The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-01-04
AMERICAS TRADE
WITH THE BRITISH

over billion dollars worth of
merchandise passed between the
United States and British territory IN
the ten months ending with October
for which statistics have been com
piled. The Bureau of Statistics of the
Department of Commerce and Labor
reports that exports from the United
States to British territory in the
period named aggregated S759,O00,O00
and imports therefrom 1888, 100000,
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 flag has been steady and in
the case of certain countries, notably
Canada, very rapid. In 1906 the ten
months record of imports from Brit
ish territory was $2S9,OOO,OOO, and in
1911 S3S3,00O,000, an increase of
S94,0O0,)00. The 1911 figures are,
however, slightly less than the total
for 1910, when the ten months i'm
ports aggregated $4O5, 100000. Ex-
ports to British territory for CORE
spending periods of the years named
meantime grew from $685. 100000 in
1895 to S759,000,000 in 1911, an in
crease of $176,O0O,OOO. The share. Of
the imports into the United States
brought from British territory is
about 30 per cent, while about ASH
per cent of the exports goes thereto;
and of the total foreign trade, approx
imately 40 per cent is with British
territory The term British territory
here used includes England, Scotland,
ireland, Canada, Australia, New Zea-
land, Indian and other British East
Indies, British Honduras, British
Guiana, Alden, Gibraltar, the Falkland
Islands, Hongkong British Africa,
Newfoundland and Labrador, the Brit
ish West Indies, and other British
islands. To all these, with unimpor-
tant 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 prod
ucts, our ten months exports in
creased from $393,OO0,OOO in 1910 to
$419,0 10000 in 1911; those to Canada,
next in rank, the exports in the ten
months periods advanced from $201,-
100000 in 1910 to $249,OOO,OOO in 1911,
a figure more than double the total
for the corresponding period of 1906.
Australia and New Zealand rank third
among the British dominions as a
market for American goods with ten
months total of $40,500OO0 compared
with $3O,0OO,O0O and $21 100000 in
1905 for like periods. To British
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creased from $11,OO0,0OO in 1905 to
$12,OOO,OOO in 1910, and s13,OOO,OOO in
1911; those to the British West IN
dies, from $S,0OOOOO in 1905 to So
100000 in 1919 and 100000 in
1911; and those to India $4,750,OO0 in
1906 and $6,5OO,OOO in 1910, and
100000 in 1911. The remaining
British communities which show in
each case a total in excess of 81, OOO,-
600 in the ten months include Hong
kong, to which our exports in ten
months were valued at $7000,000;
Newfoundland and Labrador, $4,000
900; the Straits Settlements, $1,75O,-
600; British Guiana, $1,5OO,OOO; British
Honduras, $1,75O,OOO, and Alden and
Bermuda, each about $1,O0J,OOO. To
Gibraltar the total was about $780,
600; to Malta, Coca, etc, about $780,
600; and to British China, the FalIl-
land Islands and miscellaneous other
British possessions as a whole, about
100000