Show COTTON TRADE WITH CHINA China a the largest purchaser or of American cottons cotton has hag not bought so ro heavily for two years past as formerly and the Ute market lias hs s suffered according accordingly ly I In common with the tho rest of the world China felt the Ute effect or of the panic and being on a silver basis is finding it doubly hard to recuperate Tho The Im Importance Of the Chinese trade should not be underestimated and so 50 far as cotton cloths are concerned the tIle United States can probably hold hol l it against all comers coolers But there are ar a great mon articles for tor which competition is iten Pen en Ger Germany German Germany many man Great Britain and Japan being i rivals rhal of ot this title country In the Oriental markets With cotton as a basis ballis the tile United States State should easily secure the big end of ot the Chinese trade for cot cotton cotton cotton ton is 18 king in that part of ot the world While consideration of or the figures of ot cotton goods trade with China for sin single gle gl Ie e years is II liable to be misleading be because because because cause of or the great fluctuations in that trade it may be said ld that the growth of ot movements of American cotton cloths cloth to China has hae been in recent years ears much greater gre ter than to other parts of the world The total value luo of cotton cloUt cloths exported to China Chino in the decade ending with 1998 slightly exceeded that thatto thatto thatto to all an other countries df the world corn com combined white w lle in the decade ending with 1898 those to China were ware not more than as great as those to all other parts of or the world In quality and prices the cotton cloths clothe sent rent to China differ considerably from those sent to other parts of the world being e eng ng as a arule arule arule rule heavier goods Intended for the temperate climate of North China the prices however being slightly less the average expert export price of the cottons sent to China hina usually ranging a 8 frac fraction thIn tion of ot a cent per yard lower than the average sent nt to all other parts of the world |