-----------------+------------------+--------------- | United States | Year | Hawaii and Porto | All Countries | Rico | -----------------+------------------+--------------- 1904 | $278,106 | $4,919,840 1905 | 764,990 | 6,346,962 1906 | 278,796 | 6,642,329 1907 | 1,056,328 | 8,320,079 1908 | 604,742 | 7,909,395 1909 | 508,229 | 6,862,135 1910 | 2,043,000 | 8,444,453 1911 | 4,110,837 | 10,305,017 1912 | 4,143,067 | 9,246,595 1913 | 6,827,082 | 11,483,638 +------------------+--------------- Total | $20,615,177 | $80,480,443 | +--------------- Annual average | | $8,048,044 -----------------+------------------+--------------- From a proportion of slightly over five per cent of the total trade in manufactures of cotton in 1904, importations of the American product have increased until they supply fifty-nine per cent of the present local demand! The following table is of especial interest. It shows in the first column the nature and amount of the total exports from the United States and in the second the nature and amount of United States exports to the Philippine Islands. ----------------------------------------------+-----------+--------------- | To All | To Philippine | Countries | Islands ----------------------------------------------+-----------+--------------- Foodstuffs in crude condition, and food | | animals | 7.48 | 2.25 Foodstuffs partly or wholly manufactured | 13.19 | 14.39 Crude materials for use in manufacturing | 30.10 | .42 Manufactures for further use in manufacturing | 16.84 | 7.19 Manufactures ready for consumption | 32.04 | 75.73 Miscellaneous | .35 | .02 +-----------+--------------- Total | 100.00 | 100.00 ----------------------------------------------+-----------+--------------- The most profitable class of exports is manufactures ready for consumption. It forms no less than 75.73 per cent of the United States exports to the Philippines. The least profitable exports are crude materials for use in manufacturing, which make up but forty-two hundredths of one per cent of the total exports to the Philippines.