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Show TRADE OF OUR ISLANDS. Increased with the I'nlted States I Year to Old Records. Exports from the Umied States to Cuba, Porto Rico, and the Hawaiian, Philippine, and Samoan islands, amounted, in round numbers to $;5,-000,000 $;5,-000,000 in the .fiscal year 1900, and were more than three times as much as in 1896 and more than twice as much as in any year of our commerce with those islands except in the years 1SL2, 1893 and 1894, when reciprocity great- ly increased our exports to Cuba and Porto Rico. To Cuba the total for the fiscal year was, in round figures, $25,-000,000 $25,-000,000 against $7,530,000 ia 1S96, and $24,157,000 in the great reciproc.ty "year 1893. To Porto Rico the experts of the year were, in round terms, $2,-600,000, $2,-600,000, against an average of $2,750. 000 in the reciprocity years of 1892, 1893, and 1S94. To the Hawaiian Islands Is-lands the total for the year was about $15.C0O.CCO, or five times as much as in 1S93, nearly four times as much a3 in 1S96, and more than double the total, to-tal, for 1SS8. To the Philippines the total for 1900 was about f 2,:00.000. or more than in the entire fifteen years since SS5, the date at which the first record of our exports to the Philip-' pines was made by the Treasury Bureau Bu-reau of Statistics. To the Samoan Islands, Is-lands, the . exports of the year were about $125,000, or nearly as much as in all the years since 1S9S. at which date the official records of our exports to those islands began. The total imports into' the United States from Cuba for tfce full year show a total of $31,000,000. against $15-0CO.C0O $15-0CO.C0O in 1S9S and 418,500,000 in 1S97, though they still are less than one half the average for the reciprocity years 1892. 1893. and 1S94, when our imports from that island avers ged over $75,000,000 per annum.' From Porto Por-to Rico the imports of the year are but $1,350,000. whfch is less than the total for any' preceding year since 1SS0, and is due to the destruction by last year's tornado of the crops which supply Porto Rico's chief articles of export. ex-port. From the Hawaiian Islands the imports for the full fiscal year are $21.-000,000, $21.-000,000, or double the average annual importation for the period prior to 1S96, and twenty per cent higher than In any preceding year. . From the Philippines, despite the war conditions which reduce producing and exnorling power, the imports are larger than In any year since 1894. |