Arizona republican., 1911-12-25
HERE ARE FIGURES ON
 TRADE WITH BRITAIN
Statistics Show Billion Dollars Worth of Merchandise Was Han
 died in Ten Months,

over d billion dollars worth of
 merchandise passed between the I'nited
 States and British territory in the ten months ending with October for which statistics have been compiIed The Bureau of Statistics of the De-
 partment of Commerce and Labor re-
 ports that exports from the United
 States to British territory in the per-
 iod named aggregated 759 million and
 imports therefrom 3s3 million dollars
 thus indicating that for every dollars
 worth of merchandise imported from
 the territory in question. two dollars
 worth of American products are ex-
 ported thereto.
 The growth of American commerce
 with countries and colonies under the
 British flaq has been steady and In
 the case of certain countries. notably
 Canada. very rapid. In 1905 the 10
 months record of imports from British
 territory was 2S9 million: and in 1911.
 SSS million dollars. an increase of 9i
 million dollars. The 1911 figures are.
 however. slightly less than the total
 for 1910. when the ten months i'm
 ports aggregated 4O5 million dollars. Exports to British territory for cor responding periods of the years named
 meantime grew from 5S3 million dol lars in 1905 to 159 million in 1911. an increase of l76 million dollars The share of the imports into the United States brought from British territory is about 30 per cent: while about
 45 per cent of the exports goes there to; and of the total foreign trade. approximately 40 per cent is with British territory. The term British territory here used includes England
 Scotland. Ireland, Canada. Australia. New Zealand. India and other British East Indies. British Honduras. British Guiana. Alden. Gibralta, the Falkland Islands. Hongkong, British Africa, Newfoundland and Labrador the Brit ish West Indies. and other British islands. To all these, with unimport- ant exceptions. the exports from the United States are larger in 1911 than in 1910 or earlier years
 To the United Kingdom. the largest British market for American products. cur To months exports increased from S95 million dollars in 1910 to 41g mil lion in 1911: those to Canada. next lp rank, the exports in the ten months periods advanced from POI million dollars in 1910 to 249 million in 1911. a figure more than double the total for the corresponding period of 1905 Australia and New Zealand rank third among the British Dominions as a market for American goods with l ten months total of 40 million com pared with 90 million and 21 million In 1905 for like periods. To British Africa the ten months exports in creased from II million in 1905 to F million in 1905 and 13 million in 1911: those to the British West Indies. from S million in 1905 to g million in 1910 and 10 million in 1911: and those to India A million dollars in 1905 to 6ia million in 1910 and 9 million in 1911. The remaining British com munities which show in each case a total in excess of million dollars in the ten months include HOngkong. to which our exports in ten months were valued at million dollars: New fcundland and Labrador million: the Straits Settlements. 1A million: British Guiana, 1I2 million: British i Honduras, 1A million; and Alden and l lars. To Gibralta the total was about 1 s400.600: to Malta. GOza. etc. about | S20O.000: and to British China. the | Falkland Islands. and miscellaneous ! other British possessions as a whole