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Show TRADE WITH THE ORIENT IMMENSE Larger Growth Than With Any Other Part of the World. WASHINGTON, Dec 25. "No feature of the export trade of the- United States for 1903 has shown a larger growth than the trade with China and Japan," says a bulletin issued by the bureau of statistics of the Department of Commerce and Labor. La-bor. "In the ten months ended with October, exports to China aggregated more than 160,000,000 in value, against 120.-000,000 120.-000,000 In the same month of 1904. Exports Ex-ports to Japan were (46.SOU.OuO, against a little less than $22,000,000 for the same period in 1004. and tl0.0uo.o00 in the corresponding corre-sponding months of 1003." No other cour.tr' of the world to which our exports are sent shows gains approximating ap-proximating these of Cnina and Japan. The growth in exports to China from the United States to especially marked in copper, cop-per, cotton cloth, tiour, sewing machines, locomotives paper, corned beef, manufactures manu-factures of tobacco and lumber, though cotton cloth and copper are by far the most important of these items. To Japan the growth occurred in flour, carriages and other vehicles, raw cotton, agricultural machinery.- sewing machines, locomotives, leather, paper, canned beef, tobacco and lumber. Cotton cloth exports to China in the ten months ending with October sggre-gated sggre-gated In value t27.4OS.t50. against t9,66?,TC7 in the same months of 1904. Copper exports to China are comparatively compara-tively a new feature of our trade with that country, the amount in the ten months ending with October having been Jl 1.326, 407. against $011677 in the same months of last year. The copper is used in making new copper coins. Flour is about the only Important article arti-cle of export to China showing any material ma-terial reduction this year, while manufactured manufac-tured tobacco shows a material Increase. Cotton exports to Japan for the ten months ending with October segregated In value $13.7S4.3?9. against $2,716,521 Inst year. American, cotton is popular with the Japanese spinners because It has a long staple, but the cotton grown in India and China.- which has a shorter staple. Is considerably less in price, and in the years of nigh prices of cotton In the United States, Japan purchases little cotton cot-ton In this country, but draws largely on India and China. |