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SUPPLEMENT TO COMMERCE REPORTS DAILY CONSULAR AND TRADE REPORTS ISSUED BY THE BUREAU OF FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC COMMERCE DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE, WASHINGTON, D. C. Annual Series No. 55c December 31, 1917 JAPAN.a By Consul General Geo. H. Seidmore, Yokohama. The total value of imports into all of Japan for 1916 from all countries, including reimports ($714,852), was $377,079,313, as com- pared with $263.160,069 (reimports, $1,385,449) for 1915. As usual raw cotton was by far the principal article of import, which was valued at $137,630,204 ($136,827,172 ginned and $803,032 in the seed). Of the total ginned cotton, the imports from British India were valued at. $82.329.549 and those from the United States $39,- 565,985. Another important item of import is bean-oil cake, which comes practically all from Kwangtung Province and China. These imports were valued at $17,234,382 for 1916 and the quantity amounted to 1,727,079,733 pounds. The following table shows the principal imports into Japan with their value during 1915 and 1916: Articles. 1915 1916 Articles. 1915 1910 Aluminum i n go t s, Cars, carriages, vehicles, slabs, and crains....... $211,279 S1,018,811 and parts of-Contd. Animals: Horses........ 106,750 10,452 IPa rtsof cycles....... $83,248 $192,236 Asbestos: RailJ ay carriages Lump, powder, or and parts.......... 308,.312 149,039 tiber.............. 122,492 40S,8S3 Chemicals, drugs, dyes, Other, including etc.: manufactures...... 63,204 117,554 Acids- Asphalt and pitch ....... 1, 573 68, 795 Boric ............ 90, 41 196, 455 Belting, woven for ma- Carbolic......... 107,101 1,855,659 chinery................ 94,605 124,516 Salicylic......... 71,935 110,516 Bones, animal........... 590.668 666,6.57 Ammon ium- Bookbinder's cloth...... 129,482 154,375 Chloride......... 105, 117 124,968 Bran: Sulphate, crude.. 1,464,344 597,838 Rice ................. 15,387 12,3&3 Calcium acetate...... 157,964 102,112 Wheat ............... 368.631 199,194 Aniline dyes......... l,40s, 096 1,686, 221 Brass, bronze, and man- Cobalt oxide......... 35,314 102, 784 ufactures of: Cocaine.............. 12,$72 2SS,046 Ingots and slabs..... .33,030 7, 155,309 Extracts, tanning.... 599,467 2, 109,6t46 Other, waste or old.. 323,529 469,423 Formalin............ 131,430 170,814 Breadstuffs: (;lycerine ............ 137,726 331, 34 M ilet, Italian or Ger- Gums- man ........ ..... 129,063 6 Arabic ........... 67,129 164,529 Rice ............... 2,433,290 1,539,177 i osin........... 3S2,456 1.162,625 Wheat ............... 16,354 676,010 Shellac........... 130,05S 337,571 Flour ................ 138,050 103,024 Hops................. 1.37,024 176,323 Bricks, fire .............. 21,552 103,794 Indigo, natural ...... 72, 20 271,337 Bristles, pig ............. 293,454 122,059 Opium: Morphine... 1,202,739 1,919,630 Building materials....... 76, 045 217,901 Phosphorus......... 203,621 1S4,807 Capstans and other wind- Potassium- mg machines.......... 68,553 113, 637 Bichromate...... 157,347 366.016 Card clothing ............ 136,332 156,932 Chlorate......... 1,434,427 S76,337 Cars, carriages, vehicles, Cyanide......... I181, 169 323,604 and parts of: Preparations, medi- Automobiles......... 35,202 192, 1S eal................. 32 3.3 196,212 Automobiles, parts o[ 47, 100 162, 834 Quinine and sulphate' 72.592 203, 419 Bicycles ............. 72,627 45,855 Santonin ............ 172, 72 129,377 aA report on Japan was published on August 28, 1917, Supplement No. 55a, which con- tained preliminary figures of the trade for 1910. The tables in this report contain more detailed information not avnilnble at that time. 327180-18-55c--1 SUPPLE11MENT TO COMMIERCOT REPORTS. Articles. 1915 Chemil .l 'Irus. dye.s, w I I. nl l lll l t 'd Soda ash............. S;.N,619 Sodium- Bicarbonate ..... 156,748 Borate .......... 108,803 Caustic soda, crude .......... 625,713 Nitrate.......... 1,613.166 Wax, paraffin....... l,i2.'I i. Other chemicals, etc. 1,626,258 Coal .................... 2,220,149 Coins, fr, icin (except gold and silver)........ 243,304 Copper ingots and slabs. 84,384 Copra ................... 320,584 Cork..................... 233,279 Cotton, and manufac- tures of: Raw................ 108,223,399 Manufactures- ( loths- Ducks, gray. 103,603 Italians and satins...... 957,460 Plushes, vel- vets, etc... 277,815 Shirting and sheot- ing, bleach- ed......... 444,287 Twines and thread......... 101,291 Yarn ............ 85,293 Other cotton manufactures.. 559,525 Drill-, bits, rivets, etc.... 36,559 Dyewoods, crude: Log- woo'l extract .......... 402,011 Dynamite.......... 193,498 Dynamos, converters, etc........ ...... 249,700 Dynamos combined with motive machinery..... 123,568 Egg-, fresh .............. 679,720 l. t I r i, lamps and parts. 91,620 Electric supplies: Sub- marine cables ......... 154,018 En-inLe-, .-L.an.......... 27,122 T, li, i ill ., for paper .jl.,iL ............... 164,712 Yi rt ill i i Bone dust ........... 437,049 Manures ............. 38,705 Oil cake- Bean............ 1i'.. -,591 Cottonseed....... j'j'j, 025 Rapeseed........ 793,154 FiIjter.- and manufac- Iurcs of: Flax, China grass, and ramie ......... 324,714 Hemp, jute, and Ma- n 1 I hemp......... 3, S6, 'J! Manufactures- (.mnri'. bags..... 42,866 Other ............ 26,637 Tissues, including mixtures.......... 167,608 W .,t. or old fibers... 68,414 Fishi, salted.............. 96,202 Fishinii iut .............. 68,099 0oo .i n II' n. e. s ....... 73,438 Gas campressirs........ 64,129 4 i1.i,- irl glassware: Plate............ .. 211,789 Sheet............... 95,062 (;lue.................... I 220,571 IT.,i, a nim al............. ,.;. '.! ll- i. l .. .. ..... .... 52,439 1 fids ind skins: lhuYatl and cattle...1 2, 1..613 O( lher. .. ..... .. .I 2 ,506 Iloutsevhld and 1'ersmal I elfr. 1 ii ('. s. .. lll,660i 1916 $1,843,672 196,442 .:.' l, 1i. 1,465,340 3,083,154 2,835,223 2, 2-'.:., 796 2,111,582 82,333 S. 4,033 1,677,435 297,929 137,630,204 191,367 796,801 232,724 39, 101 160,635 126,118 444,719 115,450 174,207 958,338 195,391 220,286 564,680 317,191 645,388 115, 740 215,549 412,041 120,468 17,.?1."q2 7i.17,'. 736,960 482,138 4,065, 60 166,181 41,728 2.."., 199 200, 160 41,332 101,409 192,320 169,481 28, 922 439 574 482,739 219,457 !.*I 03f6 4, 008.024 443,68(i 191. 292 Articles. Hydraulic presses........ India rubber and gutta- percha ( I I .h .. ... ......... Manufactures ........ Iron, steel, and manufac- tures of: Ferrochromatc and other nonmallVable iron alloys......... Ferromananese..... Ferrosilicon and so- lico-spiegeleisen.... Ore.................. Pig.................. Waste or old......... Mann factures- Pands and hoops Bars rods, T- anotes, etc..... Iil' r -. steam, and parts of.... Chains........... In-ots-Blooms. billets, and slabs.......... Nail. not coated with metals.... Pipes and tlibes.. Rail f r railways. Rihhbons........ Rollers......... Screws.......... Sheets and plates- al-panirpd.. Not catpd wi h metals Other ........ Tiiird,1. rlitfed, -r..i shoi c. of iron and steel.. Wire- Galvanized.. Not coated with met- alq ........ Rods........ Other manufac- tres.......... Ivory: Elephants' tusks.. Lead and manufactures of: In fots and slabs..... Solder............... Tea lead............ Leather and tanned skins: Bull, buffalo, horse, etc le.Il or col- ored .. ............ Roller............. Sheep and *oat...... Solo leather.......... Waste............... Otherskins, etc., and manrifactpres of.... Locomotives and tenders T ooms, weaving......... Machinery and parts, n. s ................. Malt..................... Matting................. Mercury.................. Metals and metal com- positions, n. c. s.: Bars, rods, plates, etc.... ........ Ingots and slabs..... Waste or old......... Metal or wood-working machinery......... Meters................... Milk, condensed......... Minerals, n. c. s.......... 1915 511,568 1,708,933 235, 964 160,142 210,925 123,383 902,532 3, 2 1. 3R2 W t.,.'3 79,181 2,789,716 283,895 104,142 163,199 267. S7.6 607, ?'S 300,485 123,340 70,469 109,589 609,798 3,851,111 117,707 2,386,500 1, 5.i,. 137 190,867 538,213 187,447 91,143 1,4490,200 36,298 161,417 117,645 55,108 440,297 216,391 41,606 269,129 113,710 171,263 1, 051,500 209, 365 201,192 57,560 3,406,120 125,109 4.3,677 14, 566 525,219 393,085 -- 1910 $108, 600 3,612,134 381, 538 101,475 290,698 228,693 833,362 6,876,460- 1,048,607 298,167 11,220,184 G 1, 523 478,570 758,949 2, 094,957 1,653, 332 219,780 289, 802 15% ,043 215, 15 577,544 11,275, 698 229,040 5, C26,723 2,155,696 312,060 2,031,927 336,172 156,221 3,720. AS9 111, "407 201,390 214,203 163,914 .527, 2422 211,92) 101,405 447, 107 60,091 44,007 2, 303, 298 423,210 249,018 037,755 166, 87 3, 738, r ,-: 281,347 889,032 176, 015 5.17,198 JAPAN. Articles. Nickel ingots and slabs.. Nets, endless, for paper making ................ Oilcloth or linoleum..... Oils and fats: Beef tallow.......... Mineral- Benzine......... Crude........... Refined- In can....... Other........ Other............ Vegetable- Castor........... Soya bean....... Volatile............... Other................ Ores, n. 0. s.............. Paints, pigments, colors, and varnishes: Carbon black........ GoHl, silver, and platinum liquid... Lacqucr............. Varnishes............ Marine paints....... Other .............. Paper stock: Pulp...... Paper, and manufac- tures of: Hooks, music, maps, etc................ Japanese and tissue, im itition.......... Packing......... Parchment, imita- tion ............... P'asteboard and cird- board ............ Photo.Traphic........ Printing ........... W rit ing............. O their .............. Paper-mn king machines. Perfumery, etc .......... Philosophical instru- ments and parts of..... Phosphorite............. Photographic films: Plates............... Scnsitived.......... O ther............... Platinum ingots, slab;, bars, plates, and sheets Parcel-post shipments, n.e. s................. Pum ps .................. Rattan .................. Principal Countries 1915 1916 Articles. 1915 191 3797,503 72,469 117,479 660,505 215,569 355,990 2,177,404 2,037,506 630,259 84,818 13 ,0f02 490,411 672, 51 1,028,200 37,276 117,035 37.2,031 SL.701 65,376 970, C00 2,9 5,4b9 213,357 139,144 234,016 51,7:38 87,20S 130,422 550. i.00 147,932 299,844 95,093 60,731 S5, 8091 I,691,46G6 IU.5,791 02,307 91,6s8 82,334 1,074,955 132, 46f 122,117 $1,001,269 110,364 199,590 738,159 154,167 201,838 1,294,520 1,4S2,598 8-o, 103 112,851 55, 3.56 752,662 987,8141 7,223,5'2 120, 709 190, 374 3S1, 63 13 ,q 623 177,603 76t1, 807 4, 495,333 412, 590 2;70,524 ' 413, 1SS 21., 5.37 2.54,501 1'I", 101 430.124 143 93 I 123.409 | 121, ;', i 1,361,2!2 i 22-.,449 137,437 154,42S 355, 630 2.33.2.630 123, 408 162, 0s4 Salt, crude ............ Saws for machinery...... Seeds: Cotton............... Perilla ocymoides... Rape................ Sesame.............. Other ............... Sewing machines........ Shells, Mollusca......... Silk: Artificial............ C ,coons ............. Wild ............ Spinnin"z machines...... Steam vessels............ Straw plaits............. Sugar.................... Tin ingots and slabs.... Tissues, n. e. s........ Tobacco, leaf ............ Tools, mechanics' and agricultural............ Vegetables: Beans- IRed or white.... Soya ............ Peas............... Other............... W atches ................. Watches, parts of........ W ines ........... ....... Wood: Sandal wood, ebany, ctc ................ 'iine, fir, and cedar.. I.,th er ............... Woul and manufactures of: Saerges............... V>uol- T')p............... O ther............. Yarns, including mii'.ures....... Othcrtissues, includ- in, mixtures....... Zinc: lnUjts, slabs, and crains............ . Sheets .............. W\\asre, ar old........ All other articles......... Total............. . Reimports.............. Grand total........ $172,131 74,814 552,526 183,647 2,384,746 654,548 166,554 121, 02 563,505 14S, 59o 918, b60 1,161.711 665,11S 1,312, 163 1.55, 1 38 7,372,937 010, 779 298, 509 393,069 91,761 s829, -46 3,3J2,510 42,554 417, 4-15 245, 515 1:'I, .5, 20;, 819 61, 3, 08 31)1, 874 311,777 1,587,.299 3, 071, 825 12, 151,131 373, 422 111,657 l,.1t,417 157,119 T.S,6'. 4, .Il,.304 $328, 726 124,930 402,174 259,513 1,0693,677 537,497 558, 0S 393,854 1,220,113 72,37S 6.93,362 1,153,096 1,200,658 5, 391,052 131,SSI 6,469,559 ,95,3577 423,707 251,283 122,778 882,616 2, 263,504 85, 158 -122,221; 425,991 215, 24 292, 888 141,095 681, 173 36), 511 2,143,760 4,211,239 12,491,850 1,080,506 251, 396 980,277 22s,,;tiS 427,SS'J 3, 2 7,887 Articles. Aluminum ingots, slabs, and grains.. United States... Aniline dyes........ Germany....... Switzerland..... Value. 81,01S,814 1,018,424 1 1,686,221 1,35,6136 109,552 i Articles. Value. Beans, red and whitci Kw angtung Province...... China........... Beans, soya........ China:.......... SSS2,616 576,629 2Q5, 253 2,263,504 1,671,051 Artiides. Beans soya-Contd. Kwangtung Province...... Asiatic Russia.. Beef tallow......... Chinn........... of Origin of Imports. 26., 774,620 376,3314,161 1,3 ", 149 744,852 263, 160, 069 377,079,313 China furnished over half the coal imported into Japan in 1910, most of the remainder coming from French Indo-China and Kwang- tung Province. Of the sugar, valued at $1,129,608. imported, the Philippine Islands furnished more than half. The United States supplied a good percentage of the imports of machinery, iron and steel, metals, etc. The following table gives the country of origin of some of the principal imports into Japan for 1916: Value. 5428,553 163,900 738,159 674,077 of Origin of Imports. SUPPLEMENT TO COMMERCE REPORTS. Articles. rt.nc ., animal ..... China- ...... United Ptates... A. i-i .i ...... Kw an g t ung Province... United i% n1.- dom....... Brass and bronze in- gots and slabs... China........ Kwangtung Province...... Bristles, pig......... China. ......... Carbolic acid........ United States... Coal................ China........... l-rrn.n Indo- China......... Kwangtung Province...... Cocoons, silk........ China........... Condensed milk..... United States... United King- dom ....... Copper ingots and slabs.............. China........... Copra.. ......... Straits Settle- ments......... Philippines..... Dutch India.... French I n d o - China........ British India... Cotton, ginned...... British India... United States... China.......... Egypt.......... French I n d o- China......... Dutch India.... Cotton in the seed . Straits Settle- ments ........ French I n d o - China......... China........... Dutch India .... Siam........ Cotton italian and satins............. United King- dom .......... Dynamite.......... United States... Canada......... United King- dom .......... Eg is. fresh.......... China.......... ExtrjaCti, tanning: C.tecrii, etc..... United King- dom .......... Dutch India .... United States... S'tr.,,t- Settle- ments........ Extracts, tIr-i in g: Cll -., oak bark, etc........... United States... Australia...... British India.... China........... Hemp, jute, and Manila hemp)...... British dia..... British India.... Value. $666, 657 372,995 107,603 68,405 54,853 50, 917 7 ., ".v. (2 *.' i 1, .' ->', 1,827,31.2 2,111 ,5S2 1,114,863 531,637 431,734 6893,62 682,629 517,198 347,621 168,998 864,033 129, 611 1,677, 435 587,463 204, 141 164,168 92,589 72,218 136,827,172 82,329,549 39,565,985 9,639,3284 4,116,250 684,505 436,149 803, 032 275,932 183,571 170,020 87,357 69,073 796,801 795,957 958,338 713,917 159, 7,4 84,637 564,680 564,113 1,595, 718 472,543 406,667 276,415 .1. l i 513,928 163,781 147,305 129,474 51, ", .2 4,065,960 2,399,681 1,225,858 426,151 Articles. Hides and skins, buffalo and cattle. China........... United S I Is ..- Kwan tn g Province...... British India... Straits Settle- ments ........ India rubber and gut t-i-p.rrch" ri i-le Sir' t r '.r lc- meits......... British India .... UnitedKin"dom Dutch India.... United States... Iron bars, rods, T- an-les, etc........ United States... United Kingdomn China........... Sweden......... Germany....... Iron in-ots, blooms. billets, and slabs.. United States... UmU teI Kin-.l.nm Sweden ......... Iron nails, not coated with metals....... United States... United Kingdom Iron ore............. China........... Iron, pig ............ China........... British India.... Kwanetung Province...... United Kinzdom United States... Sweden......... Ironpipesand tubes United States... United KiLn;lom Iron sheets, not coated with metals UnitedI itate;.. Unire?.l Kn iotin" Sweden......... Iron, waste or old.. British India.... United States... Dutch India .... China........... Kwangtu n g Province ..... UnitedKingdom Iron-wire rods....... Sweden......... Unite I .tates.. United Kin.iomi Iron wires, galva- nized............. United States... U united Kingdom Canada......... Lead ingots and slabs............. Australia....... United Sr ite-... China .......... Leather, sheep and goat ......... ..... n Ii. i lu itU .... Mercury............ Unii,.1lKinalorn i.'h u .......... Italy ........... Metal or woodwork- in: machinery.... United States... UnitedKingdom Value. $4,008,024 3,344,943 432,561 78, 195 64,557 56, 637 3,612,134 2,476,694 741,351 239,467 82,361 67,213 11,220,184 8,093,996 2,069,665 377,241 344,407 172,609 758,949 428,933 271,919 57,999 2,094,957 1, 941, 879 89,330 833,362 818, 271 6,876,460 2,506,724 1,801,188 1,207,089 1,050,073 176,672 121,426 1,653,332 1,316,478 318,716 11,275,696 6,013,324 5,060,651 106,865 1,048,607 273,263 199,551 111, 598 105,052 80,290 58,001 2,031,927 1,201,265 761,926 68,735 2,155,696 1 892, 709 182,707 50,243 3,720,089 1,745,264 1,641,438 261,380 527,242 486,716 637,755 219,956 163,067 126,088 100,843 889,032 808,592 66,805 Articles. Mollusca shells...... Australia....... Dutch India... Straits Settle- ments......... Nickel Ingots and slabs ............ United Kingdom United States... Oil cake bean ....... Kwanetu ng Provinee...... China........... Asiatic Russia.. Oil cake, cottonseed. China........... Oil cake, rapeseed.. (C 'i .1a .......... I1i:ri'h India .... Oil, kerosene or pe- troleum, other than in can....... United ii . Dutch India.... Oil, volatile......... France.......... Unite I Kingdom United States... Switzerland..... Opium: Morphine.. United King- dom ......... United States... Ores n. e. s ......... A.stralia ....... China ........... French Indo- t hina........ British India.... Peru ........... AsiaticRussia.. Paper, printing (weighing more than 58 grams per square meter)... United King- dom ....... . United States... Parcel-post ship- ments............ United King- dom.......... United States... China........... Kwangtung Province...... Phosphorite........ Put I. -iirn, chlorate. United States... United King- dom.......... France.......... Pulp................ Sweden......... United States... Canada......... Rice............... Siam............ French Indo- China......... China.......... Rosin............... United States... China........... United King- dom .......... Rapeseed........... China........... British India.... Sesame seed........ China........... Kwangtung Province...... S'orges (marked C).. United King- dom.......... Value. $1,221. 113 451,3716 315,246 284,800 1,01i,20)i 721,316 276,923 17,234,382 9,741,924 4,246,623 328,439 707,699 73i, 1i)ti 398,655 332,481 1,482,598 I, 1)nI. .*22 2'92,375 752.ir.2 27 .,4 4 173, -'.') 141 616 67,644 1,919,630 1,850,054 53,873 7,223,582 3. 9 ",:9.' 2!, 2. 1 . 1,164,096 3t2,310 234,609 214,299 99,4669 769,931 206,166 2,382,630 1,009,703 473,6 ; 427, 2011 304,756 1,361,212 87q.337 426, NN2 19, 295 155, 6i5 4,495,333 2. 40, 166 6011, 779 327,156 1,539, 177 1,261,517 171,278 76. P8'0 1, 162, 62' 941,2711 123,144 82,194 1,693,677 1,641,431 50,931 !.37,497 .,9, 521 135,603 951,279 939,154 JAPAN. Articles. Serges of wool and cotton mixture (marked C). United King- dom .......... Sheep's wool (top).. Australia....... United King- dom.......... Sheep's wool (other than top)......... Australia........ China........... United King- dom .......... Soda ash............ United King- dom .......... K w an g t un g Province...... Soda, caustic, crude United States... United King- dom .......... Soda, nitiate of, crude.............. Chile............ British India.... Spinning machines.. United King- dom ........... United Stnte;... Frine .......... Steam t'oilers, and parts of .......... i'nited King- doam.......... United States... France.......... Value. $830,108 806,26.5 4,211.239 4,007,089 189,945 12,491,850 11,3S5,1655 993,127 89,1 427 1,8,13,672 1,4-14,061 251,8 850 1,46.9,340 1,24,00'l1 217,098 3,0.1, 15.4 3,022,070 54, 8.50 1,200,658 1,009,097 97,445 92,023 GS1, 523 502,799 i), 39:. 59,733 Articles. Steam vessels (over 10 years old)...... United States... Kwangtung Province...... United King- dom .......... China .......... Asiatic Russia.. Sugar (under No. 11 D. S) ............. Philippines...... Dutch India.... Hongkong ...... Sugar (under No. 15 D. S ............. Dutch India-... Plulippines..... longkong ...... Sugar (under No. 18 D. S) .......... Dutch India.... Philippines..... Sulphate ot am- mniani, crude...... United Kinz- dom .......... K w a n g t u n g Province...... Anstralia....... Rus's a .......... Submarine cabl'es... United King- dom .......... Tin ingints and slabs Straits Settle- mentt ......... China........... Value. 55,276, 81 4,351,607 700, 393 87,793 C.9,790 67,298 1,129,G08 792,RS6 255,339 72,374 4,-3.31,04.3 3,34S,g1:0 i 814,496 167,912 991 251 645, 413 3.51,775 597,y.3S 25 I, 873 141,773 116,774 8-,41S 645,:588 645,389 S.93,577 730,276 112,4,30 Articles. Tinned plates of iron and steel.......... United States... United King- dom....... Wax, paraffin (melt- ing point below 45 C. 1 ......... United States... United King- dom .......... Wasx, praifin, ot I( r British India.... United States... Dutch Inia .... W heat. .............. China........... K a ang tu n g Province ...... W ild silk........... China........... Kwangtung Prov ine ..... Worsted yarns...... U rlted King- dnm .......... Zinc ringot.s and slab; .............. China.......... United States... Kwangtung Province...... Indo-China.... Value of Principal Exports. Raw silk constituted nearly 25 per cent of the exports from Japan during 1916. Among the other important exports are yarns, silk goods, cotton cloth, metals and minerals, braids, matches, buttons, tea, paper and manufactures of, coal, toys, glass and glassware. pot- tery, imitation Panama hats, etc. The value of the principal exports from Japan during 1915 and 1916 was as -follows: Articles. Agar-agar................ Aluminum manufae- tures................... Antimony and manufac- tures of: Antimony ........... Manufactures........ Bamboo and manufac- tures of: Bamboo............. Baskets.............. Basket trunks or bags............... Mouthpiecesfor ciga- rettes............. Bools and shoes......... Bracelets............... Braids: Hemp.............. Straw................ Wood sharins ...... Brass and yellow metal: Plates and sheets.... W ire ............... Brass manufactures.. Bronze manufactures Breadstuffs: Oats................ I 1915 $849,620 272,214 3,838,296 406,.S35 198,32:3 394,669 92,621 52,490 4,281,653 281,286 5,987,830 878,274 169,335 326, 442 127. 595 228,312 85, 4s2 :,X,, ;79 1916 3SI,219,761 114,861 4,724,049 479,253 220.669 533 103 115,647 110,595 1,764,132 731,614 6,2.91,911 1,517,135 2,730,071 4,016. 133 202, 16'4 1, 44.3, r',S 13.3, 3'i"1 41,29'i1 Articles. Breadstuffs-Continued. Rice- Husked.......... Unhusked....... Wheat flour......... Other flours, me*ls, etc................. Brushes: Clothes.............. H air ................. N ail ................. Tooth ............... Uther................. Bulbs, lily............... Buttons: Copper anti brass.... Horn and bone....... Shell................ O ther................ Carpets, rues............. Cat'.ut ................... Cement. 1'ortland ........ Ch.'rco.il.................. Chemicile driv.s, and dyes: Aci.l, uilphuric...... Blen'chlinv powiler... I ';1inrn ih r ...... . 1915 1916 $1,311,560 3,497, 531 955,764 532,307 13.3, 20)5 75')1, 202 '15), f,37 76 ., 03:5 7.-, 131' 3s7, '1S ;,. 431 M,. 7 1. 7.'7,4 147 I1, '1127 475,,0.30 112,446 1,227,71.5 112.533 2-if. 057 I. 7(.. ;5t $2,581,751 2.995.246 1.129,654 2,470,432 13'1, 339 1.,r 3, IS2 211, R37 1,012, 537 SMS-, 'q 3 1r, 1,33 14 529 14', 877 3,031,921 416,912 1,082,237 150,332 1,355,515 114,267 ..6; "'.12 -*!',i 5191 ;, 1 14, 1'ils Value. $5,026,723 2,975,-111 2,010,229 G69, )04 506, -1429 62.960 1, IG', 419 60t, 361 2S5, 331 240,170 676,0ll1 557,817 92, 6-"5 1,1 : 09 782,085. 371,011 721,95S 706, 249 Q 1i, 277 137,661 6S, 469 64, 51 SUPPLEMENT TO COMMERCE REPORTS. Articles. Chinrmjei., drugs, and dyes-Cont in ued. Dried plants for man ufacturing g insectifuge......... Ginseng............ Insect powder....... M ron lIdn. tli... . i[ it T *rn i Il ,I .. . Sulphur............. Other drugs, etc..... Clocks ................. Clois, sandals, etc.,n. e. s. Coal: Dust................. Lump............... Combs, wood, shell, etc.. Copper: lnots and slabs..... I I i., and sheets.... W ire......... Coral, worked or crude.. Cotton manufactures: Cloth- Cambric, Tur- key-red ...... Crepe, exceeding 20 inches width Drill and twilled shirtings...... Duck........... i lannel- Exceeding 29 inches width .... Not exceed- ing 29 in- ches width Nankeens, imi- tation......... Shirting and sheeting- Uray......... IV hite....... Tissue, striped... T-clAth.......... Other cloths..... Beduing............ i1j I lI .......... ,'i.- :,inJ braids, plaited........... Handkerchiefs...... Thread............. Thread for lace...... Towels, Turkish, honeycomb, etc.... XX aduing............ \, aste cotton....... N\ hearing apparel- Undershirts and drawers- I rpe........... Knit........... Yarns- Below No. 20.... Over No. 20..... Electric wire, insulated.. Embroidery and drawn work: Tablecloths, darned or drawn work..... Tissues, darned or drawn work....... 1' rn : ,..r ....... .... i ri 1 1i : Artificial........... I hosphate........... Other ........ Fish: Dried- JBuche de mcr.... Cod............. Cuttlefish........ S369,535 146,063 63,411 ?.1 ?, "''ql I,,.,.'.4 1,238,842 2, 105,048 515,399 227,809 1,432,486 8,147,401 128,278 22,043.620 719, 883 235,817 167,628 97, oll 665, 100 5,301,340 305,044 449,946 484,990 2,665,341 6,745,468 420, 7i7 169,414 972,091 ,h., ,, ., ;lIj, .99 241, 95 70,297 67, 1409 230, 3,1 202,445 1,016,558 141,8t.4 414,519 456,030 5,337,327 24,951,875 8,021,207 448, 086 691,003 i., n .1 ., 206,067 561,061 514,220 28S, 973 199,981 1,334,261 $359,063 196,068 %I 4u 161 I. *," 4 '; 6, 856, 528 591,237 562,405 1,510,745 8,661,630 235,856 32,960,375 466,747 1,472,647 191,236 427, 147 1, 525,406 6,549,783 722,386 1,200,857 1,859,962 2,971,502 9,220,852 930, 6 8 781,4i7 1,343, 256 1,5ou, 160 530, 128 718,420 206,703 289, ; 63 723, 493 38,; 91 1,628,330 253,520 822, t63 721,057 14,373,941 27,982,193 10,697,346 561,128 1,036,915 685,671 298,966t 165,692 1,620.813 271,121 109.1531 3560, 54 1, 52, I7') Articles. Fis h-Continued. Dried after boiling- Bonito.......... Sardine .......... Other........... Fresh................ Preserved........... Salted- T i, i ........... Shark's fins.......... Shellfish- Dried- Albalones.... Scallops..... Shrimps and prawns.... Other ........... Preserved- A bal,)nes.... Crab meat... Fuo.iiulTb., n. e. s....... Fruits: Apples.............. (,ranq, .. mandarin.. S'ih'r ruit.. and nuts Furs.................. Glass and glassware: Beads and balls..... Bottles and flasks.... Cups............... Mirrors............. Tableware........... Other.............. Grains and seeds, n.e. s.. Hats, caps, and bonnets: Panama bats, imita- tion ............... Straw.............. Other............. Hides, skins, etc., and manufactures of....... India-rubber tires....... Inks...... .......... Iron, and manufactures of: Pans and rice kettles. Tubes.............. N\ astc or old iron.... Other.............. Jeweiry.................. Jute, etc.: ('Cri.isgo and rope.... i,uninr bags......... L. n'iii, r,.l ware......... Lamps, and parts of.... Leather, and manufac- tures of: Leather............ Manufactures-Belts, beating and hose... Machinery and parts of: Electrical and parts of........ ..... l.'laihjii.; l\ n :\ ilEg. and parts of ....... Tol-., iimudihg agiri- cultural........... Other............... Matches: S'iftv................ )I Itr ............... Mats and mattings: Piece................ Single mats ........ Metals and minerals, II. e. s.: Me Ials........... Metal manufactures. Minerals, and manu- factures of......... Net, fishing.............. Oil: Animal-Fish and whale............. Mineral.............. fl, 67g ISt 1, i-1 121,001)7 In1',..39 702,639 193, 153 110,878 190,810 501,686 239,723 41,229 81,275 786,233 2h1, U96 264,380 I,", ..;'*.9 17 .;:.2 60,153 226,261 877,597 428,476 292,351 107,776 948,108 788,203 1,389,830 79,500 178,296 2,132, 245 1,699,489 90,461 32, 7S0 99,065 If6, 008 1,467,127 63,624 107, 839 16-,519 281,602 1,115,717 384,396 38,977 2i9, 7.1 479,474 100,929 674,696 5,411 635 1,917,474 441,734 694,110 3,573,568 595,266 213,132 101,302 1,113,616 173,382 $110, 230 147, 709 139,750 127,070 434,677 347,204 139,986 214,333 W6, 440 277,170 50, 133 133,818 1,647,705 486,059 199,039 5"11, ":23 118,799 271,107 480,167 1,848,04 986,342 .. .', ill 7 193,883 1,067,172 742,287 2,720,036 179,762 422,016 1,194,807 2,032,025 168,939 172,027 461 815 177, 188 4,661,028 226,646 194,250 119,551 549,642 2,540,664 833,419 127,270 721.291 819,510 152,952 2,233,940 8,062,758 2,4.7, I'11 428,609 998,794 14,270,216 398,235 588, 015 312,372 1,687,213 1,443, 47. JAPAN. Articles. Oil-Continued. Vegetable- Camphor ........ Colza ........... Pepprrmint..... Soya bean ....... Other............... Ores, n. .............. Paints, dyes, etc., n. e. s. Paper and manufactures of: Paper- European- Printing..... Other....... Japanese- R ice and t is- sue papers. Packing..... Pasteboard.. Other....... Manufact ures- Blank and note books.......... Books and mnaga- zines.......... Labels........... Mouthpieces for cigprettes...... Napkins......... Other. ......... Parcel-puost shipments... Pencil- ................. Pottery.................. Purses: uVith frames......... Other ........ ...... Salt .................... Scientifie instruments: Philosophical ....... Other .............. Screens................. Seaweed................ Silk: Cloth- Cr npe ............ aliirai-- ricitrel .... Plain ....... Ponge"l. silk and col ton ......... Satin- Silk and cot- ton ........ Taffeta......... Other, including cot ton mixi- tinres.......... Clothing- Handkerchiefs ... Kimonos........ Nightgowns..... Other manufactures Cocoons ......... Floss ............ Knubs........... Raw- Doupion......... Steam filature, over 12 denier. Steam fi at ure, up to 12 denier... Other ......... Spun yarns...... Waste............... Slippers................. Soap, toilet.............. Soy................... .. Spirits, wines, etc.: Beer- Pint bottles..... Quart bottles.... Sake................. Water, mineral...... 1915 $15.9,74.5 1,442,363 317,25s4 127, 1 16 261,544 467, 054 833,183 731,677 119,524 12q, 715 47,642 211,127 908,451 59,852 201,79S 82, 55.3 100, 587 94 ..5141 4".S, 603 6,4S,94-.- 94,173 3, 462, 571 59,004 7..,082 220,740 24, ',61 250,292 104,035 971,,.179 3.34,936 95-, 05.. IS, 2-13. 2S 2S2,6 i 1 327,544 359, 4S7 446,669 371,254 1,360, 941 330,340 359, 48 199,392 330,911 231,175 792,755 127,831 74,637, 103 964,264 1,071,473 2,171,106 59,534 G12,140 491,596 119,193 583, 088 884,207 111,208 1916 $153,675 1,& 876,9 30 420, 987 459,264 2,515,205 1. 186,534 1,992,0A14 2,32S,047 601,366 1Q, fi12 177, <.35 491,6 .0 1, 052,:.17 154,598 245,611 181,.3.56 103. 076 14 ;, 860 1,418,070 17, 280, 141' 622, 304 6,002, 11 S 177, 552 206,619 267,212 171, F04 413, 193 124,04:3 1,226, f,33 1,41?,219 I S09, 664 19,766. -.29 986,363 S02,427 130. 010 412.,415 578,593 2,156,099 477, 887 430,121 217,306 410,692 1,280, 837 1,4S3,1S5 171,491 131,071,406 1,801,592 73,263 850,940 3,741,325 178,397 ,39,359) 55.3,515 209,434 1,157,519 1,012,138 128, 522 Articles. Sugar: Refined ............ Rock e3nrty. ... Ot hr sugar and con- ieetrioneries........ Suigical instruments.... Tablleclths, n. e. s...... Tea: Black............... D ust ................ r-ireen- lasket fire ...... Pan fire ........ Other............. Telephones, and parts of. Tissues. n. e. s-.: St(,:kinet a n d iunittcd............ Other .............. Tobacco: Leaf .......... ...... Cigarettes........... Toilet preparations: Powder.......... Perfumed waters and hair oil....... Tooth powder and paste............. Other............... Toys..... .............. Trunks and hand bags: Baskets- W illow ......... Rush............ Cloth l ............... Leather. ........... O their .............. Twines, cordages, and raw in teri.ilot ...... Umbrella; jiid p'irasols: Europea.n- (".tton .......... Silk ............. Jap ncese............ tilmbrella sticks and h ndlI-; ............... V\ee i l.]ec, etc.: Bej is. ;idncy....... Chillie dried...... linger, dried........ Mushrooms, dried... Onions ............. Peanut _u ............. Peas ............ ..... Potatoes ............ Preserved........... Other ............... Vehicles: Jinrikisha .......... Other, and parts of.. Vessels: Steam .............. Other.............. Wax, vegetable......... Wearing apparel, n.e. s.: European clothing... G;arters.............. G loves............... Kimonos............ Neckties and scarfs.. Sashes............... Shirts ........... ... Socks................ Other............... Wood, and manufactures of: hoardIs for tea 'ox'es. Furniture........... M natcli slicks.. ....... Railivay lie ......... Wool shavings for match boxes ....... Other lumber, etc... Other maniuf'ctures. 5 1916 7;, 49.3S'; 71,193. 09, 21;5 105, 783 269,391 M12,204 141, 1t3s 1, ,;4,323 5,09 ',. 13 40,164 2129) 51, 1,57 1,522,6;31 80, 7.3S 9, 100 56,514 169,7,30 SS,404 12n, 4q2 2,257,676 102, 2.66 22.S,271 .;,6,297 11b, 6276 104,050 6113, 19.3 742, S.3 16,947 52,227 209,999 2,321,72z 12.1,56,6 141.'J17 652, 433 2Lb. 974 45:.7. 872 1, h31, 171 221,522 274.273 436,307 129,015 276,217 19, 473 :i12, 299 579,532 41i, t.59 230, 311 107,0310 40,, 972 133,051 163,91 1 ",0,618 712,41364 3.-0,75S I. 1 'I'l. 1) 12 I I1', 59% .1', I 2 1-1s. 9 1.15..S53R 2, 02-4. 62.5 irt.dg.4 $.,. 1s3, 23,; 2143,362 259,6 1 40', 794 407, 77 l,521,297 234, 13. 1, ?07,500 4,363,654 55, 281 416,727 206, 90 2,371,210 140,379 190,171 105, n"13 37j,7.52 16q,273 20S, 947 3, $0, 250 231,161 349, 116 150,953 337,051 192,457 1, 4103,976 1,025, 95 63,294 57,410 348,50,3 3,369. 19q 27.3, 16i2 212, 851 ,"25,225 311, 226 4;11,071 3,924,723 267,911 391,673 539,300 170,231 S04,395 5r3, 543 20, 56 S6.5, 17 7S 1,027 34S,.541 917,464 591,t634 ISs, 761 400,43., 149,952 1,0.30,350 .,33,960 1.379,122 200,482 :,S6,074 759, OG2 125,983 3,436,026 723,562 SUPPLEMENT TO COMME'ICE REPORTS. Articles. 1915 1916 Articles. 1915 1916 Wool...inl manufactures Zinc ore................. $179,666 S9U1, .7 of: All other articles......... 5,341,591 4,449,300 Blankets and blan- keting of wool, or Tot l.............. 31?5,74,789 556,697,116 cotton and wool... $94,414 $265,982 Reexports .............. 1. hi',095 5,345,741 Mounseline de laine.. 671,948 1,355,144 Cl..i and serges.... 8,051,914 2,890,116 Grand total....... 352,736,884 362,042,8.37 Yarns ............... 407,202 770,123 Other cloths......... 2i' i, ,4 179,307 Destination of Exports. The United States took a large pelceliage of raw silk exports, imitation Panama hats, porc-elain and earthenware, unhnisked rice, both black and green teas, kidney beans, antimony, camphor, hemp and straw braids, calza oil, rice, toys, etc. The principal destination of Japanese exports during 1916 was as follows: Articles and coun- tries of destination. A p.r-' -. r........... I l .lr , L tSLed States... Dutch India.... United King- dom .......... France ........ H-,.nL ,.nq ...... Asiatic Russia .. Straits Settle- ments ........ Antimony......... United Ftates... Asiatic Russia.. United King- dom.......... Franc........... Russia.......... Bast ets, bamboo.... United States... Beans, I idney ...... U1it' 1I States... France......... United King- dom .......... Canada......... Beer (in quart bot- ties) ............. British India ... China........... Kwangtung PJr.nince..... Dutch India Straits Settle- ments........ Boots and shoes..... Asiatic Russia .. China........... Bracelets........... British India-.... Braids, hemp....... niit d :-lates. .. United King- dom .......... France.......... Australia....... Canada......... Braids, straw....... United States... United King- dom .......... I rn ic. .......... Brass and yellow metal, plates and sheets............. Asiatic Russia .. Value S 1,2l., .l1 ".1 21 174,917 156,811 144,211 109,914 67,273 50,0.25 4,724,049 2, 1S5,576 1,951,891 333, 552 110, 69 79, A10 533,103 383,207 3,369,198 2, 170, 773 829,489 204,335 130,970 1,157,549 426, 104 277,891 140,411 103,012 100,875 1,764,132 1,332,200 314,361 734,614 696,469 6,281,911 3,L07,1l.7 2.297,966 7.K, 9M1 98,184 68,822 1,517, 135 776,953 512, q0q 166I, 161; 4,016,13.3 3,007,005 Articles and coun- tries of destination. Brass and yellow metal, plates and sheets-Co,wid. II. n:' n2...... British India... ( hina........... Russia ........ Brass manufactures. Asiatic Russia.. Australia ..... Dutch India.... Britis1h India.. llT.n.:l.ng ..... h bin.i. ........ Brushes, hair....... United States... United King- dom ......... .! ustralia....... Canada......... Brushes, tooth...... United btates... United King- dom .......... China........ Australia....... Canada......... Buttons, shell...... United King- dom......... United States... British India.... Australia....... Philippines..... Fr:ancri ........ Canada........ China.......... Argentina ...... [,Dut hIndlit .... Camphor..... .... United tStates... British India.... United King- dom ....... Asiatic Russia .. France....... Carpets: Flower mat United King- dom .......... China........... Cement, Portland... Dutch Inli ..... riti.h tril .. Value. $398,593 327,860 95,401 56,9.;5 1,443,9 90 970.407 105, sl 73.95A 73,41 R 60, r,8S 59,102 1,09.1, 182 451,798 380,151 81,516 72,004 1,012,537 445, 183 162,407 110,156 65,637 59,478 3,031,921 853,484 771,623 286,603 241,717 146, 42.3 137,020 135,1 27 115, 461 59,3 2 59,438 3,134,466 1,557, 812 777,424 295,900 201,983 193,055 99, 794 520,890 194,4541 92,307 1,2 1 ,. '1) 12, 1,*J'2 291, 137 166,144 Articles and coun- tries of destination. Cement, Portland- Continued. Kwangtung Province...... China.......... Straits Settle- ments ........ Cir.ci .............. China........... United King- dom.......... ilongkong...... Clog., -:nd.,. etc... Australia....... United Kingdom Canada......... Kwangtung Province...... Clothin.:. European. United States... Kwangtung Province...... United Kiu-:dom ClI lhin :. Kimorii.s. olhei thin silk.... United States... Australia....... Coal................ China........... Iunekon. ...... Straits Settile- Inentq......... Philip[pine ..... Dutch India.... l -i .aii ......... Asiatic Russia.. Fren'ch Indo- China......... Australia....... British In ia.... United States... Coal (dust).......... C(himn......... ion :kong ...... French Indo- China......... Coprp'-r -nios and slabs ............. Asiatic Russia.. United Kingdom 'ran .ce........... United S'ltes..., China.......... Copper wire......... I 'l na........... Urit-h In'dia.... Value. $146,330 144,233 138,72 591,237 189,645 176,067 63, 104 562, 105 104,470 104,221 69,252 55,570 784,027 398,204 85,461 75,208 584,634 346,335 82,007 8,661,630 2,271,821 2,046,853 1,582,403 1,320,983 437, 676 3,' ), .)97 174,030 110,439 86,133 78,408 55,193 1,510,745 992,916 422,552 61,423 32,960,375 19, 5.7, i3%. 8, 3',043 2,502,950 1,522', .3 12.2R6 1,172, 47 589,831 1S5, 753 -- JAPAN. Articles and counm- tries of destination. Copper wire-Con. Kwangtung Province...... Prance.......... Hongkong...... UnitedKingdom Cotton blankets and blanketings....... British India.... China........... Hongkong ...... Cape Colony and Natal..... Cotton crepes....... United States... Australia....... British India.... Dutch India.... Philippines ..... Cotton drills and twilled shirtings.. China ........... British India.... K want ung Province...... Hongkong...... Asiatic Russia.. Cotton ducks....... Australia....... China........... Asiatic Russia.. Hongkong...... United Kingdom Cotton flannels, ex- ceeding 29 inches width............. China........... British India .... Australia....... Cotton flaunels, not exceeding 2'1 in- ches width........ Dutch India.... China........... British India.... Hongkong...... Straits Settle- ments ......... Australia....... Cotton nankeens, imitation......... China........... Kwangtung Province...... Cotton shirtings and sheeting, gray.... China........... British India.... Kwangtung Province...... Australia ....... Cotton shirtings and sheetings, white... China.......... British India .... Cotton tissues, striped ............ British India.... China ........... Dutch India.... Kwangtung Province...... Hongkong...... Cotton T-cloth...... China........... Hongkong...... Kwangtung Province...... Cotton thread....... China.......... Dutch India.... Hongkong...... British India.... Value. $168,156 152,573 93,912 213,001 718,420 185,761 129,408 114,067 82,814 1,525,406 651,186 295,757 131,026 115,422 65,664 6,549, 783 5,016,951 1,005,553 314,856 62,540 54,854 722,3S5 206,368 151,73lS 87,887 96,216 58,264 1, 200, '57 781,511 137,321 130,174 1,859,962 792,699 333,346 275, 2S. 226,047 95,270 66,240 2,971,502 2,072,092 843,099 9,220, 852 5,602,910 2, 9&S, 278 363,300 80,331 930,688 693,196 190,478 781,477 291,436 178,459 113,920 52,406 51,354 1,343,256 1,125,130 75,963 61,595 723,493 331,090 78,656 78,117 64,067 Articles and coun- tries of destination. Cotton towels, Turk. island huckaback. British India.... China........... Hongkong...... Australia....... Dutch India.... Straits Settle- ments......... Kwangtung Province...... Cotton, waste....... United King- dom .......... United States... Australia....... Cotton yarns over No. 20 ............ China........... British India.... Hongkong...... Philippines..... Kw an g t un g Pro.ince...... Cotton %arns up to No. 20 ............ HongLong...... China........... K wan g t ung Province...... Philippines..... Crab meat .......... United States... United King- dom .......... France.......... Drawn-work table- cloths........... United States... United King- dom .......... Australia ....... Electric machinery and parts of....... Ca'tina ........... Asiatic Russia.. Kwangtung Province...... Australia ....... United King- dom .......... British India.... Electric wire, in- sulated............ China........... Kwangtung Province...... Asiatic Russia.. Fish: Cuttlefish, dried............. Hongkong...... China........... Straits Set tile- ments......... Fish,shell: Scallops, dried .......... . Hongkong. China........... Straits Set t le- ments......... Flours, meals, and groats of grains (excludes w heat flour) ............. United King- dom .......... United States... France.......... British India.... Flour, wheat........ Straits Settle- ments......... Value. --- -- I ii- -~ $1.628,330 332,362 321.039 253.236 246.629 117,321 84,262 58,573 822,763 389,360 166,167 92,547 10,697.316 7,50'.391 1, 58, 990 1,.194.621 174,232 151,277 27.992.193 . 2,614.963 21,317.090 882,325 51. 530 1. 647,705 922.511 525.542 101.410 1.0.36.915 681.548 246,337 66.497 721.291 1741,502 166,744- 137,755 64.343 52,027 50.410 561.12S 214,3S1 106,193 b2, 579 1,529,179 930,988 412.552 122,301 565,440 252.288 163,312 102,312 2.470,432 1,237,930 650,140 417, 133 55.021 1,129,654 325, 734 Articles and coun- tries of destination. Flour, wheat-Con. United King- dom.......... Hongkong...... Kwangtung Province...... Dutch India.... Glass cups.......... Australia ....... British india.... Dutch India.... Straits Settle- ments ......... Cape Colony and Natal..... Class bottles and flasks............. British India.... Australia ....... United King- dom .......... China........... Philippines..... Straits Settle- ments ......... Honekong...... Dutch Indnia... Cape Colony and Natal..... Glass: Mirrors ..... China.......... British India... . K w a n gt u n g Province...... (;loves .............. Un it ed King- do i .......... C hin. ........... Hatis, l'a n ma , im itation......... United States... Australia ....... H osierv............. C hina .......... Briti-h India... India-rlbber tires... Suni ted King- dom .......... Straits Settle- m ents........ China........... British India.... Hongkong...... Iron manufactures.. Kwangtung Province ...... China........... British India.... Asiatic Russia.. Hongkong ...... Philippines. Dutch India.... Australia....... Lacquered ware..... United States... United Kingdom Lamps and parts of.. China........... United Kingdom British India.... Asiatic Russia. Australia....... United States... Ilongkong...... Kwangtung Proince ...... Dutch India.... Straits Settle- ments......... Leather............. China........... Asiatic Russia.. 32718"-18--55c--2 Value. $306,938 195,396 110,122 103,668 986,312 356.702 219.941 93.702 89.565 57.827 1.848.804 539,749 251,334 217.096 173,027 141.494 124.248 113 216 S, 324 f4. 724 532.017 258.998 61,.419 51.641 917,461 5G2 697 220,232 2, 720 03:t 2,087.864 402,364 1.6.130.3.50 7:314 231 369.8 37 2.032.025 718,576 563,353 388,899 236,434 50 853 4. 64.026 1.176, 342 978, 93 840, 6S9 398,138 370,725 21, 208 169,649 117,410 549,642 162,543 137.962 2,540.664 446,784 435,8 67 415,791 262, 97 253,318 176,946 157,014 107,398 89,940 64,455 833,419 475,527 189,931 ...,, I SUPPLEMENT TO COMMERCE REPORTS. Articles and coun- tries of destination. Leather-Con td. Kwangtung Provinec...... Manure. phosphatic. Asiatic Russia.. Dutch In liia.... Cape ",louy and N.dtl........... llriti l; India.... Australia....... Matches, safety..... British India.... Hongkong...... United States... China........... Asiatic Russia.. Kwangtung Pro since ...... Straits Settle- ments ......... Dutch india.... Australia ....... Philippinesr..... Siam............ Matches, other...... China........... British India.... Kwangtung Province...... Mats, flower........ United States... United Kingdom Menthol crystals.. .. United'King-lom United St.Ces... France.......... British India.... Mushrooms. dried... Hongk'ong...... China........... United States... Straits Settle- ments......... Oil, colza............ United States... United 'fig1klii, Australia....... Kwangtung Pro ince...... France.......... Oil, fish and whale. . United States...- United Kingdom Australia........ France .......... Asiatic Russia.. Oil, mineral......... China........... Kwangtu ng Province...... ]T)i~lln-',nil ..... Oranges, mandarins. K want ung Province...... Canada ......... Asiatic Russia.. China........... United States... Paper, printing, Eu- ropean............ Mhina ........... ] i-ii-a t-iiin ...... Aci i ? n,, ii. K w a n g t u ng Province...... British India.... Dutch India.... Paper, other than ljrintrin;-, l III ;ri C hin ,........... Asiatic Russia.. Kwangtung Province...... Value. $104,082 1,620, 13 69),127 272,945 23q, 997 202, 63% 63,125 8,062,758 2, 5r5, 763 1, 7,i', 173 698,397 684, 2q1 561,788 546,918 515,124 373,488 90,616 75,687 6,5382 2,457,184 1,914,729 328,648 206,129 998,794 520,890 194,454 1,211, 698 45.8,010 401,892 210,613 89,052 825, 225 414,369 201,040 72,265 65,632 1,876,930 1,037,693 59), 410 70,029 6S, 686 68, 559 1,687,213 62), 869 603,158 185, 865 148,513 60,608 1,443,473 896,005 474,205 63,605 580,923 216,921 113,274 108, S31 ,-,920 875 2,328,047 1,373,875 265,051 239,579 199,297 85, 707 57,991 601,366 245,334 193,228 100,490 Articles and coun- tries of destination. P'arcel-po-.t ship. ments............ Russia.......... China........... A',i.0i i'.'iRn ia: Inited Ning.Iom Kwangtung Pro -ince...... IUnI te Staei. . EgI t ......... lriit--li India.... Dutch India.... Italy............ Peani ............ United SLates... Canada ......... Peas............... United i, ingdloin Pencils.............. British India.... France.......... United King- dom......... Asiatic Russia.. Porcelain and earth- enware............ United States... Australia....... China.......... British India.... Straits Settle- ments......... Drtch India.... IHongk'ong...... Canada......... United King- loin......... Kwangtung Province...... Philippines..... Care "olony and 'atal......... Potassiam iodide.. United King- (do0i........... Asiatic Russia.. Railway ties........ China.......... Kwangtung Pro ince ..... Rice. huisL-ed....... United King- do ........... Asiatic Russia.. Chile............ Hawaii......... Kwangtung Pro ince...... Australia....... P I'0, ini'nsked..... Hawaii......... United States... Canada......... T' r1 . . Sl'iir i .'.l 'l:(l..-.. . Australia ....... Sake................ Kwangtung Province ...... lawaii ......... Seaweed .......... China........... Silk and cotton pon- gee................ Australia....... United King- dom .......... United States... Silk (.r' :Z ......... Canada......... Value. ~t ---------I -- t ~ II r-~ (17,280,440 11,953,666 1,597, 519 943,947 769,762 701,055 246,346 177,453 108,865 63,046 51,479 641,071 547,047 74,775 3,924,725 3,841,254 022,304 233,692 123,343 76,470 56,308 6,002,118 2,077,117 743,753 627,625 579,759 351,585 259,892 248,403 231,476 230,588 176,498 110,325 04,369 592,984 312,986 123,730 759,062 576,905 164,402 2.:.,1,751 1,665,041 406,012 122.317 96,032 58,882 52,476 2,995,216 1,212,804 1,013,299 525,991 860, 068 654,258 91,733 1,012,138 365, 884 313,010 191,255 75.214 1,226,633 1,150,731 310,921 116,428 1,418,219 361,516 Articles and coun- tries of destination. Silk cr6pes-Contd. Australia....... British India....! United States...1 Nei ZL/iland... United King. dom........... Silk floss........... France .......... United King- dom.......... Italy............ Asi rK.- u' -ia. . Silk han P.:re ic iks.. Unmtrd St:im-'... U11itel k ing- do- .......... Argentina....... F e". t ........... IT iit I India... Canala ......... Cape olony and Natal........ Silk habutai, figured............ British India.... United h ing- dom .......... Silk habhtai, ulain.. United :tale.... United K ing- dom .......... France......... Auistralia...... British India.... Canadla......... Yo- Zealand... Italv............ Argentina....... Straits Settle- ments......... Egypt......... Dutch India.... Cape .1-,,,'L.'i id "atal ........ Denmark,..... Silk kn; bs......... France........ United States... Italy........... Sil5', raw: Steam filature over 12 denier............. United States... France......... l I ......... United King- dom.......... Silk, raw: Steam flilat'rc up to 12 denier........... 1' r., i ,',, .. ......... I,,- r ......... United States.., Silk satins......... United 1i.ir.-.. British lintia.... Silk sprn ,. ri, .. Britislin In li .. United States... Silt, i .,* .. .... .. Fr i. I. l j ........ Italy............ United King. dom .......... Soap, toilet......... China........... Kwangtung ro, incr...... British India.... Hongkong...... _~~~. .-__ _ Value. 8201,277 235. 070 162,651 143,494 67,110 1,280,837 36, 507 347,250 334,723 1l.,385 2. 15s.090 821, 1;1 420,798 271 '.31 101,417 04,531 85,122 55,214 809,664 563,344 110,777 19,766,529 6,358,000 8,289,668 2,758,081 1,657,020 1,496,731 934,048 259,330 238, 608 137.22.3 102. q22 99, 0;D) 76,654 71,805 61. 750 1, t1',185 790,193 399,398 228,898 131,071,406 111,477,071 14,438,928 4, 0.,Y, 3 ) I, 0jd, ,I , 1,801,592 1,340,953 344,045 8%, 071 802,427 315,182 2 1., 794 bWg 1.940 723,903 53,177 3,741,325 1,902,520 882,929 136,353 839,359 481,100 124,388 110,569 60,901 JAPAN. Articles and coun- Articles and coun- ArticJes and coun- tries of Value. tries of Value. tries of Value. destination. destination, destination. Boy ................. 553,545 Toys-Continued. Vessels, steam- United States.. 190,292 British India... $464,648 Cofitinued. Hawaii......... 144,124 Australia....... 446,321 Spain.......... $648,050 Kwangtung China .......... 198,401 China .......... 202,370 Province...... 72,854 Canada......... 170,619 Wax, vegetable..... 865,197 Spinning and wear- Dutch India.... 147, 649 United States... 256,259 Img machinery, Straits Settle- France......... 216,088 and parts of....... 819,510 ments........ 76,1Q6 Asiatic Russia.. 180,798 Britishrindia.... 562,156 Hongkong...... 71,591 United King- China .......... 233,957 New Zealand... 62,520 dom .......... 83,767 Sugar, refined....... 8,183,236 Umbrellas andpara- British India... 66,021 China........... 6,137.656 sols, cotton, Euro- Wood: Boards for British India.... 919,123 pean ............. 1,025,956 tea boxes ......... 1,379,122 Kwangtung China ........... 688,655 British India... 919,695 Province...... 824,174 Dutch India.... 111,408 Straits Settle- Asiatic Russia.. 183,688 British India.... 99,434 ments........ 311,544 Sulphur............ 3,098,446 Underwear, cotton Dutch India.... 114,166 Asiatic Russia.. 1,358,520 crepe............. 721,057 Wood manufactures Australia....... 625,575 British India.... 204,454 (except furm- United States... 598,204 Dutch India.... 173,022 ture. .......... 723,.562 British India... 140,837 Philippines..... 171,296 United States... 201,335 Canada ......... 129,395 Straits Settle- China ........... 114,793 Dutch India.... 70,823 ments ........ 97.942 Kwang Lung Sulphuric acid...... 756,532 Underwear, cotton, Province...... 73,080 Asiatic Russia. 499,415 knit.............. 14,373,941 British India... 67,572 Kwangtung United King- France .......... 62,840 Province...... &5,936 doi .......... 4,450.2?3 Woolen cloths and Straits Settle- British India... 3,0 9,013 serges............. 2,c90,116 ments ......... 67,122 Asiatic Russia.. 1,309,5'60 Asiatic Russia... 2,524,659 Tea, black.......... 1,524,297 China ........... 1,211,914 French Indo- United States... 1,361.754 Australia....... 1,200,911 China.......... 195,975 Canada ......... 68,776 Cape Colony China ........... 106,899 United King- and Natal..... 729,212 Woolen yarns....... 770,123 dom.......... 56,165 Dutch India.... 50,620 China........... 324,842 Tea, green, basket Philippines..... 549,443 British India... 264,436 fire........... 1,807,500 Hongkong...... 332.S23 Hongkong...... 101,523 United States... 1,537,035 Kwangtun g Woolen manufac- Canada......... 121,014 Province...... 20i, 1S5 tures: Moucselme China ........... 74,738 Straits Settle- de laine........... 1,355,144 Tea,grcen, p.mfire. 4,365,654 ments ........ 207,4111 France .......... 653,448 United States... 3,519,069 Egypt.......... 136,3.S0 United King- Canada......... 820,170 New Zealand... 93,533 dom.......... 329,141 Toys............... 3, 808,250 Vessels, steam...... 8, 563,515 British India... 146,666 United States... 1,211,363 Norway ........ 5,019.142 Australia....... 59,934 United King- Egypt.......... 1,S31,9SS Kwangtung dom.......... 657,44 Philippines..... 747,999 Province ...... 54,916 Declared Exports to United States. There is given below a list of the principal articles invoiced at the American consuilates and agencies in Japan, excluding Taiwan and Dairen, for the United States and possessions during 1915 and 1916: 1915 1916 Articles. Quantity. Value. Quantity. Value. TO UNITED STATES. Antimony ore................................ tons.. 3,505 Bamboo and manufactures of ........................ ............ Beads, imitation pearl.........................gross.. ............ Blocking foils................................sheets.. ............ Books and periodicals................................ ............ Braids: Hemp, chip, and straw..................... ............ Brass ingots ................................pounds.. ............ Bristles, refined...............................do.... 5,851 Bronze powder................................do.... ............ Buttons.............................................. ............ Brushes and feather dusters.......................... ............ Catgut ....................................number.. 469,658 Charcoal.......................................tons.. 815 Chemicals, drugs, dyes, and medicines, etc: Alum crystals..........................pounds.. 681,040 Glycerine .................................. do ............ Gum, crude and refined: Camphor..............................do.... 1,172,972 Other ....... ....................... do ... ............ $1,751,969 448,260 .............. 36,242 3,380,765 .............. 19,035 .............. 290,191 637,055 91,883 11,887 8,332 454,016 3,086 ............ 75,974 840,000 ............ 62,852 31,956 393,710 824 1,539,370 121,070 2,214,547 105,436 51,820,814 627,091 27,850 11,934 57,415 4,093,705 87,365 43,615 227,157 866,266 1,359,636 125,710 11,913 30,018 35,250 1,100,694 12,763 =; SUPPLEMENT TO COMMERCE REPORTS. Articles. tO UNITED STATES-Continued. Chemicals. drugs, dyes, and imedielnes, etc.-Contd. Indico paste..................................... Insect powder...........................pounds.. Medi'ines, prepared.............................. Menthol crystal........................ pounds.. Pyrethrum flowers........................ do.... Rnlphur................................... tons.. Wa.. 'egetable........................ pounds.. All other ....................................... . Copper ingots and slabs.....................pounds.. Cotton and linen: Piece goods....................................... Rog.. ............................. pounds... lRenais-anc'o, drawn works, embroideries, lace, etc............................................ . Wearing apparel.................................. Yarn and thread...................... pounds.. Other manufactures............................. . Crucible...................................number.. . Fans.......................................... do..... Fertilizer, artificial................................... . Fiber and manufacture' of............................ Flower, artifi r.il..................................... . Furniture: Screens, wood carvings, lacquered ware, etc.................................................. Glass and manufactures of ......................... . Gold bullion......................................... Gold leaf.....................................sheets.. . Gold ore.......................................tons. . Hats, bonnets, etc............................dozen.. Hiile-. furs, and skins................................. Iridium.....................................ounces.. . Ivory and hone manufactures........................ Leather manufactures............................... . Manganese ore................................ tons.. Matches.......................................gross.. Mats and mattings .................................... Metal manufactures.................................. . Musical instruments................................. . Oil vegetable and fish............................... . Paper and manufactures of: Copying paper, etc............................. . Napkins........................................ . Other paper manufactures..................... . Personal and household goods........................ . Plants, bulbs, etc..................................... Plumbago (graphite)...........................tons.. Porcelain and earthenware............................ Pro visions, vegetable and fruits, etc.: .\c.&r--:,ar ...............................pounds.. Bic.ii .mnd peas................................. . Biscuits and wafers................................ Buckwheat.............................bushels.. Chili peppers.......................... poun is.. Corn................................... bushels.. F ....................................pounds.. .] h, beef. 'infl -egetables in tins................. Fish and. li Ili it dried or prepared).. .pounds.. Fruits, fresh...................................... Millet...................................pounds.. Mushrooms................................ do.... Nuts.......................................do.... Oats....................................bushels.. Peanuts................................pounds.. Rice....................................... do.... Sake....................................gallons.. Sou .:nd vinegar................................ W'h,,t Grain, flour, and middling.............. . A ll other......................................... .. Rugs, of rag and jute..................square yards.. Scheelite ore.................................. tons.. . Silk: Piece goods and other silk manufactures.......... . Raw and waste.........................pounds.. Tea............................................do.... Tennis rackets...............................dozens.. Timrnlr jnr lumber.................................. Ti-ilot articles........................................ Toys........................................... Tungsten ore ...................................tons..1 1915 1916 Quantity. Value. Quantity. Value. 20,095 279,132 90. ,509 3f, 176 1,828,806 ........... 21,144,010 858,924o ........... 6,072,939 ........... ........... ....I... ... ........... 276,892 ........... 3,347 610,424 ........... ........... ......... j. 68, 8...... 632,005 ......... 1,748,832 673,416" 41,977,996 92,238 442,500 39, 276 3, 652, 659 52,175,449 22'.. 21f 99, 559 21,117,039 33,324,508 58 $416,105 4,401 61,6568 46, ,848 154,493 460,443 177,736 28,045 3,147,339 ........... 208,459 1,412,976 195, 2F.4 29,890 51,080 39,343 29,252 .............. 188,377 20,976 547,800 .............. .............. 984,590 57,016 7,512 6,710 75,886 173.823 825,614 115,653 7,237 1,037, 597 158,417 21,394 80,862 45, 824 219,160 8,503 1,016,776 83,360 693,484 9.116 40,258 52.041 886,521 .............. ".' 587 *., 487 16, 644 567,621 29,546 27,669 15, 236 354,801 1,188.634 100,972 141,589 17,522 316,010 45,807 5,249, 237 63,984, 081 6,000, 756 227,442 5, 648 4 1'1, ,i. i8 60,842 ............ ....64 i6. 781,472 20,717 2,370,233 7,908,617" ............ 2,537,5006 ............ 4,21iv.4t ............ 16,177 5,714,153 ............ 107 512,116 781i 4,721 2,0 I1 080 ............ ............ 3,718 556,517 S9, 070 1,628.466 18, 706 633,333 1,... ,585 6,"094,"631i 135,518 1,116,879 18,345,080 58, t, s, 477 273,776 1,"466,"766" 54 28,059,214 33, 751, 693 57,412 ............ $108,049 24,3R6 110,957 3.14,963 145.963 451,756 291, 307 201,300 1,895,288 764,690 37,571 1, .2,' 72 149,338 306,517 73,690 49,400 389,066 138, 42 54,431 365,295 157,374 21,086 2,202,713 438,090 31,871 28,666 10,576 158,498 625,748 1,410,949 253,465 50.943 7,818,313 252, 595 32, 728 147, 758 35,195 457,260 90,017 1,507,436 182,101 2, 720.425 8,319 57,824 147,847 10,097 264, 736 1,152,840 124. 117 30,954 88, 506 38,780 65,423 643.460 1,517,324 149,879 177,609 18,634 1,091,132 164,461 91,284 8, 402,t1 qi 116,384,445 5, 453, 176 71,835 519,000 9, 151 1, 090, 490 798,433 JAPAN. 1 Articles. Quantity. TO UNITED STATES--continued. Umbrella handles............................ dozens.. 108,924 Umbrellas and parasols ........................ do .... ............ W orks of art ......................................... ............ Wool, sheep ............................... pounds ............ Woolen and mousseline textiles ...................... ............ Zinc dust ................................... pounds.. 125,503 All other articles ................................................. Charges .............................................. ............ Total........................................... ............ TO PHILIPPINE ISLANDS. Bamboo manufactures ............................... ............ Books and periodicals ................................ ............ Braids, hemp, chip, and straw....................... ............ Buttons.......................................gross.. 34,596' Brushes and feather dusters.......................... ............ Celluloid ware............................ ...dozen.. ............ Cement.....................................pounds.. 47,273,992 Chemicals, drugs, etc : Acid, muriatic, nitric, and sulphuric....... 'kI.... 332,780 Bleaching powder................. .......do. ........... Borax crystals ............ .......... ...... Camphor and camphor oil.................do.... 3,41jS M edic ine;, prepared.................... ..... ..... ............ Menthol rvystlils....................... pounds.. 44 Pepperm int oil ......................... .... do .... ....... .... Soda, washing............................. do............. Sulphur. ............................... tons.. 7 Wax, vegetable ........................ pounds.. 39, 832 All other.. ....................................... ... ........... Coal........................................... tons.. 322,141 Coal tar................................... puunds.. 100) Coke........................................ tons.. 54 Cotton and linen: Piece goods................ ................. ....... Renaissance, drawn works, embroideries, lace, etc ............ Raw cotton (American)................ pounds.. ............ W hearing apparel ................................ ............ Yarn and thread....................... pouuds.. 1,492,590 W aste.................................... do.... 129.7i , A ll other.............................. ............................ Enameled ware............................. dozen.. .... Fans...................................... number.. 650,-1M2 Fertilizer.................................. ton........... Fishing articles............................ number.. i6, O Furniture: Screens, wood carvings, lacquered ware, etc ........... Glass and manufactures of........................... ............ Hats, bonnets, etc............................dozen.. 1,022 Hides, furs, and skins.....................number.. ISO Ivory and bone manufactures........................ ............ Leather man ufactures.............................. ............. Matches.......................................gross.. 201,2'.0O Mats and mattings....................square yards.. 30, 138 Metal manufactures.................................. ........ Paper and manufactures of: Copying paper, etc........................................... Napkins ........................................... .... ........ Paper manufactures............................. ........... Personal and household goods........................ ............ Plants, bulbs etc ........................................ Porcelain and earthenware .................................... Provisions, vegetables and fruits, etc.: Agar-agar..............................pounds.. 1,978 Beans and peas............................do.... ............ Biscuits and wafers.............................. ............ Fish, beef, and vegetables in tins............................. Fish and shellfish, dried or prepared...pounds.. 65,672 Fruits and vegetables............................ ............ Mineral water............................dozen.. 102,213 Mushrooms............................pounds.. 5, 817 Potato .....................................do.... 5,001,100 Rice.....................................do...do 339,093 Sake....................................gallons.. 5,288 So and vinegar.......................... ................. Wheat flour............................bushels.. ............ All other......................................... ............ Silk manufactures, hand kerchiefs, piece goods, etc.... ........... 13 915 1916 Value. Quantity. Value. $25,005 225,090 481,930 3,373 ............ -'28 246 ... ... ... .. .. .. . 31,974 1,101,219 1,610.420 ...... ..... 5.471,429 ............ 108, 169,421 ............ 3,261 6,708 21,508 9, t63 10,004 200,082 7,091 4,352 4, 115 99 ...... .... ... 239 6,772 1,330,673 530 tC75 ,42 7I,3,'i12 289,01.3 I ,2 55 131,4533 20, 2 6t t', 114 17,I 37 121,04M 2.7;3 itI 53 37,23.3 49,902 3, 4_K4 19, 302 11,731 4,'297 1, I.0 2,241 30 4 S,319 677 12,403 43 9, 131 7,562 1S3,09t 11,205 .7, Ibl 7,759 2, Ot,5 2,921 2f6, 4 O 127.382 43,155 ............ 16,930 36,782,833 294,480 30,000 43, 194 10SO .........25 25 223,770 15 122,190 .. .. 33Jb,3L.8 ......... .. 3 7 0 " . . . 139,331 a0,750 225,345 115, t-.1- 1,4119,014 925 3,277 232,341 77, 3S1 . . . ............ ............ 7t; 119,140 1, 7>,3 J,133,. 510 952, 524 3,872 17,,30 . . $96, 524 10,666 265,085 7, 434 37,459 167, 293 2,116,249 10,634,671 189.052,828 5,372 3,335 34,043 7,7t.9 6, S0 9, t,73 148,406 11,476 1,513 t, 248 70 14,937 107 27 6, 126 425 9,544 b', 740 1,409,782 . ...... ..... 4,ObO S7,952 2,309 2', 2n2 5c53, t3 "2 230,1"2 17,907 199,9'29 119, 1.59 35,723 9,190 >, Sst :,S, 572 1t -,417 7,420 97 84, t7 2, U037 7',, t,70 53,430 344 130 92, .t%7 241 I1, 149 33.1 1 ,31.3 7,109 228,407 16,805 529 43,673 72.652 2, 11 4,511 23,644 40,796 101, 17 SUPPLEMENT TO COMMERCE REPORTS. 1915 1916 Articles. -- - Quantity. Value. Quantity. Value. TQ PHILIPPINE ISLANDS-continued. Tea......................................... pounds.. Toilet articles........................................ Toys................................................. Umbrellas and parasols-silk, cotton, and paper ..........................................dozen.. Umbrella handles and fittings, etc..................... Work:- of art......................................... Woolen yarn and mousseline textiles................. All other articles..................................... Charges.............................................. Total........................................... TO HAWAIIAN ISLANDS. Bamboo manufactures............................... Buok. and periodicals............................. Braids: hemp, chip, and straw...................... BruNhle. and feather dusters.......................... Buttons, various..............................gross.. Coal...........................................tons.. Cotton and linen: Piece goods........................square yards.. Renaissance, drawn works, embroideries, lace,etc. Wearing apparel................................ Yarns.................................. pounds.. Other manufactures ................... ...... Furniture: Screens, wood carvings, lacquered ware, etc................................................. Glass manufactures.................................. IBats, bonnets, etc........................... do/en.. Iron, pig.......................................tons.. Ivory and bone manufactures........................ Leather manufactures................................ Matches...................................... gross.. Mats and mattings....................square yards.. Medicines. prepared.................................. Metal manufactures.................................. Oil, vegetable.............................. pounds.. Paper and manufactures of: Paper............................................ Paper manufactures.............................. Pers nal and household goods........................ Plants, bulbs, etc.................................... Porcelain and earthenware........................... Pruvisi,,ns and vegetables, etc.: AAg r-j Lr .............................. pounds., 13t.1n, .L d peas .................................. Biscuits and wafers ............................. Eggs....... .............number.. Fish, beef, and vegetables in tins................. Fish and shellfish (dried or pre. I.i t Ii)..1 uminil>.. Mushrooms............................... do .... Peanuts.................................. dj.... Rice....................................... do.... Sake.. ................................gallons.. Soy and vinegar................................ All other ......................................... Silk manufactures..................................' Sulphur........................................ t. ns. . Tea............ ...........................p unds.. Timber and lumber.....................square feet.. Toilet articles....................................... Toys............. ................................... ii I rell and parasols: Cotton tissue.............................dozen.. Paper..................................... do.... Silk tissue ................ ...............do..., Woolen and mousseline textiles..................... All other articles........................... ......... Charges........ ......................., Total........................................... 2,660 ............ ............ ............ ............ ............. ............19 87,230 .... ..... g . ............ 800 ............ ............ 2,693 3560 ............ 271,348 ............ ............ 1,891 29,318 245,816 47, 1h.I 2.5 ............ ............ 1,880' ............ ............ 240,340 $562 42 31,607 9,606 276,' 419 380,817 ............ 4,411,410 ........... 5,362,710 6,560 20,214 483 3,284 261 595,087 166,323 2,432 6,865 75 15,475 8,227 2,149 19,034 7,740 369 771 .. ........... 20,682 2u,693 69,393 8,630 7,649 9,3P 1,873 115 16,185 751 i, 5111 . ..... ....... 135,054" 59,706 8,618 7,235 1,095,918 32,089 114,856 225,889 88S,715 14,683 36,547 13,764 7,709 .............. 33,299 329,071 494,816 ............ ............ ........... 81,0206 ... ....... ........... 114 ............ ............ 28,537 10,929 800 ............ ............i ............ ............ 18,5041 ........ ... ............ 1,320 220 ............ ............ ............ .... ,720,694 ............ 4,ul, 5,330 .........1.. 619 ............. |1,116 6,508 38,835 5,607 45,331 260 3,981 292,322 530,282 8,109 23,425 316 7,541 823,27S 156,064 5,331 8,942 16 21,330 15,937 1,804 13,761 18,928 1,181 1,6 574 29,692 22,986 33,027 10,962 11,992 8,194 18,878 250 2,415 20,406 069 67,002 11,122 1,2,2 171,729 82,179 8,87' 4. 710 1, l-1.2,.57 35, 5i 131, 35. 283,738 95,522 20,764 53, 117 1,079 40,759 14,256 1,589 4,396 2,213 11,567 319,021 615,Wll _ ~_______r___ 1_~_C__ ~_______ /I ( JAPAN-KOBE. KOBE. By Consul IRobert Frazer, Jr. The Kobe consular district comprises almost the whole western half of the main island (Honshu) and all of one of the other islands of the Japanese archipelago (Shikoku), and contains 40,035 square miles, or 27 per cent of the area of Japan proper. Its population, however, is nearer to one-half than one-quarter of that of the whole country. The district contains 29 of the Empire's 72 cities, among which are Osaka, the industrial center of Japan, with nearly 2,000,000 inhabitants, and Kobe, the twin city and port of Osaka, 18 miles dis- tant, the second port and chief trade center of the country. Kobe has a population of 532,000 and Kyoto, the other of the three princi- pal cities of the district and the former capital of Japan, 509,000. Importance of Manufacturing Industries. Agriculture, silk-worm culture, and mining are all of consequence, but by far the most important activities of this part of Japan are manufacturing and foreign trade. The. city of Osaka has 2,046. factories, employing more than 10 workmen each, a total of 131,760, and Kobe 1,102 factories, with at least 15 workmen each, employing altogether 119,796 persons. As the greatest amount of manufacturing is carried on here as house- hold industries they are not included in the foregoing figures. The figures given include only a part, and perhaps not the largest part, of the total number of persons engaged here in manufacturing. The principal industry is cotton manufacturing, more than $70,000,000 worth of yarns and textiles having been exported from this district in 1916. The other important industries are the manu- facture of matches, glass, hats, buttons, brushes, braids, porcelain and earthenware, and toys. In 1916, Kobe alone imported nearly half of the total amount of merchandise brought into Japan and exported nearly one-third of the merchandise shipped out of the country; 2,469 vessels engaged in foreign trade touched here, aggregating 5,708,656 tons. In mineral production the principal article was copper, of which about $18,000,000 worth was exported in ingots from Kobe and Osaka in 1916. The chief agricultural or vegetable products exported from Kobe were: Rice, $4,507,000; camphor, $3,063,000; colza oil, $1,696,000; sugar, $1,560,000; peas, $1.295.000; and heans. $1.178,000. General Industrial Conditions in 1916. The year 1916 was the most prosperous in the history of this consular district, as it was of all Japan, and the volume of foreign trade at Kobe was the largest on record. While imports alone in- creased greatly over the previous year (from $135,000,000 to $187,- 000,000, or 39 per cent), the greatest gain was made in exports (which rose from $98,000,000 to $165,000,000, or 70 per cent), in 1916 as compared with 1915. While Osaka is of less importance as a port than Kobe, its foreign trade also grew very largely last year, its imports increasing from about $25,000,000 to $40,000,000, or 64 16 SUPPLEMENT TO COMMERCE REPORTS. per cent, and its exports from $40,000,000 to $70,000,000, or 52 per cent, as compared with 1915. Other evidences of commercial prosperity during the year were the invt.a.-e of clearing-house returns, which amounted to 80 per cent for Kobe and 77 per cent for Osaka; bank deposits, which in- creased 40 per cent; and the average dividend rate of bank and company shares, which amounted to 15.26 per cent on March 1, 1917. The average quotation of such shares on that day was $78.87, as against the average paid-up capital of $27.43. A shipping firm in Kobe and a paper-nanufacturing company in Osaka have each declared a dividend for 1916 of 500 per cent. Foreign Trade of Japan. The following comparative table, which includes all of the ports of entry in Japan, gives the approximate value of the foreign trade at each: District and city. Kobe consular district: Kcbe ........ ............................ Osaka ....................................... Y(kkai:hi ................................. Nag ya.................................... Tsuruga................................... Taketoyo.................................. It saki..................................... Sakai ...................................... Nanao ..................................... Fushiki.................................... Yokohama district: Yokohama................................ Hakmdate................................. Niigata .................................... "q'bisu ..................................... Shimidsu. .................................. A(;m ri .................................... Murnran................................... Kushiro.................................... Nemuro ..................................... Otarn...................................... Otumari.................................... Nagasaki district: Nagasaki................................... M i ji ....................................... H-1 '.l 'k ............................... A\ akarmatsu................................ Ilakata .................................... Karatsu.................................... Suminoye.................................. M iike............'......................... Kuchinotsu............................... Misumi ................................ Idzuhara................................... Shikami.................................... Sasuna...................................... Nana................................... Imports. 1915 $134,204,000 25,229,000 8, 659,000 1,863,000 905,000 2, 1.1'. 000 .7. 000 59,000 81,000 81,000 70, 175, 000 199,000 155,000 111, 000 335,000 344,000 168,000 ..............i 194,' 000 11,000 3,915,000 11, .o'I. 000 ;1i 1, 000 2,039,000 5,13,000 18,000 .............. 45r6,000 73,000 157,000 8,000 71,000i Exports. 1916 1915 1916 $186,488,000 40,867,000 9,462,000 1,657,000 849,000 2,425,000 1,242,000 76,000 28,000 44,000 104,869,000 408,000 156,000 78, 000 463, 000 108,000 142,000 ..............i 188,000 2,000 7,051,000 15,415,000 1,175,000 2,080,000 318, 000o 139,000 1,437,60006 58,000 112,000 10,000 180,000 $98,502,000 46,770,000 1.,.0, FR o 3, 171,0 ii1 19,118,000 253,000 .......... .... 77,000 152,976,000 2,395,000 125,000 4,775, 000 58,000 807,000 456,000 40,000 2,336, 000 85,000 2,320,000 9,302,000 1,027,000 2,670,000 38,000 1,244,000 252,000 3,174,000 13;, 000l .............. 3,000 2,000 11,000 31,000 $165,055,000 70, 689,000 1,665,000 5,105,000 27,139,000 205,000 .............. .............. .............. 77,000 248,827,000 2, 1.7 i x) 928,000 .............. 4,414,000 57,000 988,000 505,000 191,000 3,581,000 46,000 4,967, 000 13,625,000 3,700,000 3,111,000 9, 000 1,275,000 800,000 3,770,000 192,000 .............. 5,000 2,000 23, 000 There was a great increase of trade at every city of importance, but eClpecially so in exports. These increased 59 per cent for all Japan and 70 per cent for Kobe alone, while imports increased 42 per cent for all Japan as compared to 39 per cent for Kobe alone. Foreign Trade of Kobe by Countries. The foreigii trale of KoIe, lby countries, for 1916 compared to 1915, is shown in the following table: JAPAN-KOBE. Imports f Countries. 1915 Argentina................................... Austria-Hungary............................. Belgium...................................... Chile........................................... China................... ....................... Denmark ..................................... France and possessions: France..................................... French Indo-China....................... Germany ...................................... Great Britain and possessions: Australia.................................. Canada .................................. Cape Colony and Natal................... Egypt................................ Great Britain............................. Hongkong.... ..................... India.................................... Straits Settlements......................... Netherlands and possessions: Dutch-India .............................. Netherlands............................... Italy.................................... ...... Kwangtiuig Province......................... Mexicu ........................................ Norway.. :.................................. Peru....................... ................... Portugal...................................... Russia and possessions: Russia.................. .................. Siberia.................................... Siam ........................................... Spain ........ ................................. Sweden........ ............................... Switzerhind ................................... Turkey ................. ...................... United St-ites and possessions: Hawaiian Isiands......................... Philippine Islands......................... United States.............................. All other countries............................. $12 8,411 23,368 758,410 16,804,595 44, 156 1,030,247 785,462 1,663,704 8,072,719 316,397 8 1,773,564 12,882,795 403,36.5 47,172,605 2,037,044 1,361, 086 37,125 55,603 3,765,018 5 152,243 308 1,309 10,034 301,367 1,138, 368 18,517 1,466,157 S3-12, 479 II, 686 S17,131 29, 889,335 1,027,711 Total................................... 131,204.374 rom. 1916 $9 1,357 6,685 1, 5S6, 267 20,128,122 48,496 977,632 674,703 1,097,118 12,044,616 407, 898 157 2,480,683 19,697,459 138,203 59,416,031 3,614,502 1,730,921 27,379 188,612 4,963, 442 1, 275 517,742 7,111 3,290 107, 36:3 1,513 1,187,750 21,15.8 2,267,661 448,312 3 15, 895 1,218,297 49,312,167 2.115,554 Exports to. 1915 1916 $26,389 $53,610 ..... ........ .............. .............. .............. 64,923 327, .85 22,293, 105 30,533, 995 153,711 109, 580 4,133,075 157,709 .............. 4,724,794 1,209,101 329,649 239,346 14,793,190 6,923,553 10, 630,536 2,893, 9S9 2, 233,336 13, 180 331,724 2,107,297 1,880 369 26, 626 4, 196 191,264 6,250, 983 209, 1,53 ES, r29 17.799 9. 425 749 2,u. ,:6s -, 026 3 2, 38;, 263 13. S75, 506 11-S, 41 186,488,386 98,502,518 5,776,401 522,259 .............. 8,306, 524 1,963, 603 1, 564, 843 551,976 23,172,281 8,849,297 18, 270, 323 4,451,504 5, 413, 626 34, 789 215,516 3,864,785 6, 168 3,275,275 86, 790 4,859 2,862,553 12,791, 68W 601,029 697,011 96,922 8,651 2,334,613 3,83.5,128 21,202, ,03 267, 57 165,055,663 Tie large increase in 1916 was shared fairly equally by nearly all of the countries with which Japan principally trades, with the ex- ception of Russia, which, owing to the large war orders placed here, increased its exports to Kobe nearly 11, and its imports from Kobe just 15 times. The United States, however, is both the chief customer of and principal seller to this district, the total volume of trade between the United States (including insular possessions) and Kobe having amounted to $S1,000,000 last year. Next in importance is India, with which this porL did a. trade of $77,000,000, China, $50,000.000. and Great Britain, $42,000,000. The tonnage of merchandise (by weight) handled at the port of Kobe in 1915 and 1916 was as follows: Imports, 1,568.717 tons and 1,941,992 tons; exports, 1,380,815 tons, and 1,710,138 tons; and total foreign trade, 2,949,532 and 3,652,130 tons. 327180-18-55c---3 I 18 SUPPLEMENT TO COMMERCE REPORTS. Foreign Trade of Osaka by Countries. The foreign trade of the port of O-aka by c,,iintries in 1915 and 1916 is shown in the table which follows: ( 'oulni rir. Belgium....................................... China ......................................... France and possessions: Franee..................................... French Indo-China......................... Germany..................................... Great Britain and possessions: Australia.................................. Great Britain.............................. S],i '. li ............................ ...... In.1h i ...................................... Straits Settlements........................ Netherlands and possessions: Dutch India............................... Netherlands............................... Ilt:a v. ........................................ K v ii-..' ; I'r.. ince .......................... Siam .......................................... Sweden and Norway........................... United States and possessions: Philippine Islands......................... United States.............................. All other countries............................. Total.................................... Imports from. Exports to. 1915 1916 1915 1916 8,390,474 24,071 260, 718 :9'1, .;II S 8R, 154 1,523,264 1,121 10,189,762 44,905 1,174,814 14,984 3,924 .1,14, 504 39, 04 12,272 17,072 70,472 816, 012 1,:1 144 $81 15,964,189 107,525 793, 604 -12. 762 221,288 2,444,989 31,869 11,842,797 163,120 967,903 67,314 6,039 2 , ', i9 8,966 16,064 167,493 3, 367,326 1,620,649 25,229,561 Dl4 ,.;._ ... ,,.--I. .............. $28, 044,864 8 1,319 .............. 98,257 635,998 2,010, 103 3, 24,837 3,0,634 22,040 .............. 5,489, 575 5,344,342 90)2 250 35,264 646,336 345,255 46,770.584 About half of the total imports and exports of Osaka of $111,- 000,000 wern with China, the volume of trade with that country amounting to about $'54,000,000. This was due chiefly to exports of nearly r-0.0,00,000 of cotton yarn and textiles. The United States and p,,s,,ions, with $4.500,000, ranked fourth in importance in Osaka's trade; China ranking first, British India second with $20,000,000, and Kwangtung Province (Dairen) third with 11,000,000. The tonnage of i,-rliandise (by weight) l ndled at Osaka dur- ing 1915 and 1916 was as follows: Imports 460,198 tons and 480,9900 tons; exports 413:)E( tons and 479,020) tons; total trade 899,467 tons and 960,014 ton-. Kobe's Export Trade by Articles. The following table gives the cii-iin,.in statistics of the exports of Kobe by articles to all colunlri.s in 1915'and 1916: Articles. S:.,il drink, an tobacco: Unprepared- 1ip o i .i pet', and pulse........i.oii. 1 .. Cod..........................do.... Cuttle.......................do.... Ginger, dried............... .. do.... atifshrooms, dried............... do.... )nions........................... do.... Feas.......................... do.... ltice. ........ ................... do.... 1915 Quantity. Value. 30,50M,543 1 1 ..' ' 3, I '., -, 1' 1, ..' 1'1 9; :, ..I') 97,460 620,080 133,029 420,219 18),180 713, 28 4,161,283 1916 Quantity. Value. 29,746,782 $1,178, 622 6,257,053 167,602 9,385,029 619,727 3,! ".' ',i 151,473 2, ,,9 1.4 520,050 17, 986,953 214,966 26,570,093 1,295,347 17 1, 1 ,667 4,507,500 ............., $38, 636, 059- 238,103 35,702 .............. 408,595 1,694,550 2, 8 ,., "27 8,ill,' 17 793, 329 614,316 8,576,,86 6,250, 38 24,599 48,723 1,030,033 1,4359,919 70,689,916 JAPAN-KOBE. Articles. Food, drink, and tobacco-Continued. Unprepared-Continued. Scallops ligaments of.........pounds.. Seaweeds..................do.... Shrimps and prawns............ do.... Quantity. 1,897,780 14, 243,201 1,874,135 Total................................. ......... Partly or wholly prepared- Agar-agar (isingFass)..........pounds.. Cigarettes..................thousands.. Foodstuffs, in tin packages............. Mineral water..................dozen.. Pea cheese (miso)............ pounds.. Sake, or rice wine.............gallons.. Sugar, refined................ pounds.. Tea, green .......................do.... 2,263,010 46, 168 .............. 274, 03S 4, 649,095 706, 912 28,802 752 2,9660,754 Total.............................. .............. Raw materials: Bamboos........................ number.. Boards, for tea boxes.................sets.. Cotton yarn, waste................pounds.. Silk, waste...........................do.... Wood, lumber, and boards................. Total .................................... .... Manufactures for further use in manufacturing: Braids- Hemp....................... bundles.. Straw and chip..................do.... Camphor........................ puunds.. Copper ingots and slabs.......... do.... Cotton yarns................... do.... Leather..............................do .... Match sticks or splints...... 1,000 bundles.. Menthol crystals................. ound... Oils- Camphor........................do... Colza............................do.... Fish and whale................. do.... D 18,230,903 2,41t4,339 10, 67 7,5 37 *186,344 10), i., .'07 14, 122,012 4,99"1,4.S 61,199i, 9 8 116,473, I.wU 114,2.'4 4 0, 921 3, USI, 'S3 23, 71.1,; 44 24, ,SIJ n t ..-1 Srpp r n I LIL.................. .... IJ .. .) .' .1 Soyat hean.......................do.... 2,.309,140 Pyrettirum floweri................... do.... 1,942,137, Sulphur .............................do.... 1.3,34'., 144 Silk yarns, spun..................... do... 2q4, ,$'9 Wax, vegelable......................do.... 6, 155,19. Total................................................... Articles wholly manufactured: Bamboo manufactures..................... .............. Brushes- Tooth ..........................dozen.. 2, 820, (1 I Allother...... ............................... ....... Buttons, ol shell.................... gross.. 7.589, 5 S Clocks............................number.. 1.0, 313 Coral............................ pounds.. r,1,1% Cotton- Crepe.......................... yards.. 1,947,200 Drills.............................do.... 9,035,9S1 Flannels.........................do.... 13,5S9,777 Nankeens, imitation.............do.... 3, .53.1, 153 Towels.........................dozen.. 1,960,447 Underwear, knit..............do.... 3,009, 417 Cotton and hemp carpets................... .............. Fans.............................number.. 12,062, 140) Furs ....................................... .............. Glass manufactures........................ .............. Handkerchiefs......................dozen.. 12, 775 Hats, caps, and bonnets.................... .............. Hats, imitation Panama............dozen.. 241,724 Lacquered ware............................ .............. Lamps and parts thereof ................... .............. Lanterns, Japanese.............. number.. 2,442,350 Matches............................ gross.. 32,437,391 Mats for floor.................... numbor.. 3,449,364 Mattings for Iloor, in rolls............rolls..I 137,302 Value. 5251,283 193, i20 140, 539 7,846,990 629,710 37,216 347,272 109,123 113,71.5 454, 842 985, 6U 3u3, 720 3,243,208 18, 764 491,899 393, 843 256,595 374,763 1,703, 8,4 1, tI '.. 7 1 .27, 010 1,622. 16.9 .i.2. '".. 99 15,723,771 ,394.627 477, 961 l8j, .33 1,317,920 798, 13S 123., 'r.) 142,205 13l;. .sl's 132., il . "i I,124 I .31, 650,53S 481, S39 .S93, 315 1,OS1, 173 1,517,712 121, 623 167..22'J 132.335 44h, .'04 593,701 185,215 809,818 4,300, 3&3 493,748 170,285 16,872 1,347,330 131,758S 103,219 1,285,008 64.6-13 tS9, 975 62,420 X92. 356i 679. 745 4.32,758 Quanlily. Value. 2,3U1,500 .329,07., 16,312, 160 311,949 1,723,473 147,2112 .............. 9,443,511 2,710,721 870,7:.1 21,42S 22, 31-, .............. 46.3, 14 2%2,817 119,4s, 5, 74R, 263 137, 8rli 90%, 191 5lIj, 75 i 41,631, 93- 1, 56t. 4 1. 2, 658, 848 447, 193 .............. 4,2u7.9,; 15, 0,13 58; 207,114 2, 510,429 98, 491 19, 91,872 707,22, 573, 478 392,14.2 .............. 919, .su .............. 2, SS4, S 13, ,'Jl, 2S 1 99.3, 17'. 20, 7i),'092 1,t.0 91,'.i 7, 474, 1i4 ., 063, 9-:, .31,45 1,724 13, 39092.1. 11 .:i l, 40. P'i, Q47, 27,i 132. 634 );,.27% "1. 740 S.)5,i.5" .'.11, I 3 .0 I 'I ", ,20,329 152,7.,11 26,721,240 1,i69,451 269, 64,6i00 1,25.5,-'i 12.2 lqiJ 197, 5.,,< ,3 9. 751 .i13, l31 1, 5 .*,6 91, 2,. Y..', 4-2-,3 SC.; '13, 717 293, 125 441i. l; .,097, 02S j .35, 1 ; .............. 4i,67-0 201 .............. 11411, 1 2. v.!J.39 13333J.JIS 137,i023 .'1,93.j3 %, ,b2,372 12,579,876l 41, 660,4753 1,951,l160 2,396.109 39,% 742 12,'i73. 630 .............. 414,35U0 ............. 4 33, 121 .... ......... .............. i 2,43,6,751 31, 1:,444 4.0 30, 401 11,7. 31 1 1,45533,u02 2, 600. 171 l. 1. 'is 191,231. 207.0.31 742, 43i. 1,91?, 151 13i6, Q' 1,213,010. 10,110,431 , l167,321 269, 47. 10.1, O :1 2',378, 3*, 275,822 3:21,939 2,.547,933 137.09. 1,071,029 5.5,494 q, 05.31 6011 983 ,.5i. 425., 73., I I I - I SUPPLEMENT TO COMMERCE REPORTS. 1915 1916 Articles. Quantity. Value. Quantity. Value. Articles wholly manufactured-C. ,r inr ir,. P] aper- "Ganni" and "UIsuyo".......pounds.. I ;.,?" .'.",i :i 162,450 $42,612 I'ur vr.e nI ........................ do.... 2, I,' C4'. 87.532 7,362,962 461.557 l'o-..-.l iin I i th-* nw.i- r.. e .......... do.... .............. 1,739,493 .............. 2,6126, o00 l' il -.r 1ir,............................ d, ... 2,350.042 1, 0, '87 2, rS. 158 2,441,312 Screens................ ........... number.. 49, R5 '., 3?7 r.>, 6 80, 734 Shirting and sheetings ............ yards.. 35,741,891 1,705, 059 51,140, 800 2,650,921 Silk tissues, babntai.............. pounds.. 176.622 3T, 4?5 16i0, 0 755,060 So,'ks and stockings.............. dozen.. 1,000,120 ::., ,71 7 1,473,408 60m. TA 1-.i.. toilet......................... do.... 947,456( 381, 898 1, 1 .2,:.47 4i1. *.') l ,.v ........I ............................. .............. 98 .0 ............... I 4'i. iS rmnil.r lI ,. European............ number.. 1. "1. 2"7 518,182 2,598.990 :. ',,.,i Total.................................................. 30,20f, 450 .............. 50,975, 627 All other articles............................. .............. 20, 49,468 .............. 50, 865,528 Grand total........................................... 98,502,518 .............. 165,055,663 A few of the large increases are due to higher riiarket values, one or two of the articles which show the gre:ltest incrne:l' i in value, suh as copper and matches, having actually deer~tsed in nam unt. In 1916. 51,000.000 pounm ds of copper, valued at $13.400. (i0, were exported. as cnnmared to the larg-r quantity of 61,000.000 1)ponds worth only $9 600.000, in 1915. The same w:s true of matches. of which 31.000.000 p-ross, worth $8 600.000. wePP exM I'rtd nlat vear. as compared to 32,500.000 gron,. worth $.),800 000, in 1915. With the-o exceptions, however, the exports of practically all of the important commodities sold here increased nearly as much in qanntitv as in value, the most notable gain' bing' in cotton yarns and textiles and the other commodities listed below: Increases. A rli .'I :. In quantity. 