IX. TRADE WITH OUTLYING POSSESSIONS. 



As a result of the war with Spain the United States in 1898 ac- 

 quired possession of Porto Rico, Guam, and the Philippine Islands, 

 while in the same year Hawaii became a part of this country at its 

 own request, and in 1900 two islands of the Samoan group were ac- 

 quired by a partition agreement with Great Britain and Germany. 

 The trade with the Philippine Islands is shown to date in the tables 

 of exports and imports to foreign countries, but the trade with the 

 other possessions has been eliminated from these tables and shown 

 separately ever since their annexation to the United States. 



HAWAII. 



The islands constituting tins Territory, owing to their reciprocity 

 treaty with this country for a number of years before annexation, 

 purchased their supplies of salmon from the United States almost 

 exclusively. In recent years the Territory has imported the following 

 quantities of salmon from the mainland : 



PORTO RICO. 



Of recent years, the following shipments of domestic salmon have 

 been made to this island: 



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