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Trade of the United States with its 
- noncontiguous territories aggregated 
_ two hundred million dollars in the cal- 
__endar year 1910, against one hundred 
million in the calendar year 1903, the 
first year for which complete statis- 
tics of this trade are available. The 
figures of the Bureau of Statistics, 
Department of Commerce and Labor, 
just completed, show the total value 
of this trade in the year ending De- 
cember 31, 1910, to be $202,494,343, 
and in the year ending December 31, 
1903, $100,107,234, an increase of 10 
per cent, while the trade with other 
parts of the world was increasing 
about 40 per cent. The territories in 
question are Alaska, Hawaii, Porto 
Rico, the Philippines, Guam, Tutuila 
and the Midway Islands. 
The value of the merchandise 
shipped from the territories in ques- 
tion to the United States in I910 was 
$111,731,031, against $61,876,756 in 
1903. The value of the merchandise 
shipped from the United States to 
the noncontiguous territories was 
$90,763,312, against $38,230,478 in 
1903. ‘The increase in the period 
from 1903 to 1910 was thus 82 per 
cent in the value of merchandise 
shipped from the territories in ques- 
tion io the United States; and 139 
per cent in the value of merchandise 
shipped from the United States to 
those territories. 
The above figures do not include 
moyements of gold and silver. The 
value of domestic gold shipped from 
Alaska to the United States in 1910 
was in round terms 15 million dollars, 
and of foreign gold (presumably from 
British territory adjacent to Alaska) 
approximately 314 million dollars; 
while the value of domestic gold 
shipped from Hawaii to the United 
States in 1910 was about one-half 
million dollars. 
The principal articles forming this 
trade of more than 200 million dollars 
between the United States and its 
noncontiguous territories are in gen- 
eral terms tropical products sent from 
those islands to the United States, and 
fish, copper and furs from Alaska, 
while of shipments from the United 
States to these territories, manufac- 
tures and foodstuffs are the principal 
articles. Sugar and hemp are the 
principal articles coming from the 
Philippines, and as already indicated, 
fish, copper, and furs are the princi- 
pal articles coming from Alaska. The 
quantity of sugar sent from Hawaii 
to the United States in the calendar 
year 1910 was a little over 1 billion 
pounds, valued at 39% million dol- 
E OF THE UNITED STATES WITH 
NONCONTIGUOUS TERRITORIES 
ITS 
1910. 
lars; from Porto Rico, 626 million 
pounds, valued at 26 million dollars; 
and from the Philippines 218 million 
pounds, valued at 6% million dollars. 
Tobacco is also an article of some 
importance in the shipments of mer- 
chandise from the tropical islands to 
the United States, amounting to 1% 
million dollars of unmanufactured to- 
bacco and a little less than 5 million 
dollars in value of cigars from Porto 
Rico; a little less than 2 million dol- 
lars worth of cigars, cigarettes and 
cheroots from the Philippines, and 
about 9 thousand dollars worth of to-~ 
bacco from the Hawaiian Islands. 
Manila hemp from the Philippines in 
1910 amounted to about 8' 2-3 million 
dollars in value. Fruits and nuts 
(chiefly fruits) from Hawaii amount- 
ed to 2% million dollars in value; 
from Porto Rico a little less than 2 
million; and from the Philippines the 
shipments under this general head 
(chiefly cocoanut meat, broken, or 
“copra”) amounted to a little over 
one-half million dollars. 
From Alaska the principal articles 
shipped to the United States were fish, 
chiefly salmon, to the value of 11 1-3 
million dollars; furs, about one-half 
million; copper ore about one-fourth 
million. 
The principal articles shipped to the 
territories in question, are, as already 
indicated, manufactures and _ food- 
stuffs. Tio Hawaii the group “Cars, 
carriages, etc.” amounts to about one 
million dollars, of which about three- 
fourths is automobiles; cotton manu- 
factures, nearly 2 million dollars; 
iron and steel manufactures, 3 3-4 
million; leather and manufactures 
thereof, more than one-half million; 
mineral oils, 114 million; paper, and 
manufactures thereof, one-half mil- 
lion; tobacco manufactures, one-half 
million; manufactures of wood 
(chiefly lumber) 1% million; bread- 
stuffs, 1 3-4 million, and meats, three- 
fourths of a million. 
To Porto Rico the principal articles 
were cars and carriages, one million 
dollars in value, of which automobiles 
formed a little more than one-third; 
cotton manufactures, 4 1-3 million; 
iron and steel manufactures, 414 mil- 
lion; leather and manufactures there- 
of, over one million; mineral oils, % 
million; paper and manufactures 
thereof, over one-half million; soaps, 
nearly % million; manufactures of 
silk, one-third of a million; manu- 
factures of wood, 1 3-4 million; 
breadstuffs, practically 6 million dol- 
lars, and meats, 3 1-4 million. 
To the Philippines, the principal 
articles shipped were cars and car- 
riages over one-half million dollars in 
value, of which more than two-thirds 
was automobiles; cotton manufac- 
tures, 4 1-3 million; against 1 2-3 mil- 
lion in 1909; manufactures of iron 
and steel, 4 million; leather and manu- 
factures thereof, nearly one million; 
paper and manufactures thereof, more 
than one-half million, manufactures 
of wood (chiefly lumber) over one- 
half million: mineral oils over a mil- 
lion; breadstuffs, 1 1-4 million, and 
meats 1% million. j 
To Alaska the principal articles 
shipped were iron and steel manufac- 
tures, 4 1-4 million dollars in value; 
wood and manufactures thereof, 3-4 
of a million; mineral oils, 3-4 of a 
million; tobacco, ™% million; vege- 
tables %4 million; woolen manufac- 
tures over % million; cotton manu- 
factures, over 4 million; explosives, 
nearly 1% million; eggs, nearly % 
million; breadstuffs, 3-4 million; and 
meat and dairy products, over 2 mil- 
lion dollars in value. 
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