Show PORTO RICO AND PHILIPPINES OUR EXPORTS TO BOTH CONTINUE CON-TINUE A GOOD GROWTH Those to Cuba Remain About Stationary Sta-tionary Hawaiian Export Not Returned but Increasing Washington D C April 8 Exports from the United States to Port Rico and the Philippines continue togrow anl Phippines contnueto Srow To Cuba there Is perceptible Increase In 1901 compared with 1000 To Hawaii the exports are no longer recorded bc causo oC the refusal of exporters to continue their statements since the annexation an-nexation of Hawaii and Its establishment establish-ment usn customs district of the United Slates The latest figures of the Treasury Bureau of Statistics show that the exports from tho United States to Porto Rico In the eight months end Ing with February 1901 were IL03J53 against 2219721 In the corresponding months of the preceding fiscal yearSl 32CGG3 In the corresponding period end Ing with February 1S08 To the Phlllppjnes our exports In Ihe eight months ending with February 1901 were S2767SS1 against 1701103 In the corresponding period of the preceding fiscal year 117021 In ihe same period of the llscal year 1S90 and 3 q 3 in the 1S98 same period ending with February S S S To Cuba our exports for the eight months ending with February of the present year were 17236752 against 17172472 In the corresponding period of the preceding year 10112940 In the eight months ending with February 1899 and 7689323 In the same period ending with February lS S S S b5 To the Hawaiian Islands the exports cannot as already indicated be measured meas-ured for the present fiscal year but there is every reason to believe that they are Increasing as arc those to Porto Rico and the Philippines Inthc eight months ending wilh February 1900 they Increased 60 per cent over the corresponding period of the preceding fiscal year and now that commerce between be-tween theUslnmls ole the United Stales Is absolutely unrestricted It Is not unreasonable I un-reasonable to assume that the figures nave materially Increased The total exports lo Cuba POItO Rico and the Philippines In the eight months ending with February 1001 amounted to2I 300S6 against 521003596 in the corresponding corre-sponding period of the fiscal year 1000 116SG633 for a Ice period In 1899 and 895862 for a like period In the fiscal year 1S9S 8 0 Could the figures of our exports to Hawaii In the present flsciil year be In luded it Js probable that the total exports from the United States to the four Islands or groups of Islands would amount to 36000000 In the eight months under consideration against WOCOOOOO In the conespondlng months of the fiscal year 1900 17000000 for the same period of 1S99 13000000 for the I corresponding period of 1898 nndI 000000 for the same period of the fiscal year 1806 Thus the exports to these islands have trebled since February 1808 have doubled since 1809 and have Increased 25 per cent In the pal year though to Cubathere has been In the past year no material Increase Cubas Importers seem less favorably = disposed toward the markets of the United States at the latest accounts than In the preceding year The latest report of the Insular bureau of the War department which Is In charge of the Cuban statistics covers the nine months ending with September 1900 In that period Cubas Imports were 53 108702 and of that sum 521623059 or 16 per cent came from the United States and 21050239 from Europe while In the I corresponding months of the preceding year Cubas total Imports were 51636 717 o which 28094030 or 50 per cent came from the United Stales and 1 181CCO from Europe The following table shows the exports from the United Slates to Cuba Porto Rico nnd the Philippine Islands In the eight months ending with February In each year from ISOCto 1901 Eight months ending V Phll I Kcbuary Cuba Porto WQ > Ipplncs ISM 5I2S1S 1151417 S2S33 17 5i91TTT > jCfl297 59011 CIHm SOU 1t 1833 I 7fiSO32J li20oW7 691235 J 1EOT 10112I3 1328603 117021 1000 17172572 2219721 1701403 j IDOL 17235752 1205953 1 2707831 C A HAMILTON I I |