1- 1i Cotton: Varns...............................................pounds.. 3, 18,000 Te-tiles............................................ ..yards.. 47,410,000 Carpets ...................................................... .............. Towels............................................... do-en.. 46, 000 Fnit underwear...................................... do.... 4,30.000 Hosiery.................................................... 473,000 Handkerchiefs....................................... do.... 286,000 Sulphur................................................pounds.. 19,136,000 F urs ............................................................ .............. Glass manufactures ............................................ ........ Bats, straw ..............................................doen.. 212,000 I aeaucered ware.......................................................... Paper..................................................pounds.. 5,182,000 Poro lain and earthenware................................... ............., Rubber tires............................................ pounds 245,000 T o.. ............................................................ ............. In value. 84,100,000 2, OM.000 674,000 404,000 5,810.000 283,000 144,000 477.000 88,000 1,231,000 1,262,000 73,000 371.000 :'7, 000 "'",000 811,000 443,000 Per rent of value. JAPAN-KOBE. Goods Shipped from Osaka. Exports to all countries during 1915 and 1916 from Osaka are shown in the following table: 1915 1916 Articles. Quantity. Value. Quantity. Value. Food, drink, and tobacco: In a natural state- Beans and peas...............pounds.. Fish, dried and salted...........do.... Mandarins..................... do.... Mushrooms, dried.............. do.... Seaweeds and cutseawoods.....do.... Total............................... Partly or wholly prepared- Agar-agar or isinglass, vege- table...................... pounds.. Beer, in bottles.................dozen.. Bonito fish (katsuobushi), boiled and dried....................... pounds.. Cigarettes................. thousands.. Confectioneries and'sweetmeats........ Flours, meals or groats of grains and starches.................... pounds.. Foodstuffs, in tin package and bottle... Pea cheese (miso)............ pounds.. Rico wine (sake)............. gallons.. Soy............................. do.... Sugar, refined............... pounds.. Tea............................. do.... 524,021 279,916 8,437,288 163,783 6,544,892 .............. 258, 035 143,442 77,429 65,035 1,031,913 .............. 612,517 495,719 80,977 15,569,042 315,135 Total............................. ............... Raw materials: M anure ................................... .............. Tim bers ................................... .............. Total.............................. ..... .. ..... ....... Manufactures for further use in manufacturing: Bleaching powder................pounds.. Brass and yellow mdtal, plates and sheets, pounds................. .............. Brass and yellow metal, wire...p..pounds.. Colza oil............................ do.... Copper- Ingots and slabs................ do.... Plates and sheets............... do.... W ire ........................... do.... Cotton wadding.....................do.... Cotton yarns........................do.... Iron tubes...........................do.... Leather .............................do.... Soya-bean oil .......................do.... Sulphuri? acid......................do.... T otal.................................... Articles wholly manufactured: Ankle bands.................... do-eu .... Bags and sacks....................number.. Brushes................................... B uttons................................ ... Candles......................... pounds.. Cement, Portland...................do.... Clocks...........................num ber.. Clothing, European........................ Cotton- Blankets.................... pounds.. Flannel....................... yards.. Nankeens, imitation............ do.... Nankeens, imitation, dyed....... do .... Shirtingand sheetings........... do.... Striped tissues................ pieces.. T-cloths....................... yards.. Threads..................... pounds.. Towels.........................dozen.. Towels, Japanese................do.... 1,345,392 1,765,212 235,173 201,.54S 8, 893, 4 29 2,827,154 186,349 223.590 70, 150,89S 782,617 465,833 2,SO0 1,681,858 462,684 135,94S .............. 25,946 22,868,248 99, 83 440,360 3,789,220 71,318,317 651,602 79,801,360 95,757 17,592,924 18, 125 537, 809 10,602 514,155 12,098 176,505 53,517 92,695 348,970 83,549 188,793 19,307 52,639 11,313 36,744 71,855 16,379 349,671 32,157 648,039 32. 570 836,381 27-457 9,598,126 164,308 5,983,753 363,828 169,760 67,734 140,390 ,1842,420 .............. K586,2435 514,268S 73.261 20,223,997 383,964 1,513,350 ............... 24V ,579 .............. 171,90S .............. 432,4S7 ............ .1,556 329.9S0 47,s59 12.991 1.959,3.89 579, 501 .10,197 23,679 11,633,467 27,3'2 245,999 105 28,744 2.047,23.5 4,057.189 473,913 331.933 17,94S. 112 631. 562 370,684 1,101.196 56,360 071 2. 4t. 496 989,164 10,920 3,401,660 $23, SS2 17,387 185,98&1 54, 1.1 120,480 401,88SS4 128, 896 214,345 17,032 131.323 1S.209 i'4,331 95,6.3 23.26G 368,013 29,881 748,715 440,056 2, 21, 652 .34. 912 323,351 85s,166 92,Q,25 1,137, 72 132,111 25,11A 4,309,69) 191,S89- 97,472 121,339 12,433,101 137.228 194 ,03:3 1.05< 73,223 14,970,8.39 ..............I 19,254,857 11S,217 633,900 170.037 64,966 201,143 127,2;'t 75,613 ........ .. 220, lo 193,657 ...... .. ... .I 117,42- 2,277 14., 1 5.40.1 110.067 9,6 1.U2 I 47,145 116,709 :.'17.5 11. ". 33 5 99 ...... ..1172 94,411 992, 'M2 268, 70.1 246,922 14,227,5311 1,012,363 2, n7, 216 I 6>.9412.72 2. 258, 206 20,912 174,1,,;A 16,869 4,144.51103 ', 1)A, 4, 4 5,088,690 0 0,937 :2,u07.5 301,864 S48,416 21.829,.587 1,198,140 86. F.I0 6i91,103 249,341 197,532 732,716 370,011 3,595 35,443 8,445 SUPPLEMENT TO COMAIMERCE REPORTS. Articles. Articles wholly manufactured-Continued. Cotton-Cont inued. Twilled tissues.................y .r ;. Underwear, tknit.............do .en.. Other tissues........................... Counterpanes ..................... do en.. Fans ............................. number.. Footwear.................................. Glass bottles and flas'- s............ do en.. Glo es ........ x .................... do.... Hats, caps, and bonnets................... Iron manufa tures......................... Iron pans and ri'e kettles.................. Jinri'-isha........................number.. I aoruered ware........................... I amps and parts thereof .............. I oo" iii- glass....................dozen.. Machinery and parts thereof- Cotton gin and parts thereof ........... Implements and tools, agricultural, and ma 'hines..... ............. Other machinery and parts............ Matlhies- Safety..........................gross.. Other...........................do.... Medicines, prepared....................... Mousseline de laine................ yards.. Oil, hair, toilet or perfumed............... Paini ........................pounds.. Paper- European, printing............. do.... Fnropogn, other................ do.... u, hii. ........................sheets. . Pot cry .................................... Ropes, bags, and mats of straw............ Sashes ..................................... Scientilq' arti-les ........................... SiP- tissues and ,otton miktures.... yards.. Sill- and -otton satins.............do.... Soil-s and stokings............... do en.. Soap, toilet......................... do.... Toilet powder............................. T oys................................ ...... Umbrellas and parasols, European, number........................... Vessels, steam...................number.. Wire, insulated electric.......... pounds.. Wood, manufactured ...................... Total .................................... All other articles........................... Grand total.............................. Quantity. 83,531,787 643,294 36, 069 2,300,408 1,348,041 166,010 .............. .............. 470 ...........237 6,499,237 391,108 11,012,365 562,145 864,252 6,762,071 895, 980 72,883,392 .............. .............. 835,076 680,882 1,035,600 .............. 597,562 1 341,933 ......... .. Value. F4,3r-7, n(2 '1".', 7 ". I 527,329 139,994 55,539 127. 140 "ll, ",'**J 71,809 138, 666 418, 800 11,143 8,680 13,567 182,945 168,411 27,030 32,669 544,726 87,622 1,323,197 153,233 92,545 49,920 58,092 278,396 64,297 135,624 175,678 13,718 11,783 47,393 79,362 182,211 269,204 220,704 45,231 140,021 186,710 59,820 71,6655 71,057 Qui nti il ,. 89,397,674 1,528,602 .............. 51,218 2, 1-7, 182 ........ -.. 3,310,182 399,122 .............. 176 .............. 5,190,143 .............. .............. 465,872 8,614,861 8833,646 S1,050,495 14,437,492 3,109,232 74,944,896 887, 650 1,206,427 1,362,909 553,150 1 770,496 .............. Value. $5,313,657 2,759,305 1,938,537 234, 779 36,247 42 i.63 542,720 259,790 234,009 1,325,250 28,007 4,109 22,656 350, 414 323,694 10, 889 59,633 987,596 156,882 1,504,415 221, 136 151, 95 88,370 89,971 874,926 299,636 205,265 535,467 10,603 32,740 48,098 84,461 227,466 713,906 391,605- 74,750 275, 178 195,272 124,625 189, 783 119,453 .............. 20,323,550 I.............. 33,436,681 .............. 9,141,388 i...............I 14,457,676 .............. 46,770,584 ............. 70,689,916 A-s with Kobe, the most notable increase in exports from Osaka last year was in cotton goods. Yarns decreae-rd considerably in quan- tity, from 70,000,000 to 46,000,000 pounds, but increased nearly $1,000,000 (from $11,600,000 to $12,400,000) in value. Cotton piece good-, knit underwear, and hosiery in,'roaied in value from $13,000,- 000 to $20,000,000. Cotton goods and yarn tak'.-n together comprised slightly less th1jn half of Osaka's total exports last year. The other most notable gains were in brass sheets, copper ingots, and matches, although the actual quantity of the last named shipped was smaller than in 1915. Official Inspection of Goods Exported. A very interc .ting development during the year in connection with export trade was, as reported by the local press, the institution by the Prefecture of Osaka of a system of official inspection of certain JAPAN-KOBE. goods destined for export. For the present it. is proposed to include among these soap, glassware, and underwear, although later on it is expected that the system will be extended to include other lines-. The object of this inspection is the desire among the more progres- sive Japanese to fully grasp their present opportunity in world trade by assuring and improving the quality of the goods exported. It is also reported that the Department of Agriculture and Commerce of the Japanese. Imperial Government is at present engaged in the com- pilation of regulations designed to prevent the export of goods of inferior quality. The method proposed is the appointment of official inspectors to be attached to every trade guild, all goods being sub- mitted to their inspection before exportation. Imports at Kobe from All Countries. Imports at Kobe from all countries, by articles, were as follows during the past. two years: 1915 1916 Articles. Quantity. Value. Quantity. alue. Quantity. Value. Quantity. Value. Food, drink, and tobacco: In a natural state- Eggs, fresh....................pounds.. Beans, peas, and pulse........... do.... Rice ........... ...............do.... Soya beans......................do.... W heat......................... do.... Total............................. .... Partly or wholly prepared- Flour, wheat................ pounds.. Milk, condensed................ do.... Sugar........................... do.... Total ................................. Rnw materials: Cotton- Ginned...................... pounds.. In seed........................ do.... Hemp, jute, flax, etc ................do.... Hides, cattle.........................do.... Lacquer.............................do.... Nitrate soda, crude..................do.... Oil cake..............................do.... Phosphorite..........................do.... Rapeseed......................... do.... Rubber, India...................... do.... Sesame seed......................... do.... Shells of Mollusca....................do.... Sulphate ammonia...................do.... W ool...............................do.... W ood .................................... .. . Total..................................... Manufactures for further use in manufacturing: Aluminum ingots................ pounds.. Bismuth.............................do.... Copper pipes and tubes..............do.... Dyes, atificial...................... do.... Fats, animal........................do.... Indigo, artificial......................do.... Iron: Bars and rods................... do.... Pigs.............................do... Pipes and tubes..................do.... Plates and sheets.................do.... Plates and sheets, tinned........ do.... Rails ..................... .... do.... Wire, galvanized................. do.... Lead ingots and slabs.............. do.... Leather..............................do .... 4,564,932 33,565.333 127,024,2136 47,575,733 30,426,933 776,933 2,959,620 20,135,733 621,04.3,4 66 10,592,533 18,826, f?07 2,97.5,700 1,352, 482 32,633,560 533,222,266 39,683,33.3 7S5,772,133 2,763,944 8,525,733 9,808, 385 27,088,933 30,750,792 $301,101 532,332 1,747,623 68, 235 620,9 81 4,102,248 36,216,933 73.996,669 23, 64, SO0 36,449,600) 3,882,272 ............. 20,373 300,666 285,731 1,924, .37 522,S90 10,827,333 828,997 .............. 72,637,120 737 501, 600 324,729 20,066,400 1,299,522 17,495,193 441,203 3,.066,522 294,112 1,298,982 758,398 48,166,499 4,777,795 616,300,266 201,991 101, 964, 00 1,418,660 51,255,866 1,096,246 3,927,654 2260,611 7,781,433 825, 864 13,079,081 912,081 10,824,800 8,512,821 23,008,616 186,044 .............. .............. 93,933,197 .............. 1,000,676 266,660 69,396 1,237,791 3,225,064 4,930 59,363,22.3 146,622.,852 4,070,0 53 110.2.3.717 13, 6O,,7SN0 1,0112,12.3 17.828, N77 19,096, 04.; 818,780 190,757 139,320 16,598 V90, 904 196,158 11,355 1,216,08.5 1,319,076 161,476 2,495,5)01 619,2.51 :'1,9 9; 00, 2'S5 877,623 403,014 948,922 85,098 .............." 467,988 1,235,889 139,368,185 142,051,166 12,05 ,. 136 224, i0, 26.3 22. 11 112 I.I o,2. v 7 12,7,S%.-;64t 3.770J. 962 1,029,210 .*27.3,344 602,451 1.118,072 352,149 642,898 2, 98.,014 7, 91 219, 183 320,471 547,545 92,060,610 649,403 1,413,268 594,227 283,691 1,575,652 5,724,026 651,228 1,074 ,206 2,014,446 198,112 1,096,680 403,073 8,881,614 481, 422 117,101,658 567,054 205,733 ....... ...... 989,'4SS 103,156 4,520,911 2,948,515 588,210 6,841,315 1,413,989 52,210 671,851 2,123,872 690,947 SUPPLEMENT TO COMMERCE REPORTS. Articles. Manuf 'ct ures for further use in manufacturing- Cont inued. Ni L+el grains, blocks, and ingots ....do.... Paper, pulp...........................do.... 1 hl I .i ,;i i I. I. ............................do.... Yellow...........................do.... Potash. chlorate of.................. do.... Sodaash ............................. do.... Soda, Vaustic........................ do.... Sillk, wild............................. do .... Tinh i.-,1- and slabs................. do.... V.,l 1,in .I vegetable, fragrant....... do.... Wax, paraffin (free)..................do.... '1 1\ paraffin (other)............... do.... Yarns: Cotton.......................... do.... I inen ............................do.... Wor- i-. and woolen.............do.... Zin.'- Ingots and slabs.................do.... Plates and sheets (free).......... do.... Plates and sheets (other).........do.... Total................................. Articles wholly manufactured: Alpacas. W t..................square yards.. Bi'-y'les and parts thereof................. Cotton satins... ......... square yards.. .Cotton vcivets and plushes........... do.... Fle tri motors and il, i.in1o;.... .punnd_.. Glass plates and sheets ..................... Bats, caps. and bonnets.................... Iron nails........................ pounds.. Machinery: Spinning............................... All other ...... ...................... . Oil, kerosene and pr.ir,' ni...... cnllon.. Paper: Imitation Japanese and tissue..pounds.. .1 i11 i nF ........................ do .... Other .................................. Pen'ils..............................gross.. Shirlings and sheetings, bleached, square yards...................................... Toilet. and fancy goods.............. ... Watches......................... number.. 1 jr. insulated, electric.........pounds.. Woolen lotl hs and serges....souare yards.. Woolen (lot hs, wool and cotton mixed, square yards............................. Total..................................... All other articles............................... Grand t otal.............................. 1915 Quantity. Value. 1,697,795 67,092,391 2n0. 873 1"0.496 5, 388, 991 33,672,282 8,577,227 121. 3333 1,37'1,991 I'l 093 3,127, 800 3,833,370 210, 017 160, 908 198,032 4,815,816 602,224 182.,035 123,048 ............ - 4,307,728 441,212 4.',095 1,252,685 6,486,754 1,303,794 4,492.345 2,281,896 38,455 38,077 660,382 1.233,246 $605,512 1,618,023 140,085 55,150 1,371,836 359,051 213,080 135,000 473,268 378,787 146,013 204,357 74,5%5 13,155 118,063 487,321 86,457 22,312 15,691,443 27,263 65,440 455,232 10W,4S3 79,641 181,753 24,241 43,542 399,961 1, 584, 098 938,819 55,234 ,.1% 024 31'1, 993 2,710 163.392 28,633 73,071 4,368 335,064 429, 031 .............. 5,523,993 i.............. ............ 14,344,472 .............. .............. 134,204,374 .............. Ginned cotton, of which $!p2,000,000 worth was imported last year compared with $72,000,000 in 19157 consiit ittd half of the total im- ports. The principal in'cr'a-, in important. lines, however, were in the manufacturer,., of iron, brought here for further use in manu- facturing, the value of which iit.-rci>.-d frlnm $,;,000,000 to $16,000,000, or 166 per cent; in lead ingots, which, though they decreased in quantity from 19,000,000 to 3,000,000 pounds, increased in value from $877,000 to $'2.123,000; and in paper pulp, which rose from 67,000,000 to 73,000,000 pounds in quantity and from $1,618,000 to .-'2.:0'.000 in value. Imports into Osaka from All Countries. The following table shows import-, at Osaka from all countries during 1915 and 1916. Raw cotton was the large-t article of im- Quantity. 1,179,017 73,849,210 22q.""0 1 n, .* 2.22v8 RAR 7, 1 ,25 1,203,908 220,788 I3, 2.'7,436 4., i!014 213,404 7,252 404,233 3,116,009 233,004 579,520 76,932 3,118,340 340,440 427,025 7,303,704 3,275,605 1,922,573 6,504,8S8 7,169 1,529,860 ............. 39,686 4,816 492,791 1,000,869 Value. l127..7i7 2, 561, 5%4 108,012 75,170 F4 O. 2S3 -11 1:7 417, 177 i2? 73 1 651,524 247,668 102 437 6. 275 32-', 7 423,928 44,345 100.247 28, 758,55 21,879 81,542 361,410 91,127 100,939 452, 601 57,613 340,130 7 ;'.5 7 2, '0 141 41. i, '. . 125,600 508.298 668,496 10.634 139,586 60,711 131,501 733 367,394 461,599 8,137, 130 28,954,584 186, 488,386 ~_ JAPAN-KOBE. port at Osaka, as it was at Kobe, forming nearly one-third of the total purchases in 1916. Notable increases are also shown in pig iron, Chinese hides, and in many other articles of less relative im- portance. Articles. Food, drink, and tobacco: Unprepared- Beans, soya..................pounds.. Partly or wholly prepared- Sugar- Raw ........................do.... Refined......................do.... Raw materials: Bones, animal........................do.... Borate of soda.......................do.... Brisutes.............................. do... Cotton- Ginned ......................... do.... In the seed.......................do.... Flax, China grass, ramie, etc.........do.... Hemp and jute..................... do.... Hides and skins, battle...............do.... Wood: Spruce and pine............. do.... Lacquer.............................do.... Manures, other.......................... Phosphorite ................. pounds.. W ool ................................ do .... Manufactures for further use in manufacturing: Brass and bronze, old............. pounds.. Caustic soda, crude..................do.... Copper inguts and slabs.............do.... Fats, am mal.........................do.... Irons-- Bars, rods, T-angle, etc..........do.... Pigs............................ do.... Pipes and tubes................ do.... Plates and corrugated, galvanized sheets.......................pountas.. Plates and corrugated, galvanized sheets, tinned.............. pounus.. Plates and corrugated, galvanLzed sheets, other................pounls.. W ire............................ do..... Old-or scrap.....................do.... Metal,old........................... do-.... Nickel ingots and slabs..............do.... Silk, wild............................do.... Soda ash.............................do.... Straw plaits...........................do.... Zinc ingots and slabs ................do.... Articles wholly m.mufactured: Cotton satins............... square yards.. Dynamite........................ pounds.. Liquorice........................ .. do.... Machinery and parts thereof................ Morphine, hydrochlorate of and sulphate of............................... ounces.. Nails, rivets, screws, bolts, nuts, etc...... Vessels, steam or sailing..........number.. Woolen cloths and series of wool and cot- ton mixed....................... yards.. All other articles........................... - I Quantity. 4,537,333 36,290,266 4,512.533 2.331.013 1, 021. 9A9 268.,373 119, 771,303 3,095,466 5.243,760 2,506, 192 8, 320,592 6,320,304 265,748 .............." 80.820.400 1,670,417 2,043,924 3.649,367 1.0x2,438 3. 703, 800 6,212,537 45.61a.5207 1, 893, 781 1.522,172 3,204.647 12.000,017 2.119.552 2,729,102 .............." 8,328 15%,,017 2,871,5 85 1,29b,212 562,408 1,355,795 483,236 916,636 ............... 77,491 246,724 S..... ......... Total.... .................. .......... .............. Value. Quantity. 549,935 957.904 132,036 30,349 44.209 95.377 10,657,880 95.745 300,520 90,722 1,656,545 122.594 54,0933 30,037 476,550 185,521 181.502 95.747 90,931 246,503 148.529 333. 725 53.858 51,467 133.8S3 298,716 63, 7.54 27, 32 76,749 4.227 857.244 29,344 130,007 49,2-6 132.987 76,361 38, 829 70.0354 240,701 30,599 68.025 0,716,628 25,229,561 6,332,133 16,916,133 5,0 35.933 7.021.292 2,447.118 521,364 109,825,3467 3, 38.000 8,080,705 3.917.417 10,743, 392 7,330,576 447,872 L2,1 Oc 1,262. 281 2.152,563 3,776.548 2,262, 44v 4,993,318 17,514,920 163.7,7,475 1,515,148 1,301,071 5, 323,136 7.236,577 1.408,863 11, 41,.2J5 739.965 18, 091.020 1, 131, UGO 3, 171,b77 2, 27,617 1,430,202 1,172,56.3 .............. Value. 579,628 470.213 159,642 58,655 184,993 189,978 12,634,871 138.358 470,099 118,595 2,105,068 151.012 95,569 51,087 72,701 185,678 230,971 232,939 3S6,591 379.431 663.012 2, 3S0, 34 71,653 69,S48 305,918 307,817 68,521 141.007 162.112 .............. 87 0.196 454.029 88,819 412,997 239,037 43M. 033 54, 526 320,; 71 194,946 678.510 .............. 201,572 1 55, 122 280,147 81,646 .............. 14,390,202 .............. 40, 867.381 Imports from United States and Possessions into Kobe and Osaka. The following table shows the imports of this district, from the United States, Hawaii, and the Philippine Islands during 1915 and 1916. It will be noted that in 1916, 23 per cent of the district's total imports came from the United States, of which ginned cot- ton, valued at about $27,000,000, formed just one-half, and iron bars, sheets, pig iron, etc., made up nearly half of the remainder. SUPPL.EII'NT TO CO:M IERCE REPORTS. Sales by the United States to Kobe increased 70 per cenL and to Oslka 310 per cent in 1916, as compared with 1915. 1915 1916 Articles.- - Quantity. Value. Quantity.. Value. IMPORTS INTO KOBE FROM UNITED STATES. Aluminum ingots and slabs.......... pounds.. Antifebrin ............................... do.... Bicarbonate of potash....................do.... hlon t, animal............................ do.... Carbolic acid.............................do.... Carbon black.............................do.... Catechu and other tanning extracts......do.... Caustic soda, crude..................... do.... Cedar wood..................... cubic meters.. Chlorate of potash....................pounds.. Cocaine................................ounces.. Condensed milk.......................pounds.. Cotton, ginned.......................... do.... Drills, bits, reamers, and screw taps............ Drugs, chemicals, and medicines, n. e. s........ Dynamite........................... pounds.. Endless felts for paper making.......... do.... Formaline.............................. do.... Galls, oak bark, and similar tanning materials, pounds...................................... Glass plates....................square meters.. Glass sheets..............................do.... Glue..................................pounds.. Hides and skins: Cattle and buffalo....................do.... Dyed................................do.... Iron: Bands and hoops....................do.... Bars, rods, T-angles, etc.............do.... Ingots and slabs.....................do.... Nails................................do?... li ............................... do .... I'll'., and tubes......................do.... i la.- and sheets....................do.... Plates and sheets, galvanized........ do.... Rails ................. ..............do.... Screws.............................. do.... Wire................................ do.... Wire, galvanized.....................do.... Wire, rods..........................do.... Lead ingots and slabs...................do.... Liquid gold, silver, and platinum......ounces.. Logwood extracts.....................pounds.. M alt.....................................do.... Machinery: Dynamos, electric motors................. ( as compressors............................ Metal or wood-making machinery.......... -, "' in.: 1rj3ihines........................... Machinery, miscellaneous................. Parts of machinery......................... Milk sugar............................pounds.. N ipl:1 b ii'. ............................ do.... TIl urii.L i n i', miscellaneous.......gallons.. 1i r-.., i, ai i petroleum, in cans.....do.... Mineral, miscellaneous........... pounds.. Volatile, vegetable (ii ,irr.,nit ........do.... Papers: Cardboard..... ..................do.... Imitation Japanese and tissue paper, pounds................. ................. Match........................... pounds.. Packing............................ do.... P n ing. ..................... ... do .... I jrafti'i v.r., .............................do.... Pine, fir, and cedar ............. cubic meters.. I'ltmmn iii..l slabs, bars, plates, and sheets............ pounds.. Pulp............................ .... do.... Quicksilver.............................do.... Rosin....................................do.... 664,296 18,217 527,625 1,082,113 .............. 241,177 220,109 1,940,200 41 2, 256, 615 8, 425 1,722,177 166,239,333 23, 806 94,034 1,078, 780 8,810 44,640 .............. 365,438 23,158 432,949 43,605,677 205, 884 569,773 1,129,449 2,909,988 60,530,838 717,334 1,494, 295 509,687 2, q??, 1'S 1 4, .,4 4,579,633 3,435,443 15,360 823,502 869,200 . ............. .............. .............. .............. 424,357 4,115,315 8,978,589 18,836 309,836 5,166 .............. 403, 789 3,878,084 6,781 6,-181 $128,037 12,770 76,789 36,904 16,437 16,000 53,375 2,313 ',ls, 1 5 " *.'_.*, 4-li 1 180,804 21,197,977 15,176 106,671 25, 064 12,086 18, S3 26,658 26,790 75, 889 31,140 13,306 853, 628 27, 951 18,276 10,935 95,071 1,160,032 24, 000 40,684 80,565 554,264 88,713 143, 884 94,045 139,267 37,982 68,900 11,822 86,881 25, 734 15,174 3,854 35, 745 167,288 26,818 .............. 61,518 612,621 252,239 60,083 12,106 539 .......... .... 23,814 168,519 71,119 39,543 32,392 4,346,952 1 102,558 948,922 41,712 276,029 2,165,012 654,173 385,649 1,201,950 6,403,385 795 990, 454 17,697 1,928,952 207,888,933 236), 50 3,, 7.132 229,705 4,534,050 46,117 239,277 336,136 .." .-7 .in, "..52 1,475,497 112,745, 744 8, 872, 406 7,236,984 2,257,920 8,963,421 131, 437, 206 14, 455,166 1,401,793 605,068 3,315,524 10,572,2.54 8,872,406 13,067,895 20,473 83, 269 1,206,133 .............. .............. 253, 236 530,911 2,535.960 10,609,761 65,516 830,956 645,130 553,848 671,365 1,299,114 14,126,728 10,462 52 6,509,718 93,121 9,510,901 9,510,901 $568, 760 47,296 156,839 102 883 690,579 61,185 103,758 487,041 57,117 li ':), 732 .. 1,756 219, 174 26,470,967 .57, tl 17 363,065 l !'., 59._', 33,641 84, 516 108,108 176,572 42,974 81,862 63,572 77,309 3,546,490 508, 426 296,959 45,197 419,366 3,622,011 9,,, '. -14 IN 7i, inil 55, 857 350, 706 954,485 63,570 33,437 49,748 32, 541 342,448 111,537 97,738 61,490 231,836 75,527 37,840 41,528 175,113 365.863 344,397 116,295 47,131 54,227 33, 745 37, 135 79,874 721,800 153,987 77,363 219, 31: 95,538 375,864 JAPAN-KOBE. 1915 1916 Articles. Quantity. Value. Quantity. Value. IMPORTS INTO KOBE FROM UNITED STATES-COnD. Salicylic acid........................... do.... Tobacco, leaf............................do.... Vaseline................................do.... Zinc: Ingots, slabs, and grains............do.... Plates and sheets....................do.... All other articles............................... Total..................................... IMPORTS INTO KOBE FROM HAWAII. Coffee................................ pounds.. Hemp and jute ..........................do.... All other articles............................... Total..................................... Oi'ORTS INTO KOBE FROM PHILIPPIN ISLANDS. Copra.. .............................. pounds.. Hemp, jute, and manila hemp...........do.... Shells.. ... ............ ..................do.... All other articles................................ Total..................................... IMPORTS INTO OSAKA FROM UNITED STATES. Aluminum ineots and slabs..........pounds.. Boric soda.............................. do .... Caustic suda, crude......................do.... Cotton, pinned...........................do.... Drugs, chemicals, and medicines............... Dynamite............................pounds.. Hydraulic presses.............................. Iron. Bars, rods, T-angles, etc.......... pounds.. Nails................................do.... Ilipcs and tubes......................do.... Plates and sheets....................do.... Plates and sheets, tinned........... do.... \\ ire, palvanized.....................do.... Lead Inrots and slabs...............do.... Oil, kerosene or petroleum............ gallon.. Parcel-post shipments.......................... Paraffin wax..........................pounds.. Pine, fir, and cedar..............cubic meters.. Sewine machines............................... Vessels (steamer) .....................number.. All other articles............................... 26,053 849.708 285,385 1,088,323 564,859 8, 52 37,417 2,729,726 6,049,645 689,725 47,790 634,725 266 .............. 1, 0'6,942 358, 798 1, 780,994 4,406,306 1, W5, 3,.3 1,223.263 39,933 2,0-14, 71 ............., .............. Total.................................... ... ..... IMPORTS INTO OSAKA FROM HAWAII. Hides and skiins, cattle and buffalo... .pounds.. Tallow, beef .............................do.... All other articles............................... Total..................................... IMPORTS INTO OSAKA FROM PHI IPPINE ISLANDS. Sugar: Raw............................pounds.. Refined..............................do.... All other articles............................... Total.................................... .............. 2,721i 2,795,199............. 2,795,199 .............. .............. $36,443 181, 94 21,626 110 ,058 81, 776 1,470, 259 .............. 29, 888,335 18,854 720, 74 720,337 1,016,114 522, 298 1,190 6, 562 3,0q2 5,402 10,414 ............. 14,686 ............ 92, 09 646,545 66.984i 10,693 817,131 12,855 .............. 18,624 " 12 1,193 .............. 1,074 23,379 11,6_41 41,244 101,999 41,132 37, .T9 1,5!96 238,999 20,212 5,443 .............. '21,168 23S,052" 4, .5,5, 835 9, 90.1. 104 360,488 402, 640 9n6,8 23 2,512, 1I i 2,911,:33 ......... .... 785,036 7,9S 1,389 2,792,860O 1, 101, 175 2,986,322 3,727,410 903, 5 829,021 1,"90,136 .... .. . 899,205 2, 141 .............. $95,203 155. 12 47,477 145,759 q8, 195 2,362,849 ... ........ ... 49,312, 167 909 360 14,626 15,S95 187,769 972, 198 31, 429 20, 901 1,218,297 253,911 81, .53 182, 789 330,349 42,361 287,232 92,413 266,054 147, 44 49,926 136,554 208, &SI 47, 146 64,320 2.53, M67 59, 32 69, i5 57, 494 96,994 55,000 576,491 816,012 .............. 3,367,326 .......... .. ........ i ..... 500 204 110,384 9,041 182 .............. 546 3S6 .............. 10,087 70,370 5,379,733 140,201 .............. 963,460 27,102 102 .............. 190 70,472 .............. 167,493 Tndustries of Kobe District-Labor Conditions. The following figures relating to the kinds and number of fac- tories and their. employees in Kobe, compiled by the prefectural I '28 SUPPI.EM.l'NT TO t'OMMERCE REPORTS. authorities s. include only the e.tabli-lshmm., employing numore than a c*r lain number of operative-. and therefore, as perhaps most kinds of manufacturing are carried on here as household industries, do not convey a ery complete idea of the number of persons engaged herein nmanl'itliring. 1,Hyogo Prefecture, in which Kobe is situated, began keepii,:. these statistics in 1916. The heading Special factories" includes power and lightliw," plants and similar est;,lishwmnt.,. The following. table shov -. the number of factories employing more than 15 persii, and operatives in Kobe during 1916: Number of operatives. Kind of factories. Number of- Male. Female. Total. Dyeing and weaving .................................. 349 8,471 24,596 33,067 Machinery, tool, implement, and other metal .......... 89 31. 07 624 34,231 Chemicals.............................................. 376 20, '.-0 18,978 39,.'.1' Food and drink...................................... 143 0,442- 747 7, 1 s' Other factories....................................... 135 3,387 1,652 5,039 S[, iiI factories...................................... 10 638 120 758 Total........................................... 1,102 73,079 46,717 119,796 Data publi-shed by the Department of Agriculture and Commerce for 1914 show that the ordinary number of working hours in Japa- ne-e factories in that year ranged from 10 to 13; that on the average three holidays per month are enjoyed by operatives; and that the av'era, number of working days per annum was about 305. Somne daily average wage-, according to the same authority, were: Weavers, male, 23 cents; female, 14.5 cents; tailors, 31 to 42; shoe- makers, 36; carpenter.-; 43; pl-lerer.:, 45; nia-,on. 50; bricklayers,. 52.5 and day laborers, 28 cnt,-. These rates increased between 1914 and 1916, being now about 65 cents per day for mason', bricklayers, and carpenters; 45 cents for tailors and workers in similar trades; and 30 cents for day laborers. Wages now show a marked upward tendency, and at present no one need be idle because of lack of oppor- tunity to work. As everywhere else, the prosperity of the conlmmer- cial, indust rial, and capitalist classes is reflected in the condition of the laboring class, which is now far Ib-tter off in Japan than it ever was before. The Cotton Industry. The gr. nt prosperity in the cotl on indii.,itry during 1916 was due primarily to favorable-ii:irk.t and political conditions in China, the gi (.t market for Jap):i .,i., cotton yarns. An important factor was the universal advance in the price of cotton goods at a time when all the Japanese mills had on hand large stocks of yarns made of cotton bought when lower prices prevailed. What is said to be the iir.-t. order from Japan for spindles in the United States was placed by an Osaka weaving company for 30,000 spindles with a :machinery company near Boston. The supply of spindles from England fell from 240,000 in 1914 to 200,000 in 1915, and to 68,120 in 1916. This deficit is being met by making the utmost use of the spindles on hand. JAPAN-KOBE. The following statistics of the cotton industry in this district were published by the Osaka Cotton Spinners' Association: 1915 1916 Countries. Quantity. Value. Quantity. Value. IMPORTS OF RAW COTTON FROM- Balei. Bales. India ................... .... .. 4,89, 7x2 869.857,761 5, 132.905 $82.594.275 United States.............................. ... 1,b16.662 27,876,861 2,206L.291 39,.6S3.5u )0 China ........................................ 591.912 7,66g.510 659.785 9,S'31. 21 French Indo-China............................. 40.589 248.597 8. U.2 871).6~8 Egypt ... ..................................... 108.320 2,901,015 145.449 4,12..6si Chosen ....................................... 38.573 593.048 52.SIS 742.415 Dutch Indies ................................ 1b.200 62.316 50.91S 525. i82 Slam......................................... 10.079 41. 896 17,591 98,5.35 Straits Settlements ............................ 13.367 56,297 65,078 28i,983 EXPORTS OF COTTON YARN TO- Pounds. Pounds. China ........................................ 185.568.191 27.751,607 176.Ob3.011 31.921,244 Hongkong................................... 26.096..354 3.992.209 14. S09.197 3. 920..05 Choson ...................................... 10,675. 164 1.396,721 10, 454, 692 1,637.3204 Philippines.................................. 1. 451.911 325. 472 7.55. 173 226.412 Kwangtung.................................. 5,8.36, 532 826.683 5.914.610 1,039.221 India .......................................... 623,909 202,blS 4,697. 77 1,619.r65 All other countries ........................... 102,769 16,912 790.927 167,815 The: association's figures on the number of factories, output, and other'information follow: lerti. 1915 1916 Item. 1915 1916 CONDITION OF INDUSTRY. OPERATION STATISTICS. Companies.............. 41 40 Yarn produced: Fa tories ................ 161 161 Ringspindle..pounds.. 697,815,013 777.806,n02 Total capital............ $55,08.,200 $6S,645,075 Mute spindle.... do.... 2,992,92u 5,6di,717 Capital paid up......... 541,005,88S 150,. 70,90) Daily output per spindle: Reserve flu ds........... $19,3.31,52 $21,476,1.40 Hinm ..........ounces.. 131 1.1 Spindles: Mue ............do.... 5M 11 Ring.............. 2,754,124 2,825,944 Cotton consumed, Mule:............... 5 1,390 4t,6.0 pounds............... 802,651,160 889,855,143 Twi-iing......... 355, 8I 370,6%1 Op, rati.es: Looms................ 30,068 31,2J5 Male .................. 22,674 24,195 Female ................ 92, 430 95, 349 Hats and Hat Braids. Two of the most important exports in value from Kobe are hats and hat braids, the combined quantities shipped having amounted to $6,241,401 in 1916, compared to $3,968,006 in 1915. The manufacture of hats and hat braids was an important indus- try in this district even before the war, but since supplies from Italy, which was Japan's principal competitor, were cut off, the output here has increased enormously. The so-called Japanese Panama hats were formerly nearly all made from a fiber produced in For- mosa and the Loochoo Islands and made up into hoods or rough unblocked hats here, but during the past few years paper has so far supplanted fiber as a hat-making material that probably more paper than fiber hoods are now produced. The hat braids are of three materials, straw, chip, and hemp, those of the two former being of Japanese and the last of Philippine production. The Panama hoods are woven by hand in Japan, but the braids are shipped without weaving to be sewn into hats by machinery in the United States. SUPPLEMENT TO COMAM !ERCE EI l'- ilTS. The amount, of the,-, articlk.-, with their values, shipped from Kobe to various countries during the past. two years are shown in l;o appended table. A bundle of braid contains approximately 60 lin ar yards of material. Articles and countries of destination. _ Quantity. PANAMAA" HATS. United States .................................. .. -1 1.r Id ..................................... Great Britain................................. HTOi 1., n -' .................................... 1 1 nl l 11 (C'"ll iI 1 L................................ All ,. iI. r countries............................. Total.................................... HEMP BRAIDS. United Si ili ; ............................ ...... Great Britain.................................. Australia...................................... France......................................... British Canada................................ All other countries............................. Total ................................... STRAW BRAIDS. United States.................................. (reat Britain.................................. France...... .................................. Australia...................................... Philippines..................................... All other countries............................. Total ................................... cMIP RAIDS. United States................................ Great Britain................................. France ......................................... Denmark..................................... British Canada............................... All other countries............................ Total ................................... Dozens. 194.lI 9,073 2,721 2,240 2,204 241,724 Bundles. 5 106 2nno , -', 1.1 420,761 1,373,566 115, 080 90,000 10,678,507 Value. 8952,619 228,986 59,974 16,963 14,6253 12,741 1?,,.2, 908 821,046 534,006 63,548 198,759 17,629 7,599 1,642,587 ', 10 1 366,637 :';.n.. IIn ; 256,197 2,339,991 177, 711 389,221 29,644 389, 750 22,404 282,942 19,060 10,369,147 871,653 559,150 17,985 2,207,780 92,381 404,100 19,692 356,565 18,706 . 122,000 3,627 103,300 3,566 3,752,895 155,957 Prosperity of Toy Industry. The incret:-' of nearly 50 per cent in the value of exports of toys from Kobe-from $097,038 in 1915 to $1,430.908 in 1916-is due to ca usc arising from the war. The toy-making industry, which existed only on a comparatively small scale a few years ago, is one to which the manulfactring ability of the Japanese is particularly well adapted. The cost of tovs depends only to a .,,(tindary degree on the cost of the materials of which they are made and primarily on the low cost of artistic workmanship. This. combined with artistic fancy and good taste, the Japanese have to a marked degree, with the result that when German supplies disappeared and serious attention was turned to lhe industry here it went forward with surprising rapidity. Owing to this lal' of compete it ion since the outbreak of the war, the Japanese were able to pass through the learning and experimental stage under peculiarly favorable conditions, -, that when the world's trade re- turns to normal channels they will have established a permanent Quantity. Dozens. 369,837 61,676 N,215 31, r 1 3,280 6,439 453,428 Bundles. 4,620,194 5,270,155 612,515 2,229.250 21 ', .,', i1 141,604 13,091,278 8, 003, 993 5,079,703 1, 787,195 149,756 510,165 153,321 15, 714,133 2,813,065 1,301,782 674,S800 66,000 II 1 212 5,046,859 Value. ?2,017,397 371,1 . 62,132 24,482 17,612 33,167 2,547,933 731,844 73', 149 It, 127 I':5, 071 I,, 2 4 17,742 1,993,479 777, 656 461,130 l,;. '42 10.. 1? "I, l*. 11,085 1,460, 454 138,765 65,495 28,471 ......... .... 3,060 239,535 J I / 1 1 _ /=====------ ----- --' JAPAN-KOBE. industry thoroughly able, toy experts believe, to withstand compe- tition from any source. That opinion, however, applies chiefly to other than mechanical toys, with which Japanese manufacturers have been less successful. The prices of Japanese toys are still high as compared with those of German make before the war. This is due principally to the fact. that the cost of all raw materials has greatly advanced, and because of the newness of the line and relative inexperience of workmen. The latter cause, however, is fast disappearing and the first affects foreign competitors to the same degree as Japanese manufacturers. Exports of toys from Kobe during 1915 and 1916 are given in the appended table: Countries of destination. 1915 1910 Countries of destination. 1915 1910 United Stntes ................. 254.i-18 446,386 Ponlkong .................... 532,255 $4R..30 Great Britain ............... 289.S39 197.327 All other countries............. 8,.45S 2,18.,9,8 British India................ 180.933 2S. 520 Australia.................... III.7t,2 175, .371 Total ................. 987,03s 1,430,903 Philippines ................. 31,143 3t, 027 Manufacture of Shell Buttons. The only buttons manufactured on a large scale are of various species of trochus shells from this country, China, and the South Sea Islands. Before the war, practically only plain so-called "pearl buttons were produced, but of late fancy buttons are also being made in large quantities. In this industry, as in the case of toys, it is believed that Japan has captured a position which will be largely maintained after the war. The quantities and value of shell buttons exported from Kobe in 1915 and 1916 are shown in the table that follows: 1915 1916 Countries of destination. Gross. Value. Gross. Value. United States .................................. 976, 170 $223,S43 3,1.59, 439 5732, 259 Great Brit in...................................... 3,t 5.3,S24 t,23,20.1 4,i.81,824 79% ,293 British India ................................. 914.9.1 212,349 1.010.023 21i, 1 03 Australia...................................... .20,375 140,507 1,041,X7.2 231, 77 Philippines................................... 293.306 19,023 549,505 141,, 50 France .. ..................................... 24.4,111 3,.594 555,792 120,033 All other countries ........................... SuG,851 185.193 1,ti34,8 3 35t, 240 Total..................................... .............. 1,517,712 |.............. 2,.00, 170 Prosperous Year for the Brush Trade-Glass Exports. The brush trade, one of Kobe's leading industries, enjoyed a most prosperous year. Exports of various classes of brushest to all coun- tries in 1915 and 1916 were as follows: 1915 1916 Kind of brushes. Dozens. Value. Dozens. Value. Hair........................................... 402,585 $710,014 713,304 81,036,698 Tooth........................................ 2, 820,684 683,315 2, 880. 389 797,0S7 Nail .......................................... 573,472 194,020 418,487 208, 40 Clothes....................................... 75,024 103,099 101,764 80.705 All other ...................................... ............... 4., 140 .............. 129, 229 Total.................................... ........... 1,767,488 .............. 2,252, 4.59 32 S I'1'I.1i.'M:NT" TO COMM 'E[iE REPORTS. The United St;I<'" piircla-ed hairbriishel. valued at $14S,616 and toothbrushes worth $-1"40,822 in 1916, which were nearly double the respective amounts for 1915. Increa-es in American puircha-es of other kinds of brushes were rel:itively -mall. Although exports friini Kobe of glass of all kinds in 1916 reached the sum of ,.*Th,.;,, only an insignificant part went to the United Staie,. The various kinds of glass exported in 1915 and 1916, to- gether v, iIlh the quantity and value, are shown in the following table: 1915 1916 Kinds. QI ,rtii y.I Value. Quantity. Value. Bottles................................. dozen.. 5,864,427 $563,451 10,412,056 $1,096,300 Tumblers and goblets.................... do.... 2,072,485 '.0 3,044,679 730,229 MItIrr ..r...............................number.. 4,776,079 121, IM 6,772,847 1,0,231 Spectacles...............................do.... 1,664,801 29, 911 2,151,683 53,940 Beads............................................... ........ 100,535 .............. 226,932 Other glass............................. ...... .... ....... 174, 713 .............. 271,754 al.................................... .............. 1,317,3. .............. 