New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-04-10
AMERICAN PORK ABROAD.
IMMENSE IMPORTANCE OF GERMANS Elk
PECTED ACTION.
,rs PROBABLE EFFECT ON OTHER NATIONS
WHERE AMERICAN HOGS AND HOG pAo-
nucTs ARE PROHIBITED - HOW
THE EXPORTS TO GERMANY
HAVE DwINDLED.


washington, April 0--The importance OF the pro
| nosed action OF Germany TO remove the embargo
AGAINST hogs and hog products exported iro INC oncu
states can hardly be overesimated not only on ac-
count OF the value OF the German market 70 the pro
ducers OF and meat products In TINS country bu
also on account Of the probable influence OF Germsnys
action upon other countries WHICH nave prohDiteu uie
| mnortation of such products from this country.
| Italy took the lead in prohibiting the importation
~ American pork on February 90 1870. Germany
followed with Imperial decree dated June % 1850
which was made restrictive In 1888 In February
1884, the importation OF American pork, bacon, etc.
was prohibited by France, and Austra-Fungary fol
lowed suit less than month afterward by decree
which excluded American lard as well as pork products
| In the same year Turkey took similar action
The importance Of the expected action OF Germany
will be best shown by facts relating TO the exports
of hog products from the United states TO that country
before and since the original edct OF prohibition was
issued
In 1876 the amount and value of hog products ex
! ported TO Germany from the United States were as
follows Bacon and hams, 16.140,o45 pounds. valued
at 81 ,959757; lard. AZ ,5o4,522 pounds, valued at
Ss o42 432 pork, 1886 pounds, valued at S03,3SO
| total Ga, ss6453 pounds, valued at $s20o,o0O' III
1881 five years later, and before the edlct against
hams and bacon the exports were as follows Bacon
and hams, Al $40 40 pounds valued at S31oo,oO
lard. ssl27 500 pounds, valued at $601S,032, pork
A55 G4G pounds "a falling OFF from the exports OF the
prevous year. June OF which year the original ediff
was issued which in terms exempted bacon ana lais
| Of 3sO3.771 pounds, valued at SiOs2lo; U0'al
131 1873 800 pounds valued at $l1,3S261i, showing
net increase in five years Of G6240'eoo pounds anu
$685. ,0SS. ,..,
| On Fehuarv o. 1881 the German Bundesrath passed
resolution prohibiting the entry Of hog meat OF every
descrption from the United States into that country
For n few weeks longer the admission OF American Hog
nroducts was allowed by Hamburg and Bremell, anu
then these markets also were closed against the Ou
STATES In 1883 the exports Oh hog prou-
ucts to Germany from the ohi'eu o'a oo9
wore ne follows: Bacon and hams l4,'Oo'ooo
nounds valued al III 400 2s3 lard, Al S72ol5 pounds,
vapcd at "a s67 142; pork, 1,1466G2 pounds Vaiueu
a. s1os oo5. total 5772s4O9 pounds valued at 3D.
| AA4 40 being q decline in two years, on account vi
more severe measures, Of 734O4,9Oo pounus' a"u ~,
AIS oO7 It is worthy Of note that despite t"e i'0v
that no edict was issued against lara inc eAporS Va
that product sympathzlng with the decline III lIe ca
ports of other hog products, fell OF from ool-''o'"
pounds, valued at $o,olo'o3-, 10 4i'o'-' f
valued at 1867 ,142
| In 1900 the amount and value of the exports
Of hog products from the United states 10 "ci'"''
| were as follows: Bacon and hams, 2,224'oio Po"n
valued at S1G1 1855; lard, 1852 1874 pounds, Vueu
| NJ s7a15As4: pork, I,13S,746 pounds, Valueu a'
| s73sl7; total 49, 1890 pounds Vaiueu "' 90
OH O5o In nine years. therefore, the yeary exports
~ bacon and hams from the United states to Germany
| have fallen off 30,325130 pounds, ana @-'oo,''o,
the annual exports are 10000 POUNDS anu %ofiVl
| less while the yearly exports OF laru'- aehns' "i
no prohbItory cdct has been issued have increased "
| ouantlty by 284O0,041 and decreased Ill V@uo W
| so0344s. How much Of the decline III the 'aue
., American lard exports to Germany is to be ascrDeu
| 10 tbo hostile attitude OF that country toward all
| other hog products, as well as 1--we hosS' IL III
noss,bs to tell but that it has had an important III
| 1uence there can be 70 doubt That any american
hog nroducts I'm the form OF bac0ni mans anu P'rh
| found their way to Germany last year Is explained
bv the fact that there those commodities are aio"eu
| % be entered at the ports Of Bremen and Hamburg
for re-export to other foreign countries, OF ior uSc 40
provisions for going vessels lying In those ports
| The exports OF I've animals from the United states
| TO Germany in the year ended June 80 lo'o' III;
| cluded no hogs or sheep According 10 inc IcpOl
NJ the Chief of the Bureau Of Statistics, the exports
Of other live animals to Germany IN that year were
az follows Live cattle 1907 head, valued at S33oo4o
| AN average Of about SS4 40 per head; hiV-seVeh
horses valued at s5775o, average OF more than
81 ol3 each aid the total of all other animals III
Guiding fowls, was only S2,16o.
