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UNITED STATES.

Countries Imports Exports


1893 1903 1893 1903





ASIA
East Indies:
 British $25,968,554  $49,774,589  $3,152,760  $4,795,411 
 Dutch 8,696,588  16,277,606  1,183,605  1,194,510 
 Portuguese ...................  28  ...................  78 
 French ...................  10  156,020  131,692 




  Total East Indies  $34,665,142  $66,052,233  $4,492,385  $6,121,691 




Japan $27,454,220  $44,142,562  $3,195,494  $20,924,862 
Chinese Empire 20,636,535  26,769,612  3,900,457  18,603,369 
Turkey in Asia 3,533,197  4,897,428  132,786  276,247 
Aden 2,471,937  2,328,654  ...................  1,508,999 
Hong Kong 878,078  1,355,444  4,216,602  8,780,741 
All other Asia 75,276  212,268  139,039  77,004 
Korea 79  ...................  ...................  171,400 
China:
 British ...................  22,355  ...................  1,670 
 French ...................  ...................  ...................  4,300 
 German ...................  ...................  ...................  ................... 
 Russian ...................  1,665  ...................  681,756 
Russia, Asiatic 381,919  28,230  145,591  802,428 




  Total Asia $90,096,383  $145,810,441  $16,222,354  $57,954,467 








OCEANIA
Hawaii $9,146,767  $26,201,175  $2,827,663  $10,787,666 
British Australasia 7,266,808  6,969,017  7,921,228  32,748,580 
British Oceania ...................  2,087,812  ...................  98,669 
Philippine Islands 9,159,857  11,372,584  154,378  4,038,909 
French Oceania 423,946  579,457  296,208  398,169 
German Oceania ...................  25,442  ...................  120,041 
All other ...................  10,049  ...................  3,668 




  Total Oceania $25,997,378  $47,245,536  $11,199,477  $48,195,702 








AFRICA
German Africa ...................  $29,526  ...................  $6,313 
Italian Africa ...................  2,584  ...................  ................... 
Turkey in Africa:
 Egypt $3,438,925  10,661,978  $128,687  740,375 
 Tripoli ...................  133,524  ...................  ................... 
British Africa 716,376  971,908  3,688,999  33,788,629 
French Africa 309,327  450,690  529,921  410,097 
Canary Islands 39,523  42,547  209,989  815,463 
Spanish Africa ...................  20,404  ...................  29,086 
Liberia 26,002  2,747  26,302  29,086 
Portuguese Africa 28,144  ...................  200,075  2,324,216 
Madagascar 218,196  10,450  642,207  19,278 
All other Africa 1,080,539  173,261  412,507  297,408 




  Total Africa $5,857,032  $12,499,619  $5,838,687  $38,433,131 




All other countries $59,509  ...................  ...................  ................... 




  Grand total  $866,400,922   $1,072,128,364   $847,665,194   $1,453,090,034 








RECAPITULATION
Europe $468,450,093  $550,056,518  $661,976,710  $1,029,587,728 
North America 183,732,712  209,103,220  119,788,889  237,804,405 
South America 102,207,815  107,413,030  32,639,077  41,114,601 
Asia 90,096,383  145,810,441  16,222,354  57,954,467 
Oceania 25,997,378  47,245,536  11,199,477  48,195,702 
Africa 5,857,032  12,499,619  5,838,687  38,433,131 
All other countries 59,509  ...................  ...................  ................... 

Germany, the second greatest customer of the United States, the balance of trade is growing in favor of the United States. The largest export of the United States to that empire is also cotton, valued in 1903 at $84,824,284. Germany depends upon the United States for its supply of lard, the imports of which in 1903 were valued at $15,448,598. Imports of other varieties of pork products have been greatly limited through adverse legislation. Germany is becoming an important market for American breadstuffs. The manufactured products supplied Germany by the United States increased from less than $10,000,000 in 1882 to $54,000,000 in 1902. The chief imports into the United States from Germany consist of chemicals, drugs, etc., valued in 1902 at $16,166,775; cotton goods, $11,071,974; and iron and steel products, $6,161,651. The French tariffs have thrown the balance of trade against the United States. The principal exports of the United States to France are cotton, copper products, wheat, and petroleum. The United States receives a large part of its silk and elaborately wrought goods from France.

Shipping. Foreign. The United States is far in advance of all other nations in the magnitude of its domestic shipping, but in its foreign shipping, when the vastness of its foreign trade is considered, it holds a very low rank. Indeed, American foreign shipping presents a most marked contrast to all other groups of industry in the United States. Whereas, as has been seen above, other industries have had a most remarkable development since the middle of the nineteenth century, American foreign shipping has since that time suffered an extraordinary deca-