
from 80 millions to 40 millions;
from u millions to 16 mil
lions; the British West Indies, from 9
millions to 10 millions: and British Al
RIGA, from liz millions to nearly
millions, the only decrease occurring
in imports from the Straits settlements
III million dollars worth of merchan-
disc having been imported in ten
months of 1905 and 15A millions 1909
up to Oct. 81.