PHILIPPINES — EXPORTS AND IMPORTS ccxlix
There are no official figures obtainable giving the imports for the Philippine Islands. One of the larger importing houses, which keeps statistics of imports and which has practically complete figures of all goods shipped into Manila, has prepared the following table giving the approximate value of imports during the year 1897, including goods imported by shopkeepers and Chinese from Hongkong :
Woven fancy goods (ginghams, grandvills, muslins, regattas,
trouserings, etc.)
Printed gootls (prints, printed grenadines, etc.)
Yarns and sewing thread
Ironware, hollow ware, and fancy articles, known in China
trade as '• muck and truck"
Skirtings, gray cloths, drills (white and twills), crydons, etc Imports from Hongkong
Total
Say, in Mexican money
£380,000 270,000 130,000
230,000 300,000 300,000
1,610,000
$16,100,000
Coal imports amounted to about 90,000 tons. Petroleum imports amounted to about 114,330 cases.
The average value of coal in Manila is $10 a ton, which would make this item $900,000. Petroleum is worth on an average $3 a case, or $3-42,990. Adding these two items to the estimated table of imports gives a total of $17,342,990. Taking these figures as being correct, there is a trade balance in favor of the islands of $23,909,290, that being the excess of exports over imports.
COMMERCE OF THE UNITED STATES WITH THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS, FISCAL YEARS ENDING JUNE 80, 1895-1897
Imports
Quantities
Values
1895
1S96
1S97
1895
1896
1897
FREE OF DUTY
Dollar H
Dollar H
Dollars
Sugar : Cane and other, lbs.
a 3,904,000
(«)
(«)
a 67,200
(a)
(a)
Textile grasses, etc. :
Manila . . . tons
45,865
35,584
88,533
3,572,236
2,499,494
2,701,651
All other , . lbs.
1,106
872
5,450
11,851
68,838
884,155
Hides and skins, other than
fur skins :
Goat skins . . lbs.
8,826
26,182
1,148
9,226
Hide cuttings, raw, and all
other glue stock
5,400
6,(>18
All other free articles . Total free of duty .
DUTIABLE
117
14,814
251
3,657.952
2.599,020
3,086,057
Sugar .... lbs.
04,865,892
145,075,344
72,46:3.577
1,043,806
2,270,902
1,199,202
Oils
6,237
1,820
Straw, manufactures of
26,148
81,352
72,137
All other dutiable articles . Total dutiable Total imports of mer- chandise
3,460
25,346
24,524
1,(»73.414 2,3s;3,8:37
1.297.68;3
4,731,366
4,982,857
4,383,740
a Dutiable after Aug. 28, 1894.
