Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 August 1898 — TRADE WITH CHINA INCREASING, [ARTICLE]

TRADE WITH CHINA INCREASING,

Cheapness of American Goods Makes! Them Popular. The success of the United States in the invasion of the markets of China is illustrated by figures just prepared by the bureau of statistics showing that our exports to that market of late have increased much more rapidly than those of Other Countries, and that the heavy falling off in imports of certajn lines of goods into China in the last year has not been so seriously felt by the United States as by other nations with which we come in competition. The steady gain which the United States is making in its effort to obtain a share of the market which China affords is shown by the following comparison of our imports into "China and Hong Kong, from 1890 to 1897, inclusive, with those of Great Britain during «**e same period: United United States. Kingdom. 1800 .$7,385,302 £9,137.104 1891 13,460,705 8,087,021 1802.. . 10.557.546 7.581.906 law 8.117,059 0.446.943 1894 ..10.071.273 6,262,810 1895 7,860,880 7,106,645 1896 11,613,134 8.530,300 1897 17,984,472 7,117,716