The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-06-04
BIG INCREASE IN
EXPORT COTTON
CLOTHS TO CHINA
Russo Japanese War Caused
Falling Off, but Conditions
Are Better Now.

Exports of cotton goods to China are
again increasing. China is. as a rule,
the largest purchaser Of American cot
tons, but in the years 1907 and 1908 the
exports Of cotton cloths to that country
fell to a small fraction of those of the
Immediately preceding years. Exports
of cotton cloths to China averaged in
the fiscal years of 1905 and 1906 1885,
000.0 600 yards per annum; In 1907 and
1908 they averaged but 63, zoo, 900 per
annum, or o~ne-seventh as much as the
average of 1905-06. In the fiscal year
1906 the quantity of cotton cloths ex
ported to China aggregated 49S, 521, 400
yards; in the fiscal year 1908 the guam
tity was 49, 1871, or just one-tenth as
much as in 1906.
This large falling off in the exports
of cotton cloths to u formerly largest
customer, China, was due, chiefly al
least, to the fact that the imports OF
that country in 1905 and 1906 were alb.
normally large and far In excess of the
actual consuming power of that mar
ket. North China. especially Man
churia, supplies the principal market
of that country for American cottons,
and when the tern.i,a+ion of the Rus
so-Japanese war indicated that the
doors of that section would be again
opened to the importations
of cottons, and especially American
cottons, into China were enormously
increased. and as a consequence our
exports of cotton cloths to China adj
vanced from n, 900, 900 yards in 1904 to
AIS, 900. 900 in 1905 and 499, 900, 900 in 1906.
while Chinese imports of cottons from
other countries also enormously in
creased.
The April export statement of the
Bureau of Statistics of the Department
of Commerce and Labor shows clearly
the marked increase of exports of cot
tons to China and the return toward
normal conditions. In the single month
of April the quantity of cotton goods
exported to China was 16. 1856, 34s yards,
against 7.237,119 in April of last year.
and in the ten months ending with
April, 1909, the total export of cotton
cloths to China was 100, 116, 1877 yards,
against 30,5 97, 101 yards in the corre-
spending period of 1908. This total OF
100, 0O0, 900 yards of cottons sent to
China in the ten months ending with
April, 1909, is larger than in any CORE
spending period prior to 1899, and has
only been exceeded OF six occasions.
namely in 1899, 1900, 1902, 1908. 1905 and
1906. For the month of April alone the
exports of cottons to China are larger
than in that month of any prior year
except 1902. 1903. 1905 and 1906.
To no other country are the exports
as large as to China, even in the years
of depression. In 1908, when the lowest
record of exports to China during the
last fifteen years was made, the value
of cotton cloths sent to that country
was more than twice as great as to any
other country, Cuba coming next in
rank, then Chill, British Australasia,
Philippine Islands, Colombia and Can
ada. in the order named. In the ten
months ending with April. 1909, the
quantity of cotton cloths sent to China
was 100, 116, 1877 yards, against 23,23S, 500
to Alden, Arabia; 16,s63,sS to Cuba,
IL, s43, 244 to Colombia, 10. 467, 057 to Brit
ish East Indies, and s,s36,5o1 to the
Philippine Islands.