Arizona republican., 1906-05-01
TRADE WITH
 ARGENTINA
It is Worth $4O,OOO, ,OOO
 Annually to Us
Unlike the Commerce of Most COun- tries the Balance is Nearly all on Our Side.

! Washington. April 30.-Commerce of the United States with Argentina az
 gregates over forty million dollars per annum, and is growing very rapidly. In the fiscal year 1905-the year end | ing June 30-the total was thirty-nine million dollars; in the calendar year
 1905 the total was fOrty-five and hali
 million dollars, and in the eight months of the fiscal year 19O6, for which the department of commerce and labor, l through its bureau of statistics, has
 presented figures, the total of thirty
 four and a third millions seems to jus
 tify the prediction that Tor the full
 fiscal year which ends June 30 will
 reach fifty million dollars.
 i Notwithstanding the rapid growth in
 the trade of the United States with Argentina, the percentage of it's i'm ports supplied from this country is comparatively small being but about Is per cent of its total imports, whiie we supply 36 per cent of the imports of Venezuela, 34 per cent of those Of ! Colombia, 29 per cent of those of Brit ish Guiana, 25 per cent of those of Ecuador, IS per cent of those of Peru and 15 per cent of those or the Dutch West Indies. The South American countries whose percentages of inn ports from the United States are less than that of Argentina are: Brazil which takes but II per cent of her i'm ports from us; Chile, S15 per cent; Uru- quay, Sla per cent: Bolivia, 2-3 per cent and Paraguay, 35s per cent The total imports of all South America are, in round terms, 450 million dollars, of which the United States supplies about 13 per cent, and the total exports of all South America are $50 million dollars. of which the United States takes about 20 per cent.
 Naturally the United States takes 2 small percentage of the exports of Ar
 gentina, since the products of that counry for eXportation are largely of the same character as those Of the
 United States, namely wheat. corn.
 and meats, our chief imporLations from
 Argentina being wool, 7Ia million dol
 lars, and hides and skins. millions.
 The United States takes less than f per
 cent of the exports of Argentina and
 supplies 13 per cent Of her imports.
 The bulk of Argentina's imports are
 drawn from European countries, her
 own figures of imports for 1905 showing
 the total importation from the United Kingdom to be 36 million dollars; from Germany. 2S millions; from the United
 States, d little less than 2S millions; from France, over 20 millions ana Italy. 1912 millions. The principal i'm ports of Argentina are textiles, wear ing apparel, manufactures of iron and steel, manufactures of wood. pottery. glass, chemicals mineral oil. and to- bacco the United States supplies q fair share, but in other articles, especially textiles, the proportion drawn from the United States is very small.
 Tal fr,r- agricultural implements amounted in 1905 to five million dol lars, against a little more than one million dollars in 1895; manufactures .of ron and steel, nearly six million dol lars, against but about 2 half million dollars in 1895; mineral oils nearly 21a | million dollars, against less than one ! million dollars in 1895; and wood and !. thereof about 31k mil 1 1os' against less than one million dol | lars in 1895.
 Taking up more in detail the prin- | elpal articles exported to Argentina. l mowers and reapers showed in 1905 q | otal of $1,472,156, against SS17,445 in | -S95; and all other agricultural imple- | nents, $3,560.597, against S1S7, ,1O6 in 1895. | hallway cars in 1905 amounted to $673.- 1 A, against $56,750 in 1895; patent pro- | 'rietary medicines. $198, ,465 in 1905. | against $93,9G9 in 1895; cotton cloths. 1 3S5,S6S in 1905, against SISS,247 in 1895. md all other cotton goods, $35S, ,189 in SO5, against S1S,2O9 in 1895. Binders | wine is an important item in the ex- l ports to Argentina, the value sent hereto from the United States in 1905 1 laving been S1,5SO, 231, against S272. .9O6 lS95; and cordage in 19O5, s1O5, ,386. i gainst $S6.159 in 1895. Exports of steel alls to Argentina from the United 'tates in 1905 amounted to S1.193. .237, { gainst nothing in 1905 and $50. .222 in SSG wire, chiefly for fencing, in 1905 | mounted to $529,6S5, against $21, ,552 in SS5; builders hardware. saws and II ools, in 1905. $58S, ,SO9, against $141. .s54 1895, and sewing machines S5O7. .914. II galnst $S3534 in 1895; refined mineral II II, Tor illuminating purposes. in 1905. II 2' l42;SS6, against $6O7 296 in 1895: lubri- ating oil, $2l9,SSS in 1905. against S2O5.- gWarar