The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1912-01-25
CHINA
Sends More Goods into Thi,
Country Than the Latter
Sends There.

! WASHINGTON, D. c., Jan. 20
Trade OF the United States with
China in the calendar year just
ended Appropriated SO million dol
lars in value, OF which about 23
million represented the value OF ex-
ports to. and 80 million that of i'm
ports from China. Exports to China
show distinct signs of recovery
from the depression which first be-
came pronounced in 1905 and CON
tinued without abatement down to
the end OF 1910. In 1906 our ex-
ports to China rose to the un-
precedented total OF SO million dol
lars; the next year showed a shrink
age of nearly fifty per cent, and the
total for 1906 being but 80 million;
and each succeeding year showed a
smaller total until 1910, when the
figures stood at less than 16 mil
lion dollars, Of So, OO0,O 900 less than
in 1910, a decade ago. The first
eleven months of 1911, however, re
corded a total export to China of 81
million dollars, November alone
showing a total of two million dol
lars, indicating that for the twelve
months ending with December the
total will be fully 23 million dol
lars. Imports from China continue
at practically the same rate as
shown earlier in the year, the esti-
mated total of 90 million dollars for
1911 comparing with 80 million
dollars in 1910, "a million in 1907,
90 million in 1904, and &c million
in the calendar year 1902.
Cotton goods, Illuminating oil,
flour, iron and steel manufactures
and lumber are the principal articles
forming our exports to China. In
that trade. cotton cloths have long
I held first place and for many years
steadily increased until in 1905 they
rose to the high record total of 5G3
million yards valued at SO 1-2 mill
lion dollars, and in 1905 attained a
total of 271 million yards. 1mme-
diately following these unusually
large expectations, however, and as
a result, in part at least. OF eS-
.cessive importations of cotton
cloths into China Immediately fol-
lowing the close of the Russo-Ja-
panese war, there ensued a period
of increasing exports of American
cotton cloths to China and in 1907
the total dropped to So million
yards. A slight recovery began in
1908 and in 1909 the total was 154
million yards In 1910 the total
again dropped to sc million yards,
while last year showed signs OF i'm
provement, the monthly exports in
the closing part of the year being
from three to four times as large as
in the initial months and the twelve
months totals standing at approx
mately 10 million yards valued at
Z 1-2 million dollars.
OF the Illuminating oil the ex-
ports to China have since 1904
ranged between 5 and 10 million
dollars per annum, except in 1906
when the total was about four mil
lion dollars. In the calendar year
1911 the total was about seven mil
lion dollars, compared with five mil
lion in 1910, 9 1-2 million in 1908,
and .. 1-2 million in 1900. To
China our exports in flour, which
fell to unusually small totals in
1909 and 1910, rose to two million
dollars last year, a sum only ex-
ceeded by the high record total of
six million dollars recorded in 1907.
Iron and steel manufactures are also
important factors in our exports to
China, nails and spikes, sheets and
plates, locomotives, and steel rails
being the principal items. Last year
total exports of iron and steel to
that country exceeded two million