2,578,385 The IKatch Trade. The three g:netral classes of matches exported from this district are (1) the cheap.-t. grade of sulphur matches, which are shipped principally from Osaka to China, (2) phosphorus matches -eilt prin- cipally to India and the Dutch East Indies from Kobe, and (3) the best potash matches, which are the only kind senil from Japan to the United States. This latter trade is still relatively small, but is growing, and in view of the diminution of match export:, from Sweden, has been plreo',-fed from attaining far greater importance owing to high freight rates and the diticiulty of obtaining cargo -place. Prices for the best grade of double impregnated matches have incr':i-cd from $12 to $13 per c-.:- of 50 gross of boxes f. o .b. Kobe, before the war, to as high as $23.50 in March, 1917. Freight to the United States. however, is very high and space is obi.aiied with great, difficulty. It will be noted from the following table that the total exports in 1916 slightly dc,'reased in amount, although they iincr'...:-d over 40 per cent in value. This is said to be due to increased cost of produc- tion in Japan because of a shortage of pa t;!. and other ingredients, and of aspen wood for sticks from R -iia. 1915 1916 Countries of destination. Gross. Value. Gross. Value. China ......................................... 6,073,988 $829,857 5,702,510 $1,245,449 11o1 .,,iLr...................................... 6,985,131 1,311,429 6,093,821 1,784,597 1:ril' i.-h i i i................................... 13,627,721 2,630,313 10,646,781 2,854,495 British Straits Settlements.................... 1,895,270 332,541 1,748,414 513,684 Dutch Indies.................................. 1,573,235 271,182 1,456,355 371,642 All other countries .............................. 2,282,046 517,034 5,468,563 1,835,823 Total..................................... 32,437,391 5,892,356 31,116,444 8,605,690 JAPAN-KOBE. Increased shipments of Porcelain and Earthenware-Paper Xarket. The increased exports of porcelain and earthenware in 1916 of over 50 per cent, as shown in the following table, were due chiefly to the cessation of exports from Germany and Austria: Countries of destination. 191 191 Countries of destination. 1915 191 United States................. 38,681 481,801 Dutch Indies................. 1109,728 $225,836 Great Britain. .............. 291,267 17,559 China................... 79,947 161,80 Australia....................... 19,691 573,783 All other countries............ 233,627 332,398 British India................. 166,978 846,637 iritish Straits Settlements... 128,231 178,072 Total................... 1,732,423 2,626,600 Hongkong................... 124,283 201,206 The principal paper market in Japan is Yokohama. The grades exported from this district are tissue, tracing, rice, and copying papers, chiefly of the sorts known as Mino and Tosa." The largest gain in 1916 was made in low-grade papers, which in- creased largely in both price and quantity exported. This was also a line of business very favorably affected by the cessation of German and Austrian competition. The total exports from Kobe and Osaka together amounted to $1,885,512 in 1916 as compared to $600,333 in 1915, more than half this amount being purchased by China and Kwangtung Province. Colza and Fish Oils. As shown by the following table, exports of colza (rapeseed) oil from Kobe to the United States in 1916 were more than six times, and exports of fish and whale oil more than twenty times the ship- ments in 1915: 1915 1916 Destination. Pounds. Value. Pounds. Value. RAPESEED OIL. United States................................ 2,741.590 $156 SR7 15.840.172 $1,017.412 Great Britain................................. 16.394.603 907 0R8 7,971.616 4S5 037 Australia...................................... 1.803.498 100 672 964.742 70. 240 France....................................... 1,776 453 95 906 763 55M 48.649 K wanntune Province ......................... 601. 796 32. 785 699.601 44.446 Hawaiian Islands ............................ 421,321 27,665 384,465 29,744 YISa AND WHU.LE OIL. Great Britain................................ 17.212.421 550.969 9.945.591 388.662 Australia..................................... 3.338,358 114 731 4.475.188 174.377 France....................................... 2,547.733 79.010 2.260 228 103.067 United States ................................ 776.739 25.092 11.918.866 504.127 italy.......................................... 672,448 20.774 .......... .. .............. These large increases are attributed by local exporters in the case of rapeseed oil to the shortage in the United States, due to stoppage of shipments from Russia and Germany to the east coast, to the comparative difficulty of shipping from Japan to Europe, and to unusual purchases of the highly refined grade of rapeseed oil (called here "Shirashime") by a single company in the United States. As prices also have been high for a long time, a larger crop of the seed was grown last year to take advantage of them. The principal supply of rapeseed comes from the northern part of this country, but large quantities of it, and some of the oil itself, 34 SUPPI.EM1.ENT TO COMMERCE REPORTS. are brought here from Manchuria and North China. The oil is ex- pressed from the seed in this district in many small plants. The price of rapeseed oil varied between the extremes of $5.48 and $7.94 per 100 pounds during 1916, but rose during the early months of 1917 to $8.50 in April. The great increase in the exports of fish and whale oil was due to the demand for them in the United States for the manufacture of glycerin and for new purposes for which discoveries of methods of hardening their fats have made them available. It is also reported here that an unusual shortage of these oils existed in the United States owing to the partial failure of the catch of menhaden her- ring. The price of fish oil here varied from a minimum of $3.'1 to a maximum of $5.10 per 100 pounds during 1916, but, like rapeseed, has since advanced. Exports to United States and Possessions. The following table gives the quantities and values of the principal articles invoiced at this consulate for the United States, Hawaii, and the Philippine Islands during the past two years. About 16 per cent of the total exports of this di trict were destined for the United States and its insular possessions in 1916, as compared to about 14 per cent in 1915. Articles. TO UNITED STATES. Antimony ore........................... tons.. Art, works of, more than 100 years old..pieces.. Braids: Chip and straw...................... do.... Hemp .............................. (do.... Brass ingots......................... pounds.. Breadstuffs: Buckwheat.......................bushels.. Millet........................... pounds.. Oats ............................. bushels.. Rice............................. pounds.. Bronze powder....................... do.... Brushes..... ......................dozen.. Buttons.................................gross.. Chemicals, drugs, dyes, and medicines: A carT-ar........................pounds.. 1 .er, and leaves; Pyrethrum flowers pounds.................................. Camphor gum....................pounds.. Ir.10l o paste.........................tons.. Menthol crystals ............... pounds.. Wax, vegetable................... do.... Copper .................................. do .... Cotton, manufactures of thread and yarn waste pounds. ............... ........ Earthen, stone, and china ware: Crucibles............. ..... ...p.. ieces.. Porcelain and earthenware......... dozen.. Eggs: Yolk and albumen of duck and poultry eggs............................... pounds.. Foodstuffs, miscellaneous: In tin packages.................... dozen.. All other.........................pounds.. Fruits and nuts: 1'(anu 1 t.............. ..........do. ... Pine nuts...........................do .... Walnuts...... ..................do.... Furs and skins...................... pieces.. Fibers, and manufactures of: Gunny tares pounds...................................... Gut, cat................................. coil.. Quantity. 3,505 33,909 4,574,199 4,968,130 68, 811 41,977,996 39, 276 43,723,953 1,269,776 1,048,075 254,538 908,509 2,172,972 90 201,532 1,711,992 2,843,543 ...... - 288,798 " 67,018 1,203,038 1,665, 165 58,200 384,300 000 *.1', 65S Value. $1,751,969 168,115 419,669 752,431 40,258 567, 621 15,236 985,179 547,963 290,191 65,257 154,493 454,016 116,202 316,496 166,748 431,694 29,778 76,999 74,170 47,130 5,793 21,876 21,569 15,291 91,883 Qinij it'v. 3,086 25,785 10,132,607 4,876,088 62,852 89,070 6,091,631 35, 703,980 392,410 2,359,102 3,660,118 449,890 781,472 2,214,547 44 110,900 2,192,910 5,062,551 4,233,144 16,177 446,425 633,333 105,459 3,458,065 4,198,022 947,330 416,281 2,308,400 879,279 Value. $1,820,814 141,011 928,896 766,096 87,365 57,824 88,506 828,773 226,477 1,301,600 864, 520 146,003 145,963 1,100,694 89,119 239,894 245,512 1,072,542 145,941 73,690 296,779 264,736 104,100 294,142 150,274 ........... 55,418 204,716 88,211 122,306 JAPAN-KOBE. 1915 1916 ity. Vales. -_Quatty. Value. Quantity. Value. Quantity. Value. TO UNITED STATES-O--Otinued. Hats of paper, Panama straw, rush, etc. dozen.. Manganese ore...........................tons.. Matches................................. gros.. Mattlnrand mate.............. square yards.. M al ware, misoellaneous............. pieces.. Oils: Camphor oil, waste...............pounds.. Castor.............................gallons.. China-wood.................... pounds.. Coconut..................... ...... do.... Cottonseed..........................do.... Creosote ..........................gallons.. Fish................................ do.... Peanut..............................do.... Rapeseed............................ do.... Soya-bean........................punds.. Vegetable (Shirashime)..........gallins.. Oil cake: Linseed......................... .pounds.. Soya-bean..........................do.... Plumbago (graphite)................... tons.. Rugs, of rag and jute............square yards.. Scheelite ore.............................tons.. Seeds: Hemp...........................pounds.. Linseed............................do.... Muslard.............................do.... Rape................................do.... Bilk goods............................. pieces.. Spirits, wines, and beverages: Sake...gallons.. Starch, potato.......................... t ins.. Tea.................................. pounds.. Tennis rackets.........................dozen.. Toys....................................do.... Tungsten ore............................tons.. Vegetables, crude and prepared: Beans and peas...................bushels.. Chili peppers.....................pounds.. Wood, and manufactures of; Bamboos...........................pieces.. Bamboo ware.......................do.... Baskets............................dozen.. Umbrella handles................... do.... Wooden.vare, miscellaneous........pieces.. Zinc dust............................ pounds.. All other articles.............................. Total ............. ...................... TO PmUH.PPINE ISLANDS. Cotton. and manufactures of: Piece goods........................pieces.. Shirts..............................dozen.. Yarns............................pounds.. Other..............................dozen.. Earthen, stone, and china ware: Porcelain and earthen ware.........................dozen.. Enameled ware..........................do.... Glassware..............................dozen.. Matches................................. ross.. Metal manufactures................... pieces.. Vegetable and fruits, raw and prepared bushels..................................... All other articles............................... 269,928 2,435 381,346 8,969,263 115,484 2, 137,912 ,.............. 830,902 76,220 10,000 104,088 12,065,830 168,600 4,168,213 9,213,963 1,659 99,559 ........... ... 1,887,910 975,300 82,060 814,520 43,385 229,104 ........... .. 4,172,000 .......... .. 4,790,833 58 272,136 632,005 7,935,125 2,005,575 540,000 108,924 764,601 78,442 .............. .............. 16,889,827 .............. 33,906,413 80,300 66,128 155,993 80,373 814,929 759,473 834,579 845,405 1,412,663 277,817 815,364 208,632 106, 154 124,510 179,328 192,636 136,082 47,594 284,128 90,414 .............. ............. 115,0 G61 119, 159 453,621 106,730 538,959 145,319 201,260 49,903 282,341 84,167 873,765 43,770 W67,902 64,492 427,005 183,096 189,813 227,528 .............. 904,374 .............. 1,317,621 2,563,394 36,460,775 839,151 34, 885, 101 848,610 267,449 112, 48 152,439 74,069 06,847 48,488 78,057 51,857 1,162,010 92,556 1,392,815 108,521 55,487 64,597 36,277 53,128 .............. 683,706 .............. 595,097 1959,542 54,568 94,523 808, 54 37,081 119,686 .............. 24,496 4,177 13,714 .............. 54,820 531,047 68,959 43,737 89,660 5,074 45,807 .............. 23,777 17,131 3,190 7,485 43,146 100,838 631,405 162,693 60,842 156,002 52,041 93,543 GR,472 196,408 25,005 39, 565 9,591 4,468,864 Total............. ............. ...... ............. TO HAWAIIAN ISLANDS. Breadstuffs: Rie. ....................pounds.. Cotton piece goods .....................pieces.. Foodstuffs, msoeullaneous: In tin packages.....................dozen.. Other............................pounds.. Bilk goods..............................pieces.. All other articles ............................... Total....................... ............. .............. 498,355 2,033 1,179, 111 11,837,275 155,934 3,573,254 210,670 1,249,446 2,910,835 3,430,409 292,983 1,374,330 1,457,974 483,000 72,417,616 1,906,600 6,791,473 11,005,415 3,333 1, 46, 766 54 4,361,488 4,370,098 1,948,261 1,830,482 207,919 273,776 2,225 5,287,691 24,313 6,756,412 1,410,723 1,628,466 5,944,879 5,301, 588 657,153 481,930 1,575,337 585,859 .............. $2,131,030 71,881 360,584 1,378,038 88,726 154,348 108,545 92, 741 213,412 189,689 82,691 416,510 609,566 267,738 8,080,589 661,893 76,885 120,635 71, f08 164,461 91,284 71,768 66,433 51,096 57,680 109,583 149,879 241,315 561,997 56,335 398,058 202,784 1,081,936 147,847 88,489 96,928 323,764 96,524 84,450 71,766 6,663,005 3,375,746 1,730,746 1,731, 282 SUPPLEMENT TO COMMERCE REPORTS. Declared Exports from Yokkaichi. The following table gives the quantity and value of the principal articles shipped to the United States and possessions for the years 1915 and 1916, according to the invoices certified at the consular agency at Yokkaichi, Japan: 1915 1916 Articles. Q n y ---Q tt- V u Quantity. Value. Quantity. Value. Bamboo ware..................................dozen.. Basket ware................................... do.... Bows, violin...................................do .... Cotton goods....................................do.... Fans, paper .................................... do.... Flowers, artiftcial............................... do .... Glassware...................................... do.... Grassware .......................................do.... Guts ........................................ .. do.... Indigo paste .....................................kegs.. Instruments, musical...........................dozen.. Lacquered ware .................................do.... MatUhes, safety..................................gross.. Matting....................................... dozen.. Metal ware ......................................do.... N i-tt inii, ,Ji ui. ..............................pounds.. Sll1, \ ,'J i.bile .................................... do.... Oranges....................................... boxes.. Paper ware...................................dozen.. Peanuts ..................................... pounds.. Pencils..........................................gross.. Porcetain and earthenware.....................dozen.. Rackets, tennis................................. do.... Rattan ware..................................... do .... Rice..........................................pounds.. Silk goods. ............................... dozen bolts.. Slippers........................................ pairs.. Tea...........................................pounds.. ',, -% ......................................... dozen.. Violins....................................... number.. Willow ware...................................dozen.. Woodenware ....................................do.... All other articles....................................... Total ........................................... Goods to the value of $7,875 were invoiced at Yokkaichi for ship- ment to the Philippine Islands in 1915, and $5,218 in 1916. Ship- ments from Yokkaichi to Hawaii in 1916 were valued at $50. Banking Returns of Kobe. The report of the Kobe Clearing House for December 31, 1916, gives the following information concerning its constituent banks on that date as compared with December 31, 1915: Name of bank. M itsui............................... Dai Ichi Ginko...................... Yokohama Specie ................... Sixty-fifth..... ..................... Thirty-eight h....................... Nippon Shogyo...................... Sumitomo .......................... Mitsu Bishi......................... Kishimoto........................... Kajima.......................... Naniwa........................... Thirty-fourth....................... Taiwan.. ...................... Konoike..... ....................... Kawasaki.......................... Kitahama.......................... Chosen...... ....................... H iogo Noko........................ Total, 1916.................... Total, 1915.................... 115,343 33,092 84 16,900 123,024 10,288 14,465 2, 853 2,740 7, 777 329,078 14,796 21,709 16,613 96,744 25,000 1,572, 8903 43 361,528 15,589 41,213 2,250,773 128,216 284 10,936 86,483 ............ $27,274 11,206 29 10,020 14,165 2,450 4,206 1, 027 300,6393 ............ 2, 495 79,300 2,334 6,278 ......8,301...... 7,014 750 736, 484 124 9,192 3, 300 1,090 477,709 14, 471 534 6,003 17,069 241,893 56,713 26,249 6,262 71,9095 118,079 14,516 792 6,647 2,821 143 13,367 15, 901 854,505 18,812 88,534 11,876 40,978 55,228 170,815 91,661 14,620 2,165, 954 33,069 2,097 702,178 32,321 14,325 2,252,365 1,313,970 3,986 20,359 89,390 ............ $28,254 21,308 12,093 12,722 8,540 3,290 477 4,805 3,404 18, 930 3,318 10,893 258,976 2,460 11,855 4,726 2,298 12,949 18,080 3,874 1,636 1,031,260 15,500 3,828 20,134 11,872 2,585 440,839 87, 138 12,792 11,419 28,930 225,989 2,337,180 1,985,111 I............ I Deposits. $1,512,270 6,447,126 3,295,368 3,708,230 3,835,686 3,659,537 3,843, 593 5,571,898 4,792,981 1,946,957 2,895,503 3,127,723 2,354,288 1,286,172 7,697,341 60, 799 93,068 1,528,928 60,657,468 39,612,993 Loans. $2,694,679 854,920 291,223 781,126 2,306,655 347, 723 3,004,699 1,361,500 2, 701,008 521,731 7,629 8,136 4,975 23,500 6,362,244 10, 969, 482 32,241,230 15,651,841 Overdrafts. $146,034 454,160 283,104 306,777 981,525 133,024 63,422 99,082 633,100 265,352 474,586 120,399 435,784 376,754 649,672 14,..0' A,003 5,445,344 3,734,662 Bills dis- counted. $2,871,077 7,795,507 1,064,082 2,404,826 1,177,494 3.5,i1. 399 5, 185,273 573,162 1,089,887 2,766,280 2,377,902 1,759,191 1,377,109 1,950,016 24,501 106,275 11,172 39,136,491 34,067,344 Cash on hand. $420,653 499,713 1, 101,818 522,530 276,876 298,931 291,186 334,081 509,484 148,088 133,469 223,036 189,436 76,978 632,509 38,675 18,078 8,725 5,724,266 4,011,322 JAPAN-KOBE. These figures show an increase of 53 per cent in deposits and 100 per cent in loans in one year. Besides the foregoing Japanese banks here there are three foreign banks, of which one is American and two British. The returns of these are not published, but there is reason to believe that they en- joyed quite as prosperous a year as the domestic institutions. During 1916 there was a large and general increase in the opera- tions at the clearing houses of the whole country, those at the four principal commercial centers being as follows, as compared with 1915: Per cent Location. Year. Number. Value. increase in 1916. S. .......................................1916 1,005,572 974, 224,582 ob&e.................................................. 1915 985,520 538,752,744 80 Oaka 1916 3,9905,666 3,017,580,220 7 Oska.................................................. 1915 3,214,261 1,699,438,308 Tok 1916 5,548,811 4,041,559,530 75 okyo..... .......................................... 1915 4,657,708 2,593,705,029 1916 788,174 846, 505, 450 57 Yokohama ............................................. 1915 626,082 537,909, 176 57 The average net returns to investors in securities were higher at the beginning of 1917 than at the beginning of 1916, the increase being due partly to the decline in quotations on the stock market toward the end of the year and to the increase in dividend rates. The Hypothec Bank of Japan is quoted as stating that on March 1, 1917, the average quotation of bank and company shares on that day stood at 157.75 yen (yen, approximately $0.50) as against the average paid- up capital at 54.87 yen. The average dividend rate on that (lay amounted to 15.26 per cent per annum, and investors could therefore obtain net returns of 5.92 per cent. This figure is an increase of 0.74 per cent over the corresponding date in 1916. Company shares are mainly responsible for this increase, the average return on these being 6.40 per cent on March 1, 1917, and 5.16 per cent on March 1, 1916. The average for bank shares was 4.59 and 4.97, respectively. Merchant Tonnage Entering Kobe-Congestion at Ports. The following table shows the number and tonnage of merchant vessels entering Kobe from foreign countries in 1916, compared to 1915: 1915 1916 Nationality. Number. Tonnage. Number. Tonnage. STEAMERS. American............................................ 39 207, 794 36 86,134 Japaneso............................................. 1,822 3,674,936 1,954 3,944,616 Chinese................................................ I 326 10 4,674 British............................................... 297 1,136,508 280 1,164,375 Prench............................................. 41 147,950 44 214,916 Dutch................................................ 18 61,867 21 69,371 Swedish.................... ........................ 13 35,463 10 30,367 NorweRlan.................... ..................... 2 6,576 12 31,157 Russian..................................... ....... 43 06,613 83 119,065 pj anish.............................................. .... .... .............. 2 4,063 Danish ........................... ..................... 5 15,332 12 38,551 Total............................................. 2,2&3 5,412,365 2,464 5,707,289 SAILING VESSELS. Am erican.............................................. 2 5,551 ............... Japanese............................................... 2 432 3 401 Other.................................................. 1 1,976 2 966 Total........................................... 5 7,939 5 1,367 SUPPLEMENT TO COMMERCE REPORTS. The total number of vessels in the foreign trade entering Osaka in 1916 was 450 of 685,437 tons, or about 12 per cent of 'the tonnage entered at Kobe. Of these vessels, 395 were Japanese, 39 Russian, and 16 of other countries. The above figures show a very small increase in the tonnage of vessels calling at Kobe in 1916 as compared with 1915, whereas the quantity of merchandise handled here increased 24 per cent by weight in the same period. The result has been so great a conges- tion of cargo and lack of freight space as to very seriously interfere with trade. Nearly all the large exporters state that they are re- fusing a large amount of business owing to inability to secure -pace on vessels. Conditions, however, have improved as the result of additional landing accommodation and new storage sheds. Accord- ing to one statement, published on February 20, 1917, there was on that date about 100,000 tons of outward-bound cargo awaiting ship- ment at Osaka and Kobe. The customs authorities calculate(1 at the end of the same montli that there were 161,183 tons of mer- chandise in Kobe Harbor, ashore and afloat, awaiting delivery. Accumulation of Freight at Railway Stations. It was estimated early in December that there were about 400,000 tons of goods accumulated at all of the railway stations of the Gov- ernment lines. The Railway Bureau announced that the Government railways, which include all the principal lines in the country, cn r- ried 28,200,000 tons of merchandise during the first 11 months of 1916, for which freights amounting to $22,400,000 were received. Compared with the corresponding period of 1915, these figures are increases of 3,600,000 tons and $4,250,000. It is stated that increased facilities in the way of cars, etc., were furnished in 1916 amounting to 3 per cent, but that the merchandise offered increased about 13 per cent. Freight and Charter Rates. During the greater part of 1916, and until February, 1917, freight rates from Kobe to United States Pacific coast ports were from $9 to $11 per ton of 40 cubic feet by unsubsidized ships and 20 to 25 per cent less than those rates by certain Japanese steamers receiving subsidies from the Government. The latter v.