Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1912-07-16

| Of DOLLARS new
/ RECORD in TRADE
i The foreign commerce of the Unit
ed States made new ano remarkable
record in the fiscal yer just ended
The total value of the merchandise
entering and leaving the country in its
trade with foreign lands and its own
island possessions in the fiscal year
1912 was four billion dollars; the va.
lue OF manufactures exported was
more than one billion dollars; and the
value of non-dutiable merchandise en-
! tering the country was one billion col.
lars. OF this one billion dollars
worth of non-dutiable merchandise en-
tering the country during the year end
ing June 30, 1912, about nine hundred
million dollars worth was from for.
eign countries and one hundred mil.
lion dollars worth from Hawaii and
Porto Rico,
OF the merchandise coming from
foreign countries only (and not in
Guiding that from Hawaii an0 Porto
Rico) $3.50 entered free of duty,
against 44.3% during the entire period
of the Dingley law, 1880 under the
Wilson law, and $500 under the Nc
Kinley law when the admission of
sugar free of duty made the percentage
OF duty-free imports unusually large,
but not so high as that of the year
jr3t ended. In fact, the value of duty
free merchandise entering from for
eign countries in 1912 not only ex-
eeeds by far that of any earlier year,
but also forms larger share of the
total imports than in any previous
years except 1892 and 1894, the open,
ing and closing years of the opera
lions of the Mckinley law. when the
imports Of sugar. free of duty were
abnormally' large.
Imports of duty-free merchandise.
never reached as much as one hundred
million dollars prior to 1873. They
touched the two hundred million dol
lar line in 1880, the three hundred
million dollar line in 1891, the four
hundred million dollar line in 1892,
the FIVE hundred million dollar line in
1905, the six hundred million dollar
line I'M 1907. the seven hundred mil
lion dollar line in 1910. and in 1912
Appropriated nine hundred million
dollars; and the addition of the ner-
chandise coming from our own islands
brings the grand total of non-dutiable
merchandise in the fiscal year 1912 upi
to around one billion dollars.
The principal articles forming the
one billion dollars worth of duty-free
merchandise entering continental Unit
ed States curing the fiscal year 1912
are, according to the latest reports of
the Bureau of Statistics of the Depart
ment of Commerce and Labor, food
stuffs and manufacturers materials.
The food stuffs entering without pay
ment of duty included about one hun
dred twenty million dollars worth of
coffee, approximately thirty-five mil !
lion dollars worth of tea and cacao,
over twenty million dollars worth Of
fruits and nuts, five million dollars /,
worth of spices, and about ninety mil
lion dollars worth of sugar from Por- J,
to Rico. Hawaii, and the Philippines.
The manufacturers worth of hides
and skins; over one hundred million
dollars worth of india rubber and
therefor; about sixty-hve
million dollars worth of raw silk; fif-
tv million dollars worth of tin in bars,
blocks and pigs; forty-five million ool-
lars worth of copper in ore and pigs;
thirty million dollars worth OF hDers.
including hemp. jute and sisal; and
about twenty million dollars worth OF
raw cotton.
OF the more than one billion dollars
worth of manufactures exported DUR
ng the year, those of iron and steel
aggregated about two hundred seventy
five million dollars in value; copper
md mineral oils, each more than one
hundred million; lumber and other
of wood, nearly one hun
lred million: leather and manufac-
.ures thereof. about sixty million; ana
cotton manufactures, about fifty mil
ion. Manufactures exported in the
month of Nav amounted to one hum
Ired eight million dollars for the SIN
lie month and formed $3.50 of the total
domestic exports of that month. For
he full fiscal wear manufactures form
d about 1860 of the total domestic
xnort.
During the 81 months in which the
resent tariff law has been in opera
ion. manufactures exported averageoI
million dollars per month t
nd formed 45% of the total exports. S
)uring the. entire existence OF the a
)ingley law they averaged forty-sl1 e
nillion dollars per month and formed il
10 of the total exports; during tne Fl
ntire operations of che Wilson law c
xport.s of manufactures averaged $
Wenty-two million dollars per- month
nd formed 29Go of the total exports t
nd during the existence of the NC 5
.inlev law they averaged sixteen NIL, C
ON dollars per month ana formed q
lco of the total exports. C
Ieached Oats and Barley. q
Food inspection decision l45: Il