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Show UNCLE SAM IS THIRD. Position United States Occupies Among World's Exporters of Manufactures. Washington. Tlio United States now ranks third among the world's exporters of manufactures, according to a monograph on "exports on manufactures man-ufactures In tho United States and their distribution," Issued by tho bu renu of statistics of tho department of cominerco nnd labor. It Is shown thnt not only do tht exports of manufactures now exceed $700,000,000 per annum, nnd hav doubled In value In n single deendo but tho share which products of tho fac tnry form of the totnl exports It steadily Increasing. A comparison shows that In 1880 manufactures formed but 15 per cent of tho total exports or domestic products, while In 1900 they formed 40 per cent. In tho deendo ending with 1905 exports ex-ports of manufactures Increased 198 per cent, while those of Germany Increased In-creased 75 per cent. United Kingdom 40 per cent, and from Franco 25 per cent. |