44 THE AMERICAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE JOURNAL July, 1936 FREIGHT REVENUE CAR LOADING

RAIL COMMODITY MOVEMENTS By LEON M. LAZAGA

COMMODITIES

NUMBER OF FREIGHT CARS

1936 1935

FREIOHT I Increase or TONNAGE Decrease

1936 1935 ~Tonnage Trt~Jlic M"""&" Mllnilt~ Rt~ilrot~J Cmrpt~ny ----- ---570 743 6,208 9,484 (173) (3,276)

The volume of commodities received in Manila during the month of June, 1936, via the Manila Railr9ad Company are as follows:

Rice ..................... Palsy ....................... Sugar ..................... Sugar Cane .................. Copra ................... Coconut ... , ................ Molasses ....................

82 215 -

405 148 19

1

101 1,112 322 6,278

- -

397 2,924 99 1,974 14 547

-11

970 ( 19) 142 10,096 (107) (3,818) - - -

2,701 8 223 1,211 49 763

407 5 140 - 1 11

Rice, cavans ................ . 89,377 129,138 77,313 29,072

159

Hemp ............... Tobacco .................... Livestock ....................

11 1 3 14

119 5 10 114 13 53 (11) (40)

Sugar, piculs ................ . Mineral Products ............. 232 176 2,583 2,027 56 556 Lumber and Timber .......... 123 143 3,041 3,759 (20) (718) Copra, piculs ................ . Other Forest Products ....... 15 18 103 150 (3)) (47) Manufactures ................ 165 117 2,352 2,112 48 240 Desiccated Coconuts, cases ... . All others including L.C.L ..... 2,637 2,524 16,226 15,060 113 1,166

~ ----743) Tobacco, bales ............... . TOTAL . 4,626 43,491 48,035 (4,544)

L. . .............. - ..... d.--'" Lll.Qlber, board feet. . . . . . . . . . . 291,898 Timber, Kilos.......... . .. . . . . 1,146,000 SUMMARY Week ending June 6 ............ 11,100 1,152 10,965 12,038 (52) (1,073) ~ Week ending June 13 ............ 1,231 1,111 11,539 10,654 120 885 Week ending June 20 ............ 1,130 1,257 10,257 14,129 (127) (3,872). The freight revPnue car loading statistics for

four weeks ending June 30, 1936, as compared with the same period of 1935 are given below:

Week ending June 27 ............ _1,_1_~6~ 1_0~- ~~~ 11,21~ -~- _(48~ ToTAL .......... 4,626 4,669 43,491 48,035 (43) (4,544)

N oTE:-Figures in parenthesis indicates decrease.

(Continued from page 39) wh~e their annual volume of exports is expanding, thetr percentage to .the toal export volume is rather standing still or even declining. As meas-ured by the value of actual expor.tcin 190~ wholly manufactured goods were ac~ntable for 27.9% of the total exports of ~e y.eli.r, while cotton piece-goods were 2.4% (agai.$of the total exports, but not of those of wholly Irlanufactured goods alone). Silk tissues' share was 10.2%; rayon fabrics were non-existent. The share of wholly .manufactured goods other than cotton and silk fabrics was 15.3%. In 1913, wholly manufactured goods were accountable for 29.2% of the total exports Cotton piece-goods rose to 5.3%, or more than doubled. but silk tissues fell off to 6.3% and "others" rose sharply to 17.6%. In 1935,

wholly manufactured goods were checked up as more than half of all exports,-at 59%,---while cotton piece-goods were 19.9%; a con~iderable betterment from 1913, but a retrocession as com-pared with 1933, when cotton piece-goods register-ed 20.9%. Silk fabrics declined to 3.1 %. but rayon textiles were now on the list at 5.1 %, while "others" were accountable for 30.9%. This 1933 percentage of the ~'others", of 30.9, as compared with 15.3% in 1903, indicates that al-most one-third of Japan's exports consist of wholly manufactured goods other than cotton, silk, and rayon piece-goods. Undoubtedly these comprise articles of miscellaneous description, but they are of considerable significance. While wholly manufactured goods are to be the motive force of export expansion, with the exception of

such old-time articles as cotton and silk textiles, the so-called wholly manufactured goods are rather nondescript; new articles unimportant individually, but, collectively, representing a tremendous stride in export trade.

Such have been, in substance, the real condi-tions of the foreign trade of Japan during the past several decades, and should remain so in future. An export balance of trade of the di-mensions of Y 4,000, million, therefore, cannot be dismissed as a mere day dream, but has every probability of coming true. If such a trade balance fails to develop, the time is not far off when the living standards of the Japanese people will be elevated considerably. All in all, the for-eign trade outlook for Japan, both short- and long-range, seems entirely bright.

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