In 1876 the amount and value OF exports OF nos
products from the United States to France were as
follows: Bacon and hams, 34s4,772 pounds, valued
al s412114; lard, 10,o59,4e7 pounds, valued at
346 5O4 pork, 221 100 pounds, valued at So'S0l
total 13,765,45S pounds, valued at Sl,1e2'ooo' III
1881 the exports were follows: Bacon ana hans'
q III
COS SOL pounds valued al $5,567 o3o; pork, 1soo9Oo
pounds valued at S131 741 total 131 OH 407 pounds
valued at S10554 ,703. In five years the quantity
increased more than nnefold and the value more than
skiold Then the prohibition against Dacoh
hams and pork, and in 1883 the exports were as
} follows: Bacon and hams, 2,sol pounds, valued at
$40 246; lard, 81 794,211 pounds, valued at $3
70? 7o6; pork, 100, 400 pounds, valued at Sl0,s54
total 49, 532 pounds, valued at SO, o2e. In 1890
the exports MS follows: Bacon and hams, llee
pS SSnsaI At S lard (Which is subject to Official
inspection in Franco, 44,31s,l4o pounds, valued at
From these figures 1t appears that the exports Of
lard have not yet recovered from the effects Of the
and pork but the official inspection may be partly re
spOnsIblc. The exports OF hams, pork and bacon to
virtually driven out and kept out of that valuable
market during the last nine years 50 far as the food
The q the Chief Of the S Of S tba SHIs
the ended June 49, SS Sm 'h The ' TneS
states in that year were 500 head of cattle valued at
average value Of tie horses was so65o each
III Is pernen TO add that the exclusion OF American
meat = products by France and Germany since 1881
has doubtless been the chief cause OF the unayorabe
Of The Ia o SRet Sc as Of @
mercial relations with those countries. IN the five
from 1877 to se both nSn SS ea e pp n
by the exports from The United an sa SSe 70 o
SSon! ~ iS ye s In the next period Of Ave years
1ss2 to 1ss6-the exports from the United sta'fs
10 France eXceedef IN value Dy the lnlpOrls Y,
tHe amount OF Sl3O00s, 343, a yearly average OF
800 O10 500. In the next four years, from 1887 70
1900 the exports exceeded in value by the I'M.
ports by the sum Of So5,210,006, an average OF
$23, s02 726 per annum. go.
So much for the commercial discrimination Of France
against the United States. There Is high authority
for the statement that France will not be long behind
Germany in removing the trade restrictions against
| the United States which have borne so hard upon
American farmers and stock.raisers ,.o, .no ~
In the period Of i've years-loI7 TO lss1-the ex-
ports from the United States TO Germany exceeded the
Imports from that country by the sum OF $50 205 334
an average OF l7 s4l o67 yea In the next period
OF five years ended June 30, 1886, the imports from
Germany exceeded the exports from the United states
by the sum OF $50762o5. yearly average OF
ri la52 52 In the period Of four years ended June
no 1900 the Imports exceeded the exports by the
sum OF ,3s2, an average Of sls,0s050o per
, annum In other words the trade relations between
the countries had been completely reversed In less
than years, and that 10 the disadvantage OF the
| United States. II will not be amiss 10 add that