Arizona republican., 1909-12-27
THE: TRADE IF bR|T0NS An Item Of Some American
 Commercial Importance OUR BIGGEST CUSTOMER
Six-sevenths of All Exports of Merchandise From This Country Last Year Went to Great Britain and Its Dependencies

washington. Deg. 2G-Nearly one. I haif Of the exports from the United states goes to British territory and
 nearly one-third of it's imports is
 drawn from British territory Trade between the United States and the british empire. including in this term
 the united Kingdom. Canada. India
 and it's other colonies and dependen-
 cies in various parts of the world
 aggregated in the ten months of 1909
 For which statistics are avaiIabIe nearly sl.000.000. out of q total n,
 .5oo.00O.000. representing the entire
 foreign commerce of the country No
 other nation appriximates the British
 empire in the value of its commer- ciai intercourse with the, United
 States With British territory the
 trade of the United States in ten
 months of 1909 aggregated ssS6. .00O.-
 900; with German territory. s3Is.0 =
 ooe: with French territory. se06 000. .
 900. and with Dutch territory. sl1a,-
 100000
 The total value Of merchandise ex-
 ported from the United States to
 British territory in the ten months
 ending with October 1909, was s624.
 100000. while to all other parts of the
 world the total was s737. .00O. .000 of
 which sls5.000.000 went To German territory. s99.000.000 to French terri tory and s16.000.000 to Dutch territory. Of the total exportation of ss24. GOO . 900 to all British territory. s405. 900. . coo went to the United Kingdom. sl54.0O0.O00 to Canada. s25 .000. .O00 to Australia. little over s90O0.O00 each to British Africa and the British West Indies. s6.000.000 to India and s5.000.000 to Hongkong
 The total value of merchandise im- ported into the United States from British territory in the ten months ending with October, 1909. was s362.- 100000. while from all other parts of the world the total was sS34 .o00, ,O00, of which s133. 3.000,0 GOO worth was from German territory. s107. .00O. GOO from French territory and s34. .00O.0 from Dutch territory. Of the imports from British territory. valued at 1862. .00O.- 900 in the period named. the United Kingdom is credited with s19s. 1899. .g99 dollars; Canada. s7O.o0O,OO0; India. s40, ,o0o.000; Australasia and the Straits Settlements, each about s15.- 500.000. and the British West Indies 10000. .00O
 In it's 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 King dom. s20s. 900. 900; Canada. s74.500. 900: Australasia. sI0.000.000: British Af- rica, Ss,500.000, and Hongkong. sf.DOO.- GOO. Trade with British India. on the other hand. showed an excess of imports over exports amounting to s33. 5000 900; the Straits Settlements. s14 100000; other East Indies, s4.O00.- GOO and the British West Indies s5O0.- GOO. making for British territory as q whole an excess of exports from the United States of s262. .00O. GOO. com pared with like excess of $50. .000. 900 in the case of German territory. s3f.- GOO. 900 in trade with Dutch territory and s6,500,000 in trade with Belgium
 Canada, second to the United King dom in order of magnitude among the British territories as a market for products of the United States, shows the largest growth, the value of the exports thereto in the ten months of 1909 having been S154 300. .000 against BPS DOG, 900 in the same period of last year and s120,o00.o00 in the same months of 1905. Meantime exports to the United Kingdom only increased from s4O3.ooo.OO0 in the ten months of 1905 to $405.o00. 900 in 1909: those to Australasia. from S21.000.000 to s25, 100000: British West Indies. from sS. .O00,00 to s9.000.0 .000: India. from s4.750, 900 to $6.330. 900. and Newfound- land. from s2.000.0O0 to s3.00O. 900: while exports to British Africa and in each case decreased about s1,000.0O0. From all the inn portant political divisions of the Brit ish empire imports have increased during the last four years. those from the United Kingdom from s15S. .000 in the first ten months of 1905 to s199 900. 900 in the same months of the present year: those from Canada. from ss3.000.000 to s70. 1000. 900: India from s32.000.0OO to s4O.0OO.O0O: Aus from s12.000.000 to s16.000.- poo: the British West Indies. from s9. .000.000 to s10.000,000. and British Africa from s1.500.000 to nearly E. .000. .060 the only decrease occurring in imports from the Straits Settle 100000 worth of merchant disc having been imported in teni'