The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1910-03-13
AUTOMOBILES 4
eRDUIhG FACTOR
01AxxD1no6 SHOW WoNBERFUI.
INCREASE.
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UNITED STATES RANKS SECOND
- An Exporter Over Eight Millioa
DslaaxS' Worth Of Automobiles
Shipped to Foreign Countries In
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Automobiles are rapidly increas-
the value thereof entering the world :
markets in 1909 having exceeded 80
million dollars. against million in
feo2. In this trade vehicles of Ameri-
can manufacture supply each year a
larger proportion of the worlds re-
1uirements. A special compilation
5nst made by the Bureau of Statistics
ct the Department of Commerce AMI
Labor shows that the value Of automo-
biies and parts of exported in 1865
from France, the United States, the
United Kingdom, Italy and Germany.
Ne Ave leading countries engaged in
their manufacture and sale, aggregated
more than As million dollars, against
semillien in 1902. a growth OF 400 per
cent. =. Automobile exports from the
fear foreign countries named, taken as
. whole, increased from million to
30 million dollars, a gain of $50 per
eent-
The expectation of automobiles from
the United States has developed chief
~ in the last ten years, the first re-
cord thereof having been made in
1902, when the total was $l,069,7S
BY 1905 the annual export had increas-
ed to nearly million dollars; by 1907
Aillion dollars. The foregoing fig
nres include the shipments to the non
contiguous territories and relate both
- automobiles and parts thereof sent
Dut of the country.
Meantime imporations of foreign
saiit automobiles have decreased. In
1905, the earliest calendar year for
which details are available, the total
knposts OF automobiles and parts
thereof aggregated 5 million dollars,
bat since that time have fallen to
nillion in 1907, 3 million in 1908, and
{ million i'm 1909. In the four.year
period 19o6-1 1908, inclusive, imports of
automobiles aggregated 16 million, and
domestic exports thereof, % million
collars, an excess of exports over i'm
ports Of 9 million dollars, of which ex-
cess 5 million dollars developed in the
,aIendar year just ended.
France, Italy, Germany, and the
United Kingdom are the chief sources
OF the automobiles imported into the
United States. Of the importations
Of 1909, valued at 1901, oo2, France
j. credited with $3.50. 500; Italy,
$685., 454; Germany. 1921 ,033, and the
yynftcd Kingdom, s233,3s3.
France leads the world ~ An export
sr OF automobiles, with the Unitea
states second in rank. Statistics
ssmpiled from the official publications
sf the countries named show that til.
exports of vehicles of this class in the
iAse~t wear for which details are al
hAsd were: from France, in 1908,
1860 900; the United States, in
in 1909, s7,61o,a67 Italy, in 1908, So.
$4,000; and Germany, in 1908, So.
tsl,Deo.
The wide distribution of the automo-
Miss exported from these mannfactur-
ing nations offer indirect evidence of
improved methods of travel and trans
part in various parts of the n.rid.
fAe United States, while exporting
most Of its automob iles to Canada, the
UAited Kingdom, and continental Eu-
rope, sends considerable quantities to
~ several non contiguous territories,
sad 60 the West Indies, South Ameri-
q. Australia. and various countries of
Asia. Africa. and Oceania; while
many, in addition to their exports to
ne United States and Europe, send
automobiles to many of their colonies
to numerous tropical communities. ami
10 South America.
Of the s % million dollars worth
" automobiles shipped from the Unit
ia States in 1909, "a million went to
eoreisn countries and ssso,7s0 to its
Ion-contiguous territories. OF the ex
to~ts to foreign countries. nearly Oh
Aillion dollars worth went to British
HSrtk America, 2 million to the United
Kingdom. $346.136 to France, $4e4,
- TO Mexico. &s37.414 to- TIE West
tadies snd Bermuda, $303.45 to Brit
Il Australia, 424o, 453 to South Amer
=, 42s4,o6s to italy, $ls1, os7 to Ger
hesy, and @eoe.731 to various coun-
kies of Asia and Oceania. The ship
kents to, the nunlcontiguous terrific
rs Included $6I4,4c4 to Hawaii, $o4s.
f13 to Porto Rico, and $16,64s to Alas
H.
frances expectations Of automobiles
9sl.ssa u 80. 56eoeoS in 1905. wef.
distributed IS follows: to the Unifed
Ein&dom, 1I.7s4. 900; Belgium 81
1000; the United States 42,la4.-
- asrmany, s2,ols, 600; and Argen-