-sels comprise a third to a fourth of the total Japanese ton- nage in the North American trade. Early in March, 1917, however, there was a sudden advance in rates, started by the independent com- panies, which later culminated in more than doubling the prices rul- ing only a few weeks previous-that is, from $9 to $11 per stowage ton to $20 to $2. per ton at ship's option (40 cubic feet or per ton of 2,000 pounds as the ship may prefer). The ca iise. of this increase are the congestion of cargo heri. on account of which owners have not been able to move goods long awaiting shipment, which have there- fore been incurring heavy interest and warehouse charges; the higher rates heretofore ruling in other ports of the Orient than here; and the competition caused by the large quantities of Indian and other Asiatic merchandise for the east coast of the United States, which is now being sent eastward to the Pacific coast owing to the danger of navigation via Suez and between the Cape of Good Hope and New York. JAPAN-KOBE. 39 Charter rates to the United States were quoted in May, 1917, at 17.50 yen (about $8.75) per dead-weight ton per month on yearly charter, or $9 to $10 per dead-weight ton per single trip to the United States. Charterers provide fuel and water and pay insur- ance and port charges. Tea and Rice Production-Grain Crops. Although nearly half of the total quantity of tea produced in Japan is grown in this consular district, the tea trade has chiefly cen- tered at Shidzuoka and Yokohama and comparatively little of the leaf is now exported from either Kobe or Osaka. Figures for 1916 are not yet available, but the tea produced in this consular district in 1915 amounted to 30,584,169 pounds, valued at $2,684,715, as compared to 73,385,160 pounds, valued at $8,076,641, produced in the whole country. These figures include the three varie- ties of green tea (Gyokuro, Sencha, and Bancha), black tea and oolong tea, but not tea dust, of which Japan produced 1,926,000 pounds, valued at $86,402, in 1915. The total yield of rice for all of Japan is reported as having been 289.176,332 bushels compared to 277,385,966 bushels in 1915. As this district produced just 40 per cent of the whole crop in that year, its share of the 1916 crop must have been in the neighborhood of 115,- 000,000 bushels. Last year's crop was the largest on record, showing an increase of about 6.448.000 bushels over the previous bumper crop of 1914, and about 30,700,000 bushels as compared to a normal crop. Prices during the greater part of 1916 were depressed, but from June, when the average price was $1.30 per bushel, it rose rapidly to $1.85 before the close of the year, which was the highest recorded for some years past. The production of the three other chief food crops last year was about normal and, as shown by the following table, varied little from the 1915 production: 1915 1916 Production. Bushels. Value. Bushels. Value. WHEAT. Kobe district................................. 8,398,192 57,40.3,116 9,079,838 58,165,884 All Japan.................................... 27,389,506 23,968,740 30,052,408 26,145,352 BARLEY. Kobe district ................................. 11,165,004 5,013,445 10,453,995 4,5 8,461 All Japan...................................... 52,498,508 20,583,395 48,943,319 19,589, 100 RYE. Kobe district................................. 23, 7&3,383 15, 171, 225 22,685,624 14,050,500 All Japan ...................................... 41,872,967 25,895,824 40,560,389 24,985,617 Mining Activities Show Increase. The mining industries of this region have been active ever since the outbreak of war in Europe. The Mining Affairs Office of Osaka, which is the central market for mineral products in Japan, has made public the following information. Applications received by that office for prospecting rights in 1916 numbered 3,724, as compared with 1,444 for 1915. The output of SUPPLEMENT TO COMMERCE REPORTS. nietals during 1916 amounted to about $13,000,000, as compared with $7,500,000 in 1915. The principal products were copper, $11,000,000 (an increase, of 22 per cent over the previous year); silver, $800,000 (an increase of 9 per cent) ; gold $300,000 (an increase of 12 per cent). The number of men engaged in the business altogether was 28,000, or 8,000 more than in 1915. NAGASAKI. By Consul Edwin L. Miller. The N'aga:idki consular district embraces all of Kyushiu Island and the port of Shimonoseki on the main island of Japan, and has a population, according to the latest statistics, of 9,069,719. The largest cities are N;igasaki, Fukuoka, and Moji in the order named, none of which exceeds 200,000 in population. The district is, like most of Japan, mountainous and well watered. Rice, oranges, and grape- fruit are produced in considerable quantities. Kyushiu has large porcelain interests, the most noted being the Satsuma and Arita wares. There are large coal deposits, and the ports of the district are important coaling stations for shipping in the Far Ei-t. For some years there has been a large shipbuilding yard at Nag;i-'ki equipped to build or dock practically any of the ships of the -ize seen in the Orient. There is also a Government- owned steel plant at Wakamatsu, a town near Moji at the Strait of Shimono.-k!i. The island of Kyushiu has a number of good natural harbors. Na'g:i-.kli has a fine harbor, with no strong tidal currents, and is the most westerly port of Japan. It is the first Japanese port readied by steamers from Europe, and the port of departure for vessels leaving Japan for China or other points we-t and south. Foreign Trade of District. The total foreign trade of the Nagasaki district amounted to $39,- 577.059 (exports, $20,150,846; imports, $19,426,213) in 1915 and to $58.871,895 (exports, $:;i0,980,131; imports, $27,891,764) in 1916, an increase of $18,294,836. While much of the enhanced value of the trade is due to higher prices, there has also been an increase in quan- tities, especially of cotton goods, .cin iit, and paper. The export of coal has been restricted by high freight rate. and tonliage scarcity. The principal gains in exports are nearly all in manufactured goods. While there is a long-established porcelain industry in the dis- trict, the products of which are exported, this does not appear in the export stati:.tics, as the local makers work very largely on orders from merchants and general exporter-' in Osaka or Kobe who are in touch with outside markets. Imports consist of foodstuffs, particularly salt and sugar, and unfinished materials for further use in manufacturing, such as pig iron and shipbuilding materials. Raw cotton and fertilizers of vari- ous sorts are also important imports. Foreign Trade of the Port of Nagasaki. The total foreign trade of the port of Nagasaki for 1916 amounted to $11,9-2,873 (exports $4,952,854, imports $7,030,019), against $6,215,892 (exports $2,312,877, imports $3,903,015) in 1915. The gain in exports consists of foodstuffs, coal, and manufactured arti- JAPAN-NAGASAKI. cles; and in imports of raw cotton, fertilizers, and iron and steel for further use in manufacturing, nearly all of the latter being used for shipbuilding. The imports from the United States, $3,024,484, are not only the largest on record, but amount to more than the com- bined imports from any other two countries. In 1915 imports from the United States amounted only to $678,068. The three largest items of this trade were kerosene oil (2,828,505 gallons, worth $340,752, in 1915, against 2,606,900 gallons, worth $352,442, in 1916), iron bars (1,521,157 pounds, worth $28,429, in 1915, against 3,470,367 pounds, worth $105,397, in 1916), and iron plates (46,270 pounds, valued at $993, in 1915, compared with 3,083,438 pounds, worth $86,180, in 1916). Nagasaki's exports to China amounted to $934,629 in 1915, and to $1,231,389 in 1916. The principal items are cuttlefish and bWche de mer ($120,512 in 1915 and $114,832 in 1916), cotton yarns (1,229,923 pounds. worth $188,843, in 1915, and 673,596 pounds, worth $119,700, in 1916). and coal (76,120 tons, valued at $236,915, in 1915, and 141,771 tons, valued at $418,163, in 1916). Imports from China show a slight falling off-$937,681 in 1915, against $873,677 in 1916, and consist largely of fertilizers of one sort or another-bone (32,420,694 pounds, worth $315,266, in 1915, against 26,634,216 pounds, worth $282,794, in 1916), oil cakes (19,341,568 pounds, worth $163,103, in 1915, and 20,050,404 pounds, valued at $216,499, in 1916), and beans and peas (6,672,732 pounds, valued at $88,545, in 1915, and 2,756,424 pounds, worth $38,859, in 1916). Exports to Hongkong amounted to $1,001,329 in 1915, and to $983,584 in 1916. The principal items were cuttlefish (4,344,895 pounds, worth $262,520, in 1915, and 2,708,614 pounds, worth $254,059, in 1916) and cotton yarns (3,590,136 pounds, worth $552.124. in 1915, and 2.919,312 pounds, worth $527,981, in 1916). Imports from British India rose from $492,081 in 1915 to $792,676 in 1916. The principal item was raw cotton (4 203,012 pounds worth $456,467 in 1915 and 6,411,768 pounds worth $784,415 in 1916). Imports from Great Britain increased from $957,760 in 1915 to $1,602,342 in 1916, while exports to the British Isles which were negligible in 1915 amounted to $215,959 in 1916. The import items consisted of raw iron and steel, shipbuilding material, and submarine cable supplies, the value of the latter being $147,635 in 1915 and $645,388 in 1916. The gain was due largely to increased prices. Trade of Moji, Shimonoseki, and Wakamatsu. The total foreign trade of Moji in 1916 amounted to $28,970,805 (exports $13,584,029, imports $15,368,776) compared with $20,839,968 (exports $9,274,282, imports $11,565,686) in 1915. Over half of the imports-$8,505,366--are classified by the customs as raw materials, which includes cotton, iron and other ores, and fertilizers of all sorts. Iron ore and pig iron imported into Wakamatsu amounted to 565,432,692 and 90,542,240 pounds, respectively, of a total value of $1,478,810. Sugar was imported at Moji to the amount of 89,021,032 pounds, valued at $3,272,305 in 1916 while exports of this commodity refined, amounted in 1916 to 85,671,847 pounds, valued at $4,113,022. Exports of cotton goods of all sorts from Moji and Shimiionoseki reached the total of $1,389,003 in 1916 compared with $896,528 in SUPPL]-.MI-I'T TO CO 1M.I:;UE HLPOHTS. 1915. Coal from Wakamatsu w a-; exported to the amount of 799,279 tons valued at $2.419,755 in 1916. Cement shipments from Moji rose from 140,271,810 pounds, valued at .!19,187, in 1915 to 154,931,041 pound-, worth $873,037, in 1916. With the development of cement factories in various parts of the district this article will ,.-,irii, a more important feature of local foreign trade. The United i;i ales, next to British India, \\ais the large' -1. seller to Mloji in 1916, with a value of $3,149,390, agai-t $1,072,703 in 1915. Of the imports, "- .300,263 repl-i.--oents 13,9 10,,92 pounds of raw cotton. Other imports from the United States wi're, machinery and parts, $1._,.,--, in 1915, against $8413, ::'. in 1916, and hen'-ce. oil (848,780 gallons, $:;;,i0 '0; in 1915, and 829,763 gallons, $102,083 in 191;). Heavy lubricating oils from the United State were imported to the extent of 1.6525,93 gallons in 1915 and 1.2',2.08 gallons in 1910. Despite the nmaller quantity, the 1916 imports of this commodity weVe9 worth $47,474 again-t 8.7,818 in 1915. The %iin in 1916 imports from the United States appears to a great extent to be the v'.-~iit of inr'!'c;'ed purchases of American cotton. Exports to the United S.i ., fromn Moji amounted only to $52,020 in 1915 and to $2-,013 in 1916 and th.-,, were none from Shimonoseki or Wakamatsu. Importance of Trade with China. The trade of this section with China is important. The iron ore and pig iron imported at Wakamatsu is obtained there,, as \ell as fertilizers, bone, and even coal of the anthralite variety. Imports from China into Moji were $1,216,306 in 1910 against i.10)9,090 in 1915. Imlp)r, into Shimonoseki from China were $346,344 in 1915 and $895,877 in 1916. The principal items were oil cakes, .K-i0,903 in 1915 and .$537,149 in 1916, and wild silk, $158,180 in 1915 and $162,041 in 1916. The imports at Wakamatsu fi,;oi China were $2.023,158 in 1915 and $1,970,015 in 1916. Aside from coal ($309.902 in 1915, s:).9,001 in 19160). they consisted almost exclusively of iron ore and pig iron. Exports to China from Moji were $4,114,712 in 1915 and .' ,158,308 in 1916; from Shimonoseki, $921,946 and $1.5.14.919: and from Wakamatsu, $1,594,229 and $2,050,761, respectively. They con- sisted principally of cotton goods of all sorts, valued at 1,938,716 in 1915 and $2,398,806 in 1916; coal, $1,603,904 in 1915 and $1,338,734 in 1916; glass, $251,487 in 1915 and $327,872 in 1916; and refined sugar, $1,874,579 in 1915 and $:1,281,245 in 1916. Moji's Trade with Japanese Leased Territory, Great Britain, and Chosen. Moji's trade with the Japan-e-e Lea e1 Territory of Kwantung was $2,589,2-47 (exports $1,470,814, imports $1,118,433) in 1915 and $7,374,614 (exports '01,158,308, imports $1,216,306) in 1916. It is really part of the trade with China, as Dairen is only a depot for North China co(mnver v. The important exports were cotton goods. fish, paper, rice, and sugar, and imports beans, oil cakes, and salt. European commerce was principally with Great Britain, Moji's exports to that country being $375,040 and $1,414,275 and imports ";62.467 and $084,465 in 1915 and 1916, respectively. The main imports were machinery and iron and steel manufactures, and ex- ports, beans, rice. and vegetable wax. JAPAN-NAG ASAKI. The commerce of this section with Chosen (Korea) amounted to $6,417,999 (exports $1,859,000, imports $4,558,999) in 1915 and $7,416,681 (exports $2,929,992, imports $4,486,697) in 1916. The principal items of export are cement, cotton goods, refined sugar, and iron manufactures, and the imports are mostly raw materials, such as beans, rice, anthracite coal, and iron ore. Large gains were made in the development of the district's foreign trade in manufactured goods. Cement to the value of $140,758 was exported in 1916 from Moji to British India and $379,251 worth to Dutch East Indies; cotton goods to the value of $100.563 was sold to British India, as well as $93,157 worth of glass. A few years ago Japanese competition in these lines was practically unknown. It is stated that by the end of the current year the steel plant at Wakamatsu will have a capacity of 300,000 tons. Hakata is the only other port of the district having any consider- able direct trade with the United States. It received 4.765,59-2 gal- lons of'drude oil, valued at $356,347 in 1915 and 2,739,390 gallons, valued At $356,347 in 1916. The principal cause of the higher price per gallon is the high freight rates. Declared Exports to United States and Possessions. The following table shows the value and quantity of the principal articles exported to the United States and its possessions from the Nagasaki consular district during 1915 and 1916: Articles. TO UNITED STATES. Purs, animal.........................number.. Graphite ................................. t us.. Ri e, un leaned.......................pounds.. Wax, vegetab e......................... d .... Zine pnwder.............................du.... All other articles............................... Total.................................... TO HAWAH. Diving apparatus...................packages.. Medicine, patent........................ caes.. Provisiuns..........................packages.. Rice: Cleaned...........................pounds.. Un:ieaned ...........................do .... All other articles.............................. I Quantity. ............. 176 116,813 47, 01 .............. .............. 3. .............. .............. .............. .............. Value. .............. $3, 429 10,9 .S 22,3S3 4,590 .............. 41,390 I............. I .............. 462 ............. .............. .............. M95 Total.............................................. 1,057 .............. TO PHILIPPINE ISLANDS. Acid, muriatic, nitric, and sulpharic.. .pounds.. Bleaching powder.......................dou.... Cement..................................do.... Coal.....................................t,.ns.. Coke ....................................do.... Glass, window.......................... cases.. Minjet jeuy............................pounds.. Potatoes................................. do.... Rice, dried, boLed.......................do.... Toys ....................................do.... All other articles.............................. Total. .................................... Total exports........................... 332,780 7,091 .............. .............. 25,968,210 117,776 314,121 1,275.883 54 673 .............. ...... ...... ... 463 23 5,001,100 57,161 .............. .............. 4,502 567 .............. 4,011 .............. 1,463,217 .............. 1,505,664 Quantity. 272 384 220,000 177,323 .............. .............. 6 5 39 6,915 137, 60u .............. Value. 32,026 18, -09 6,5531 20,795 .............. 3,'959 51,740 208 527 138 232 4,033 94 5,232 11,476 1,513 75,723 1,347,140 4,060 3,603 764 43,673 1,466 242 2,804 1,492,464 1,549,436 294,480 30,000 15, 753. 6t30 326, OnS 370 520 25, 68 3,133,51k 65,741 1,308 .............. Quantity. -------! 1 ---. LIST OF PUBLISHED SUPPLEMENTS. The annilial report, from consular officers are i-.sued as supple- mn-,lnt to (I.1 \rE:i;C, REPORTS as -qnonl as pus-ible after their receipt. Each supplement is so nuibere,1 that at the end of the year they nimay le assembled by countries and bound. A definite number is assigned to each country, and the reports from the various consular districts in that country are distinguished by the addition of a letter in bhe order in which they are issued. Following is a list of the suppllements i--i:'d during 1917: A. .r ... r l r ...... I' r A .l m ...... .. . B " ano I aulo., naltiuS, tulahn, Pleiati- buco, Rio Grande do Sul............ For all of Brazil.................... Brilish Vast Africa................. Bril ish (' uiana.......................... Brit ish Honduras....................... British India: Madras and Mysore ................... Bombay and Madras ............. Burma ..... ...... ................... British South Africa: Iort Eliiabeth, Durban, Johannme~!urg Rhodesia..... ....... ............ 1 or all of lii1 ish South Africa......... British West Africa: Nigeria, Gold* *, :. Sierra Leone..... ............... British West Indies: Bermuda and Jamaica................ Trinidad, Tobago, and Bahamas...... Canada: British Columbia and Maritimne Prov- inces ................................ Prairie Provinces..................... Q( ..l...- Province...................... I o i ,I of Canada............. ........ China: :-h l] .1. iloiuik.l.n, und Canton..... 1in L I-1t, I ....... ................... . HI:].' ,'l i ........ .. .... ......... .iii .i. 'hi 'n.-i.ii hlim L lri:, .watow Al l I, l,.,,, I-":..i. h,', N anking..... VA -i In-. Dairen, and Mukden......... 'lT 1' i ............................. S. II kuI .............................. For all of China ....................... Colombia: Cartagena............................. For all of Colombia.................... Costa It ica: Port Limon............................ For all of Costa Rica.................. Cuba.................................... Denmark................................ Dominican Republic.................... Dutch East Indies: Sumatra............ Dutch West Indies...................... Ecuador. ............................... F I.I .... ............................. "i iir' ] lavre, Calais, Grenoble, La Rochelle, I i..... Lyon, Rouen, Dieppe, St. i i and N ice............ ... M ar.eille.. ...... .. ................ For all of France...................... IFrenc h Indo-China...................... French We, t Afri'a: St negal, Dahoncey, Freno i (uinca, and Ivory Coadt...... Ficihii ''- Indies: Marniliq'ue.. I ' .; , *li 40a 40b1 C5a, 5b 44a 21a 50a 501) 50c 66a 66b 66b 67a 22a 22b 23b 23c 23d 23a 52a 52b 52c 52d 52o 52f ".-1: 52h 42a 42b 24a 24a 25a 4a 26a 53a 27a 43a Gia 5b 5c 5a 28a ('n ..in a r ,4 v, ll,, lu d i P'i,'l. i 'r ** i I' S I' tr and. 1 n 0i l i .....].l....... . I 1 l r.... . I I1! .' 1 l .. .. .. . .. I i'l1, t il S I ill..... ...' ............ ..... ..... I, .\I' ll .-1 ....................... ... I .' 1 il f Honduras ................... Italy: Catania, Florence, Milan, I.i'lriho, Rome, Venice....................... For all of Italy....................... Japan: Chosen and Taiwan.................. Kobe and Nagasaki.................. For all of Japan ................... Malta .................................. Morocco............ ................... Netherlands: A In terdam .......................... For all of Netherlands................ New Zealand: U li rini. Dunedin, and Christ church ............................. For all of New Zealand............... N icaragua.............................. Norway: Bergen and .- i 1 i......... Panama: Co!on ............ ................... For all of Panama.................... Paraguay.............................. Peru ................................... Philippine Islands.................. Portugal: A zores.................... ............ For all of Portugal..................... Pussia: Petrograd and Odessa.......... St. Pierre............................... Siam .................................... Spain: Malaga and Almeria................... Madrid and Seville.................... Canary Islands........................ Barcelona............................. For all of Spain....................... Straits Settlements...................... Sweden: Goteborg.............................. For all of Sweden..................... Switzerland: St. Gall............................... Basel, Berne, and Geneva............. For all of Switzerland................. Tunis................................... l liii,'dl l, llil:',l ni: I:irnii, h, 1n in r ,,li...r.I, Huddersfield, Leeds, Nottingham, Leicester, Shef- field, and Stoke-on-Trent............ Bristol, Hull, Liverpool, Newcastle, and Plymouth...................... irdiltf and Swansea.................. IDundee, Duiinfermline, Edinburgh, S a ..... and T .. ........... . i'-!i.i I ondonderry, and Cork....... For all of United Kingdom............ Uruguay................................ Venezuela.............................. WA SITIIN;T''' : (OVErI:Mi:NT PRINTING OFFICE : 1918 Nn. of N i, 1a 7 a .il l I .111 ,l b 31 b 8a 8a 55b 550 55a,55c 20a 75a 9a Ob 61a 61a 10a 35b 35a 45a 46a lla llb 13a 37a 53, 15a 15e 15d 15e 15b 56a 16a 16a 17a 17b 17a 79a 19a 19b 19e 19o 19C 19a 47a, 47b 48a ii"' 1 IJI~L~i*I- UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA 3 1262 08485 0 751111111111111111111ll 3 1262 08485 0675 U. EP T -. flEOftTrnmY |