The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-05-06
SELLS MUCH BUT
BUYSvERY LITTLE ] /:
Brazil Sends Products to United
States and Gets Own Sup
iis4 plies III Europe.
REVIEW OF YEARS BUSINESS
TRADE Between Two Countries
aggregates About ITO Mil
lion Dollars.

s5ssss WASHINGTON, D. c., May 6.--Trade
az the United states with Brazil nggre-
+ gates 10 million dollars, n larger sum
4 than with any other country OF South
4 An1erlcn, and Is only exceeded by our
Il trade with the United Kingdom, Ger
Il many. France, Canada, and Cuba. Brazil
stands third iii rank among the coun-
4 t-ies from which our imports arc drawn;
n on the export side Of onr statement
however, Brazil stands twentieth among
( tho countries to which American r,er-
VI chnndise IS sent. The United States uses
In manufacturing industries practically
one half Of the crude india rubber pro-
duced In the world, and her people con
sumo more than one-hnlf of the coffee
grown. AS Brazil is tho worlds largest
producer OF india rubber and coffee, her
sales to the United States are large, but
as her principal ports lie upon the beaten
/ track OF vessels engaged IN trade be-
tween Europe and South America, and
as her merchants and consumers are OF
European origin and closely identified
with European business interests and
customs, she draws most of her Imports
from Europe
Value Of Imports.
The total value Of Brazil's imports In
1904 was 1870 million dollars, while the
exports OF the United States to Brazil
I. in that year We're less than II million
dollars her total exports In 1904 We're w
million dollars and our imports were 20
millions. so that we take about one
half of her exports while we supply but
q small share of her imports. our I'M
ports from Brazil are far larger than
those from any other South American
country, having been in the fiscal year
1905, according to the reports issued bS
the Department of Commerce and Labor
+ through its Bureau of Statistics, S99,sA3,-
5os4 against s15,354,oo1 from Argentina
and s11,o71,6ls from Chile. Indeed met
chandse from Brazil formed In l9o5 p1ac-s
3stically two thirds of the imports from
all South America. On the other hand,
the exports to Brazil were In 1905 but
$40. 9s5, O96, against s23,5640 66 TO Argen-
tina and formed less than one-fifth OF
S our total exports to South America.
. In 1905 imports into the United States
from Brazil exceeded exports thereto by
Il nearly ninety million dollars This large
v excess of imports over exports, a much
larger excess of imports than occurs
with any other country, has always char
#acterized the trade between the United
States and Brazil. AS n result OF the
4 demand for coffee and india rubber, the
excess of imports over exports IN our
trade with Brazil has seldom fallen be-
slow fifty million dollars in the last tWen-
4 ty years and was in 1905 over eighty-
eight millions. The total value of Inn
ports into the United States from Brazil
from SCI to 1905 was s2,l6StiO95.2 SO and
the total exports to Brazil in that period
sS727o7,GS4, making the excess of I'M
ports over exports during that time ST.
47S5.SS7, SAG.
OF the practically 100 million dollars
worth of imports from Brazil IN 1905
slxty-four millions was coffee, twenty
eight and n half millions india rubber,
two and ee-quarter millions hides and
skins, one and a quarter millions sugar
and one and a quarter millions cocoa.
In coffee importations there has been
steady growth in quantity though the
values have huctunted by reason of
changes in prices. Tho total quantity
of coffee imported from Brazil in 1903
was eight hundred and twenty million
pounds. against five hundred and ninety
six millions In 1900 four hundred and
thirty-nvc millions in 1895 and three hun
dred and ten millions in 1890.
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