Arizona republican., 1910-12-12
"A FIFTEEN MONTH PERIOD
Shows an Increase of More Than $23, 100000 as Com pared With Like Period Before Enactment of the New Tariff Law.

Washington, Dec. 11.-Trade between the United States and the Philippine islands has practically doubled since the enactment of the present tariff law which permits an interchange free of duty of practically all articles passing between the United States and those islands. The total value of imports in- to the United States from the Philip
 pine islands in the first fifteen months operation of the new tariff law amounted to s24 100000, against S11. 800. .O0O in the fifteen months inn mediately preceding the enactment of that law; while the exports to the islands in heffifteen months since its enactment are S23.SO0,O0O against S12.- 800, 900 in the fifteen months immedi- ately prior to it's enactment. Thus the imports from the islands in the fifteen months since the enactment of the law for which a record of the commerce is now available. are slightly more than double, and exports thereto slightly less than double those in the fifteen months prior to its enactment.
 The exact figures for the fifteen months period, August l. 1909, to Oc- tOber 31, 1910, all of which was under the new tariff except the first five days of August, are, imports from the Philippines. SPA ,317,75O. exports to those islands. S23.392. .1S6, making. the total value for that period, $47, 7,709.944. For the fifteen months immediately prior to the enactment of that law. from May 1, 1908, to July 31. 1909. inclusive. the total imports from the islands were SI1,5S GAP, the exports thereto. SIP, 1, 623, making a total of s24,225, ,265 against S47.7O9,944 in the fifteen months period since the enactment of the law. though. as above indicated, the later period includes five days under the old law, since the reports of inn ports and exports as made to the bureau of statistics cover only full months and do not render possible the separation of the five days in August 1909. in which the old law was in op- eration. The figures are sufficiently comparable. however. to justify the statement that trade with the Philip pines since the enactment of the new law has nearly doubled compared with that of the fifteen months prior to it's enactment.
 Comparing the ten months or tle calendar year. 1910. for which figures are now available. January 1 to Octo- Der 31, all of which was under the new tariff law. with the corresponding months of the calendar year 1908. all of which was under the preceding law. the figures are. imports from the Phi lippine islands in the first ten months of the calendar year 1908. $S.146,23S. in the corresponding months of the calendar year 1910. s15.366,S ,S9S; exports to the Philippine islands in the first ten months of 1908, SS452. .1O4. in the corresponding period of 1910. $16,497,- 057. the 1910 figures being thus prac- tically double those of kSOS Tn both imports and exports. Philippine of ficial figures for the first quarter of the current calendar year show that merchanise from the United States formed 36 per cent of the total im- ports against 14.S per cent In the corresponding quarter of last year, the figures in each case being exclusive of imports by supply officers of the army, navy and insular government and rail- way free entries.