Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-04-15
Figures Showing Amount
Of Imports and Exports,
Total Value More Than 81,
000,000,0O0 Annually.
The unlted States Furnishes One
Per Cent Of Cotton Goods.

Washington. April 14.-Oriental com
merce amounts in value to more thar
$4,000, 100000 per annum.
This statement is the result of cal
cuIations recently made by the Bureau
of Statistics of the Department OF
Commerce and Labor. 1t classes as
Oriental commerce" the imports and
exports Of all countries having pop
ulation wholly or chiefly Oriental in
habits Of life, whether through nativity
descent or other influences which de-
termine the customs of the people. The
area occcpied by people of Oriental
habit of life. as to dress. food. house
hold requirements, methods of trans
portation. etc, stretches, therefore,
from japan and Asiatic Russia at the
northeast to Morocco in North Africa
at the southwest, and includes Asia,
Turkey in Europe, ard all that part OF
North Africa occupied chiefly by peo-
pie Of Oriental habits, the total
number Of people within this area be-
ing 933.G,0h00. or considerably more
than one-half of the population of the
world
The imports Of this Commercial ORR
emit" according to the latest figures
available to the Bureau Of Statistics,
amount to s2,l50, OO0. 900. and the exports
$2,033, oOO.U0G. OF these imports of 81,
$50. 1900, per cent. are taken from the
Unite'l States; OF the exports of S2.033
900 1000. ~ per cent. are sent to the
United States.
India is the largest importer and eX-
porter among The thirty countries. col
Onies. and the proto ctorates included
within this section which the Bureau of
Statistics designates the Commercial
Orient; it's imports in the latest year
for which figures are available. amount
to 5000 600, Of which "A per cent.
were taken from the United States; its
exports, $4,000, 900. of which rs per
cent. were sent to the United States.
China occupies the next rank as a
commercial nation in the area under
consideration. it's imports amounting to
s342, 100000. of which Sc per cent were
from the United States; it's exports,
$2l1 ,000,O00 of which 10.1 per cent. We're
sent to the United States. Japan's i'm
pOrtatiOnS in the latest available year,
were S217 100000, Of which IFS per cent.
We're sent from the United States, and
ner experts, loS,o00.0o0, of which 1873
per cent were sert to the United
States. Straits Settlements. of which
Singapore is the port and commercial
entrepot. shows imports Of $l99 DOC, 900,
of which | per cent. We're from the
United States. and exports of $l73.
OO0. 900. of which % per cent were sent
to the United States
The British colony of Hongkong, To-
Gated on an island just off the coast of
China and distributing point for ORR
ertal commerce, makes no statistical
record Of merchandise entering and
leaving its port. hut a calculation of
the merchandise sent from the various
countries OF TIE world thereto and re-
ceived by the various countries of the
world therefrom indicates that it's re-
ceipts of merchandise in the latest
available year We're about $3.50 900. 900,
of which 40 per cent. We're from the
United States; and it's shipments. $l63,-
100000, of which IL per cent were to
the United States. Turkey in Asia and
Europe shows imports of $133. 600, 900. of
which o. per cent. We're from the Uni
ter states; ami exports of $4,000, 900. of
which Il Per cent. were to the United
States. Egypt shows imports OF
s1.9.0G0,00o. of which % per cent. We're
from the United States: and exports of
sl3s000,0O0. of which - per cent We're
20 the United States. The Dutch East
Indies show imports of SSS000. 900. Of
which lG per cent. were from the Uni
ted States; and, exports of s121 ,000.0n0 OF