Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1915-07-29
HAWAIPS TRADE
FOR 10 MONTHS
ENDED april
Shipments to Mainland Gain
SIS, 600, 600; Foreign Com
merce SIumpS Million

| Hawaii has decidedly the long end
of the balance Of trade with the main
land for the 10 months ended with
April last. .:. ~. r.. :... -.
Imports from the states for that pc,
riod amounted to $16,S01 ,621. against
$22, 1924 for the corresponding pc
Rod ended in 1914, decrease of S.
907 1868. .@s:~. - ~ F..
Shipments hence to the mainland
amounted. in the period under review,
to $46,615,452 as compared with $751;
pa, a23 in 1914, an increase Of S14,967,-
72y, or a round fifteen million dollars.
Sugar was responsible for $13,5O6,-
514 or the increase, the value OF this
product this year being $3S, 1865, 4S3,
against $35,058, 1863 in the 10 months
ended last year. That the high prices
of sugar since August of last year are
to be credited with a large proportion
of this gain in value of the export IS
evident from the fact that the ship
ments in the later period, 95S, 523,962
pounds, were 1925 tons more than
in the former period, yet If this ex-
cess were valued at even 500 the ton
1t would account for little more than
half the increase upon the value OF
shipments.
4 Fruits and nuts show gain of ST.
420, 472 M total of $5,790,32S value
for this year. Canned pineapple rep
resents more than the total increase
under this head, the article showing a
value of $5,622,522, or gain of ST.
479,086 over the 10 months in ques-
ton last year.
More than one million dollars of
slump in the foreign trade of the ISL
ands. undoubtedly due to the war, oc-
Cured in the 10 months ended April.
Imports OF $4,833,546 represent de-
cline Of $532,212, and exports of do
nestle products valued at $323,115,
decline of 1881, S15.
Hawaii bought from Germany in the
10 months ended April merchandise to
the value of 1929 700, against $693, 1853
in 1914 for the corresponding period,
a decrease of .$464,068. In April last
imports from Germany were only s377,
against 500, 234 in the same month of
1914. Exports to Germany were s2SS4
in the 10 months of 1915, as compared
with $112,741 in the same period end
ed in 1914. This last April nothing
was received from Germany.
Austro- Hungary, on the other hand,
sent Hawaii goods worth $842I this
year. which is s300S. more than for the
corresponding ten months ended last
year, but trade. with the dual empire
This year is Represented By zero. { 80
Imports from France broke almost
.yen in the two periods compared, $12,-
s99 for 1915 being only 1925 less than
the amount for 1914 Exports from
Hawaii to France we're $27,S39 last
year, in the 10-month period, but
lothing this year.
England sold Hawaii s263, 1857 in the
alter period, an increase of $134,604;
Scotland, $78,S56, decrease of $780,
80; Ireland, nothing, against $14S2 in |
I914-the total shipments from the
United Kingdom being $342,S13 in
1915, against $440,0I1 in 1914 10
months, a decrease of $97,19S net. Ex-
,orts for the later 10 months to Eng
and were $116,446, against $57,021 for
he former period, a gain of $59,425; I
o Scotland, nothing against $5491- /
showing net gain of $53,934 in ex.
,orts to the United Kingdom. Ireland !
,cunted nothing under this head
Following are some of the leading 7
TENS of trade with foreign countries /