Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-04-15


which 81 per cent. were to the United
States. The Philippine Islands show
imports of $31, 100000. of which 1874 per
cent were from the United States: and
exports Of s32. 0O0, 900, of which 31.5 per
cent were to the United States.
About one third of the imports and
exports by those countries having an
Oriental population is inter- Oriental
imports from or exports to other ORR
entail countries. India supplies raw cot
ton to Japan, and cotton yarns and
opium to China. Rice is sent from Bur-
ma, Siam and French Indo-China to
Japan the Philippine Islands and certain
parts of China. Japan supplies cotton
goods and certain other manufactures
to China The Dutch East Indies sup
ply sugar to China, Japan, and other
sections of the Orient.
About two thirds of the imports AMI
exports of the countries in question is
trade with nom Oriental countries,
chiefly Europe and America. OF the
total imports, amounting to $3.50. O0O.-
900, the Bureau Of Statistics calculates
that about $500, O00.000,O0O is from
Occidental countries, chiefly Eruope
and the United States. OF this grand
total of 81 500, 100000 worth if imports
from the Occident. cotton goods from.
by far. the largest single item.
The value of cotton goods imported
into all countries forming the area
designated by the Bureau Of Statistics
az the commercial Orient was, in
the latest available year, over
$500 .OOO, 900, of which approximately
per cent was manufactured in the
United States, and practically all of
the remainder in Europe.
These large sales of cotton goods
by European manufacturers to the
people of the jOrient have been built
I'D and maintained, according to infor-
nation received by the Bureau of
Statistics. primarily by making goods
Of texture, colors and patterns to suit
the local markets of the various sec
tions to which they are sent; prices
and terms to meet the customs and re-
quirements of the people; the main
tenance of agents in those sections OF
the world to study business conditions,
social customs. and. therefore. the re-
quirements of the markets; the esta5-
lishment of banking facilities and
methods by which long credits may be
extended: a plentiful supply of carry
ing facilities, and cheapness of pro-
duction by the home manufacturers
The small percentage which the United
States manufacturers have in this
trade is apparently due to the indls-
position at the present time of Ameri-
can manufacturers to devote to that
foreign trade the detailed attention
given by European manufacturers. in
Guiding the special manufacture OF
goods to suit the local markets; the
maintenance of trade representatives
in those fields; and the other atten-
tions which have given success to the
European countries, which purchase
their raw material from the United
States, and. after turning it into the
finished form, supply the Orient with
practically all of the more than 400
million dollars worth of cotton goods
which it annually imports.
Even this enormous market for cot
ton goods which the Orient now offers
seems likely, according to information
received by the Bureau of Statistics,
to greatly enlarge with the develop
ment of new industries in those sec
tions of the orient in which cotton
goods are now manufactured by hand
labor The imports of cotton yarns
into China, as shown by figures receiv-
ed by the Bureau of Statistics, aggre-
eating in value as much AS
all cotton cloths imported, and
all of these imported yarns,
together with considerable guam
titles of other yarns produced in
China, are turned into cloth by hand
labor, indicating that of the cotton
cloths now used in China, but about
one-t third are imported and the other
two-thirds made in China by hand
labor Should the development "f new
industries in the Orient displace the
hand trades, as has already been the
case in certain sections, the Oriental,
market for factory made cotton cloth
would thus be enormously increased.
WONDERFUL GAINS FOR
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