The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1901-06-20
AN EXPEDITION OF TRADE
What Austrin and Hungary Are Do
ing an Commercial Lines

ing in Commercial Lines
Concerning the Acknowledgements com
mercial expedition. the State Department
has received the following from Carl
I Bailey Hurst, the United States Consul
at Vienna:
Austria IS making every effort 10 in
crease her export trade. and to this end
many radical measures have been con-
sidered and several put into execution
An export academy has been establish
ed: commissions and delegations have
been sent abroad to study commercial
conditions in ether countries; in the Aus
tro-Hungarian consular service, many
honorary consuIs have been replaced by
trained and saIaried ones, and the plan
Of an exposition Of Austrian manufactures
is now being successfully carried out at
the capital OF Denmark. One of the most
important means considered was a great
floating exhibition. which. going from
port to port would introduce Austro-
Hungarian exportable goods in suitable
markets all over the world. The Gov
eTument voted $4,000 for the undertake
ing, which, however, was given up, ow-
ing to a change of ministries. Following
this tentative movement, a private expe-
dition was fitted out on a small scale and
achieved satisfactory results. Now,
again under unofficial auspices. an Aus
tro-HUngarian commercial expedition to
eastern Asia is about TO be taken around
the world. This expedition has been very
carefully organized, and is under the
leadership OF an austrian merchant who
has resided many years in the Orient
The expedition receives no government
tai or other subsidy and is undertaken
on a business basis, calculated to render
the enterprise a financial success. This is
the second venture Of the kind made IN
der the same management, and, as the
first vas profitable, this expedition, i'm
proved IN equipment and travelling far
Their afeTd, bids fair 10 bring in substan-
tial material returns for the participants,
and to open for Austria Hungary mar
kets where this country is now unrepre-
scented, as we'll as to introduce goods into
lands where Austro-Hungarian agencies
may already exist, but where other couu-
tries have a monopoly Italy has within
few years tried this scheme to her ad-
vantage, and the italian Trading Con
pany organized to exploit Italian prod
nets. is now a vigorous and paying body
1t started with some one hundred and
twenty-five manufacturing members. and
it now has enrolled over five hundred
Germany sent out to the Far East IN 1888
q commercial expedition, which was alb
sent over a year, with gratifying results.
The favorable impression of these under
takings on exporters in Italy and in Ger
many has influenced a certain class Of
business men II Austria Hungary, and
the fitting out, progress, and ends attain
ed by the expeditions are road marks TO
countries which seek 10 find wider mar
keis for their manufactures
''Austro- Hun gariaa exporters who de-
sire 10 participate IN the expedition now
III question may send samples occupying
a space Of 55.3 cubic feet. or having a
weight of one ton, according to the na-
ture of the merchandise, at a cost OF
sos, and for each further like quantity at
500, Outside Of a commission for orders,
reaching the exhibiting manufacturer di-
rectIy or indirectly, there Will be nothing
further TO pay Samples of value viii be
sold after use, and the net proceeds ac-
counted for to the exporter. The expedi-
ton VIII start early in June, stopping On
its way in New York and in San Fran
cisco, and make exhibits at the following
places IN Japan. at Yokohama. Kobe, /
ana NagaSaki. in China, at Tientsin,
Shanghai, Canton, and HongkOag; in |
Siam IL Bangkok; IL the Straits Settle /
mcBtS. at Singapore and Penang; in /
SUmatra. 1T AIedan-DcIi, PaIembaug, Pa
Gang, and kOta-Radjas in Burma. at /
RanScoa, IN india, at Calcutta, MADRAS, /
ana Colombo; and, further on, at Alden, /
SUez. and Port Said
The expedition VIII aim to carry sam
pies Of AUStTO-HUngdTidu manufactures, /
10 exhibit them IN suitable places and to 7
take orders 10 collect samples and price I
lists of salable articles abroad and sub |
nit them 10 manufacturers in Austria /
Hungary interested In such articles 70 I
extend the relations with trars-oceanic 1
firms begun during the first Austro-Iun- |
garian expedition in lS99-I9e0 and posi- |
bly, TO start its own commercial establish !
ments.
Among the direct advantages that this /
commercial expedition offers are the as /
SuTance that the samples Of AuStrO-
hungarian manufactures viii be energet-
ically exploited in the proper markets, and /
the certainty that the orders taken on
the basis OF the exhibited SAMPLES viii /
reach the manufacturer concerned. and /
that cash payment Will be made upon !
OF bill OF iading by some
bank in Europe, to be designated At the 1
time. Detailed reports viii be made on
the condition of foreign markets. their
demands and tastes, together with sug-
gestioGs as TO .AuStrC-tiungarian goods
likely TO sell there. their qualities, de-
signs. makeup. and packing, as well as
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