THE TRADE OF GREAT BRITAIN WITH THE UNITED STATES.

Samoa Times and South Sea Gazette, Volume 4, Issue 169, 23 October 1880, Page 2

THE TRADE OF GREAT BRITAIN WITH THE UNITED STATES.

j Ureal- Britain is still ttin principal , custo::ii-r of and vendor to the States. 1 We might even say localise of the tariff- ] because no country in the world is so able to compete against tb.it tariff as our own. Hence their imports from os were Inst year nearly double those from Cuba, nines than double those from France, and three times us imich as those from Germany. The trade of the Slat as with Brazil—n trade which they arc most anxious to develop—was on the import side only $30,373,000 last year, as oooiparcd with $11)8.340,000, the value of the imports from this country. These totals, it must be borne in mind, refer to a period antecedent to the ureal buying mania which overtook th« United States last autumn. For the current fiscal year the figures will bo much more remarkable, as is proved by tbo fact that for the eight months ended February 29 last tho value of tbo inerelmndiso alono imported showed an excess over the corresponding period of about 3110,000,000. Including specie, tho increase was 5182,200,000, as against an increase of but 836,347,000 in tho value uf export*. Owing to this extraordinary movement the excess of the total exports over imports was, for tho eight months, only . 877,140,000, as compared with 8203,002,000 in tho corresponding period. Were any account kept of the movement of stocks and shares inwards and outwards, it might be found that there was really an excess in tho value of tho total imports of the Status this year. Of specie alone $73,462,000 was imported between July 1, 1679, and February 2, 1860. There are other points of much interest in this collection of facts about the United States, but svo cannot now pursue the subject further. It would, however, bo ivcji ware intending emigrants to take note of the warnings given in it regarding certain parts of the .States, notably Texas, before committing their fori ones to the Union. Fur those with ft little capital and tho necessary skill, there are many of the northern and western parts of the Union, from Colorado upwards,much better adapted for settlement than most of Texas, A careful account of the o)>«n lands of tho North American continent, their qualities and prices, tho facilities for reaching thorn and for bringing produce from them, would lie extremely valnablo just now,and should not bedifficult to compile, since some States publish elaborate statements on their own ! account. Kansas, for example, issues u | biennial report, which is a perfect mine of information upon all points of interest to the t'ctllcr.