A BILLION DOLLAR TRADE inc foreign commerce transacted u nau tor the manufacturers of the I 1 n ed states will amount to more atan u billyou dollars in the calendar a in the nine months ending n 11 september tor which abo depart men of Com and labor a buu ira bureau of statistics has ju announced its figures of our tore gu commerce the import mate fi uffe in manufacturing i to million dollars and i v i of manufactures amounted j 41 millions a total of millions tu 0 months or an average of sa ani li 0 dollois doll dis per bionta or more diun dollars per day for the arins interests alone should anc apor of manufacturers mate bals anu alip exports of manufactures ai similar es durins ahe remainder of the bo otal of manufacturers mate and of manufactures epi 0 O would exceed bac dollars manufacturers inace nala now form diw i aj ony ha of the total tm po w h auit d stales or to be no ai t p cent and dc 11 d torm practically 40 cpr pin if domestic exports c 0 o b more accurate per cent materials torm D i c nt of A total imports and formed but 20 per cent n hi olal domestic manu materials materi alB imported in the months ending ath september 1905 wio practically twice as great n value a m he mouthy of 1890 while manufactures exported in the alna months ecung with september 1905 were practically tour times as great as in tho corresponding sp months of 1890 the figures for the airia months periods of the yeara named being for manufacturers materials imported in 1890 million dollars and in and of manufactures exported in 1890 malliou dollars and in 1905 millions thus th exportation of manufactured articles has grown much more rapidly than iho importation of manufacturers materials suggesting that the exporter s of the country are drawing year by year a relatively larger proportion of their raw materials from our own country the fact however that manufacturers materials now torm a larger proportion of the total imports than in earlier years suggests that the growing requirements of the people or tho united states in other lines aro now being more fully met through homo industries than ever beloro while an analysis ot tho imports now brought into tho country shows that a growing share 0 increasing imports la of articles requiring tor production climatic conditions not exist ing in the united states of tropical I 1 and subtropical sub tropical products alone the quantity brought into the united states from abroad including that supplied by its noncontiguous territory amounted in the fiscal year 1906 to million dollars against less than millions in 1890 and millions in 1870 and much of this Is manufacturers materials such as sndra rubber raw silk hemp jute tobacco cabinet woods chemicals etc other classes of manufacturers materials of which the united states does not supply sufficient for its own requirements quire ments are tin hides wool and many lass important articles while considerable quantities of copper of which the united states Is the worlds largest producer are shipped from the adjacent countries of and canada into the united states where facilities tor smelling smelting sm elting and marketing this biot ement of copper into tho greatest copper producing country of the world the united states