Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-07-17
COUNTRIES WE TRADE WITH.
Our Volume of Exports Is Vast, but Ii
Should BE Extended.

SGouiu lie Extended.
From the New York Sun.
The sun, 1t Is said. is always shining on
English domirions. and II never sets on =
country with which Great Britain has no
commercial relations. AS much cannot be
said for the United States. though the vol
une of American export trade is vast and
gradually extending. The American consul
at Montevideo, in report on trade con-
d!tions in Uruguay. furnishes a list of arti-
cles for which he thinks that country
would afford a market. In the various
countries Of South America the terms Of
credit are long, owing to deficient steam
ship facilities, six months being the usual
time limit. The banks are ali foreign, but
no American exchange is to be had direct,
and ali payments IN settlement of American
business so through English banks Last
year American imports from Uruguay
amounted to 81, 623,OOU, while We sent only
s96o, 200 worth of merchandise in return.
American export trade with foreign coun-
tries partly for such reasons rs the consul
in Montevideo ailudes to, and partly for
other and different reasons, Is very I'M
evenly distributed.
Too Much Against Us.
Fop instance, the total value of American
exports to Switzerland last year was only
$500. against imports assregetlng $4,000
900. To Turkey we sent st5. oo0 wor n. against
s.. 2DO.O0O imports. To the extensive East
Indian possessions of the French republic
we exported s155OOO worth, but imported
nothing. To Tripoi exported nothing.
but from there imported ss4,cn0 worth.
With the South American republic Of b.
livia the total trade both ways was only
$1,000. We imported anothing from Rou-
mania-excspt inmigTan ts, treasury
officials say-and sent scarcely anything 70
the Danish possessions. Iceland and Green
land, from which we imported SiJD,yJO.
To the French West indies we export Ell
$3.50. against si.S,U~}1 of imports. The
country with which our exports and I'M
ports almost exactly balance is the African
republic of Liberia, the margin OF difference
being only $500. The country with which
the least mercantile business was done is
Corea, 1.-The hermit nation" as it is called
the imports being ST3. ana the exports. not
rext to nothing, but nothing itself. In 1872
there were no exports and only s,as az i'm
ports. About one-balf Of American EXPORTS,
estimated in value, 50 70 Great Britain
and the countries from which we import
come in this order: England. Germ ny
Cuba Brazil. France and Canada. Eng
lands commerce is pretty evenly distributed
throughout the @cril, while the foreign
commerce of the United States, mostly in
alien ships fuctuates variouSiy.
Eject of Rcciprocity.
The reciprocity treaties of the Harrison
administration doomed, for time at least
tne exports liOli muse -NNt'thi ava 1'Hti
American countries with which the g-J-
graphical position OF the United States is
favorable to closer trade relations IN q
comparison made between 1850, the first
year of the first Cleveland administration,
ard 1891, the third year Of the Harrison al
ministration, and also the first year fol-
lowing the adoption of the Mckinley tariff,
American exports to Central and South
American countries increased from So. COO
600 to SI5Glo,UDD There remain, however,
some countries with which American trade
Is practically undevelopsd Gefuuct,
though the number of such countries dinnin
ishes each year.