Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-05-17
s572, o0O, 900 IN VALUE
Was Our 1906 Trade With France and
Germany.

Washington, May 16-Trade Of the
United States with Germany and
France aggregated last year about
$572 000. 900, and in the year which ends
with next month seems likely to reach
nearly or quite s700,000,o00. About
three -fifths of this large total trade
occurred with Germany and about two
fifths with France. In the trade with
Germany, exports to that country are
much greater than the imports there
from, but in the case of France the ex-
ports arc slightly less than the imports.
In the nine months of the present fiscal
year for which the Bureau Of Statistics
is able to supply detailed statements,
the exports to Germany were $201 ,00O-
zoo, and the imports therefrom $123,-
600 900 in value, while in the same
period the exports to Franco were SOL
600. geo and the imports thcrefrom $99,-
900 00n, these figures being in round
terms. France is one Of the few inn
portant commercial countries Of the
world to which our exports are less
than the imports drawn therefrom. In
the last ten fiscal years the imports
from France have amounted to S1S3,-
5Oo.nC1 and the exports thereto SIs3.-
Guo. COG; in the same period imports from
Germany amounted to $1.07. 090.GU0 ana
the exports thereto S1,S2e, 100000.
The details Of the trade with Ger
many and France in the latest fiscal
wear have been prepared in tabular
form by the Bureau Of Statistics. or
the $l35, 900, GOO worth Of imports from
Germany in the fiscal year 1906, Sill
500 900 worth was manufactures ready
for consumption. $32, 100000 manufac-
lures fer further use in manufacturing,
$23. 900, 900 crude materials for use in
manufacturing $5,O00OO0 foodstuffs
partly or wholly manufactured. and
$500 coo worth fOOdStutfS in crude con-
ditiCn. OF the exports to Germany,
amounting to 1922, 900, 900 in 1906 crude
materials FIR use in manufacturing
amounted to $112.000oo0; foodstuffs
partly or wholly manufactured, $i4,-
0C0.O0H; manufactures for further use In
manufacturing. s24O00,oO0; manufac-
lures ready for consumption, S22,Ooc,-
COO, and foodstufrs in a crude condition.
$40 C0G 0OO In the trade with France
the imports thercfrom We're SOS ,000,0 900
in value, Of which $5S000 worth was
manufactures ready for consumption,
S17. 900 GOO crude materials for use in
manufacturing. SIG $780, 900 manufactures
500. 900 foodstuffs partly or wholly
manufactured, and s., 1873 900 foodstuffs
in a crude condition. OF the exports to
France. amounting to $965OO,OOO $53,-
600. 600 worth was crude materials for
use in manufacturing. $1S,0OO,O00 manu-
features for further use in manufac-
turing. $12.00O,OOO manufactures ready
for consumption. $7,5OO0Oo crude food
or wholly manufactured.
The principal articles imported from
Germany are chemicals. drugs and
dyes. $19O00O0O, Of which nearly S.
100000 worth was potash and $4,5OO.-
600 coal tar colors and dyes; cotton
manufactures, $16.5O0,000. of which knit
goods amounted to S6,333,0OO. and
laccs, embroideries, etc, $6,000,000;
iron and steel manufactures, $6.O0O,OOO;
silk manufactures, $6.000.000; hides and
skins. s5,OO0,OOO; leather and its manu-
features, $5,000000; wool manufac-
lures, nearly $5,OOO0OO, and paper, $4,-
750,9 900, and agricultural implements,
IS, 900 900: wool manufactures, s3,500.-
600; silk laCcS, cdGinBS. etc, S3,oOO.-
900; leather and its manufactures. 49,
100000; feathers, $3,000,C00; auto
mobiles, nearly s3,OO0.OOO. and art
works, $2,75O,00O. The exports to
Franco, amounting to $96,500.00O. in
cludcd raw cotton, s45,OOO.OOO; copper
ingots. bars, etc, $12,75O,OOO; refined
mineral oil, 100000; iron and steel
manufactures, s3,333,OOO leaf tobacco.
SO, $50, 900; crude mineral oil, nearly 49,
100000; wood, manufactured, ST.
about S2.75O, 600
In the trade with France the imports
Of $108.000,000 in value included cotton
laccs. edgings and embroideries, s10.-
500. 900: hides and skins, $1,000, 1000:
champagne, $5,50O.0OO silk dress goods.
s5,O00,000 diamonds, cut but not set.
333. 600. or the exports TO Germany
raw cotton amounted to SOL 900 900:
lard. $19.500000 copper ingots, ST.
500, 900; corn, $12.0OO.OOO; mineral oils,
$500, 900; iron and steel manufactures,
100000; oil cake and meal, $4750,-
600; naval stores, $4.500.0O0; wood I'M
manufactured $4.OO9,O0O, and leaf
tobacco, $3,5O0,0O0