JULY 27, 1905
S5hs Nob rash a. Indopondont ,
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INCREASE IS SLIGHT
REVENUE FROM CUSTOMS
A DISAPPOINTMENT
IS
While Volume of Imports is Much
Larger Than Last Year the Growth
Has Been on the Non-dutiable Merchandise
The foreign commerce of the Uni
ted States in the fiscal year just
ended exceeds that of any preceding
year, having been $2,635,970,333, in
comparison with" $2,451,914,642 in
1904, the previous record year.
An analysis of the statistics of for
eign commerce during the year end
ing June 30, 1905, just prepared by the
department of commerce and Jabor
through its bureau of statistics, shows
that both imports and exports made
new high records, imports having ex
ceeded by $92,000,000 the total record
ed in 1903, and exports having for the
first time surpassed the figures of
1901. In 1903 imports first passed the
billion-dollar limit, with a total of
$1,025, 719,237; in 1904 they again fell
below one billion dollars in value, be
ing $991,507,500. Exports first rose
above one billion dollars in value dur
ing the fiscal year 1892, but fell below
that limit in the following year, and
so remained until 1897, when the total
was $1,050,993,556. In 1898 the total
exports were $1,231,482,330; in 1900,
$1,394,483,082; in 1901, $1,487,764,991,
a total which was not again equaled
until 1905, when the; figures stood at
$1,518,462,833, not only surpassing
the record made in 1901, but for the
first time in the history of our com
merce passing the one-and-a-half billion-dollar
limit.
Customs. Fall Short
An unusual feature of the statistics
of the fiscal year 1905 is the very
small increase in customs revenue,
despite .the very great increase in
dutiable imports. The year's imports
were valued at $1,117,507,500, as
against $991,087,371 in the preceding
year, an increase of $126,420,129.
The imports of dutiable merchandise
during 1905 were valued at $600,
071,238, as against $536,957,131 in 1904
an increase of $63,114,107. Despite
this fact, however, the customs rev
enue derived from the largely in
creased dutiable imports of 1905 is
less than $1,000,000 in excess of that
derived from the imports of 1904, be
ing $262,060, 518 for 1905, as against
$261,274,565 for 1904. This decrease
in customs revenue is in part due to
the admission of Cuban products, es
pecially sugar and tobacco, at a re
duction of 20 per cent from the regu
lar tariff rates, under the reciprocity
treaty of December 27, 1903, and in
part to the unusually large amount of
dutiable merchandise remaining in
.warehouse at the end of the year
upon which duty had not been paid,
as well as to several other causes
which can not be fully stated until
complete details of the year's imports
are available. -
Principal Increases
Details of commerce for the twelve
months are not in all cases available,
but a careful examination of the com
plete figures for the eleven months af
fords an opportunity to determine the
articles in which the principal in
creases or decreases occur.
n the import side the largest in
creases cccur in the classes "manu
facturers' materials, wholly or partial
ly manufactured," in which the figures
will be about $70,000,000 in advance
of those for the preceding year, and sert."
in "luxuries and other articles of vol
untary use," which seem likely to
be more than $15,000,000 in excess of
the figures of 1904. "Articles of food
and animals" have increased by over
forty-five millions, and "manufactured
articles ready for consumption" have
fallen of about $4,000,000.
The principal articles which showed
decreased importations during the
eleven months ending with May, 1905,
as compared with the corresponding
period of the preceding year were
manufactured, articles, including chem
icals, cotton goods, feathers, fiber
manufactures, glass and glassware,
iron and steel manufactures, metal
manufactures, and wool manufactures.
Tea, cocoa, and vegetables were the
only important food products to show
a decrease, while the importations of
breadstuffs, coffe, fish, fruits and nuts,
provisions (including meat and dairy
products,) spices, and sugar were ma
erially larger than those of the pre
ceding year. Raw and partially manu
factured articles imported for use as
manufacturers' materials show in
creased importations, especially cop
per, cotton, undressed furs, India rub
ber, lead paper stock, raw silk, tin,
unmanufactured tobacco, unmanufac
tured wood, and unmanufactured wool.
Coal importations are about $1,500,000
below the figures of last year.
Volume of Exports
On the export side there is a de
crease of over $53,000,000 in agricul
tural products. The less important
classes, products of the forests and
the fisheries, show a slight net de
crease as compared with 1904.
The articles showing the largest in
creases in exportatlons during the
eleven months of 1905 for wihch de
tails are available are: Corn, an in
crease of $16,000,000, as compared
with the corresponding period of 1904;
copper manufactures, an increase of
$25,000,000, about one-third being in
exports to China, where large amounts
of copper are in demand for coinage
purposes; cotton manufacturers,- an
increase of twenty-two millions, prin
cipally in exports of cotton cloths to
China; raw cotton, an increase of nine
millions (during the twelve months;)
iron and steel manufactures, an in
crease of twenty-three millions; hops,
two and one-third millions; leather
and manufactures thereof, three mil
lions; oil cake and meal, four millions;
oils, mineral and vegetable, five mil
lions; rice, two millions; spirits,
wines, and malt liquors, an increase
of a half million dollars; and wood
manufactures, an increase of less than
a half million dollars.
Much Less Wheat
The principal articles showing de
creased exports are wheat, a reduc
tion of $32,000,000 (twelve month's
figures,) wheat flour,' $28,000,000
(twelve month's figures;) fruits and
nuts, five millions; provisions, five
millions (twelve month's figures;)
and unmanufactured wood, a decrease
of six and one-half millions. The re
duction in exports of wheat and
wheat flour was due t part to the in
adequacy of the domestic crop to
furnish any considerable surplus over
the home requirements amd in part
to unusually large crops in foreign
wheat-producing countries. Exports
from the United States of wheat, dur
ing the fiscal year just ended, have
been even lower thand uring the year
before. In the two foremost European
grain markets, the British and the
German, the leading position has been
taken by wheat of Russian and Ar
gentine origin, wheat imports from
the United States showing unusually
low figures for the period under consideration.
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plied the dear young thing. "I tried
to make bread, but it wouldn't rise
for me, so I just made a nice wine
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