Los Angeles herald., 1910-12-26
Reports Show Both Imports and
Exports Are Larger Than
in 1909
MONTHLY AVERAGES HIGHER
Total Value of International Com
merCe Will Reach Thirty
Billions of Dollars
lSnecial 70 The Heralll

| WASHINGTON, Dec. 2J.--Ihc Wprlu 6
| international trade promises to make a
new high record in the calendar year
| 1910. Figures received by the bureau
/ Of statistics, department Of commerce
and labor, show that in nearly every
country of the world both imports and
/ exports are larger than in 1903, and the
reports thus far received indicate that
! the grand total of the worlds S inter-
national commerce in 1910 viii reach
a higher figure than ever before
These figures Of the bureau are drawn
| from the official publications of the
principal commercial nations of the
world, and include something more
than twenty-five leading countries. The
| number of countries for which the bu-
reau receives official publications is
much greater than this, but for many
of the less important countries no fig
| ures for any part of the calendar year
| 1910 have yet been received. Taking al
| of those for which figures are at hand
! for any part of the present calendar
year, the bureau finds that in practi-
| callv every case the imports in 1910
show a higher monthly average than
those of 1909, while the exports are,
with very few exceptions, also higher
in 1910 than in 1909.
The countries for which the bureau
of statistics has reports covering a part
Of the calendar year 1910 are twenty
seven, and include among the more inn
portant, Argentina, Australia, Austria
Hungary, Belgium, Brazil, Canada,
Chile, Egypt, France, Germany, India
CBritish), italy Japan, Mexico, Russia,
Spain, Switzerland, the United King
dom and the United States. The por-
tions of the calendar year 1910
covered by the reports of the
various countries reaching this
bureau are not, of course, iden-
tical, since some of the countries issue
their monthly statements much more
promptly than others. AS a rule, how
ever, the reports in question cover from
six to ten months of the calendar year,
and in all cases the bureau states not
only the total for the accumulated
months, but also the monthly average
of both imports and exports of each
country during the portion of the year
for which the totals are presented. The
figures of imports show in every case
larger monthly averages for the respec-
tive countries named than in the cor
responding period of 1909, while on the
export side the monthly averages are
also larger except in case of Argentina
and Bulgaria.
FIGURES ARE HIGH
Taking the more important countries,
a comparison of the monthly import
and export figures during such portion
of the calendar year 1910 as are now
available with the corresponding PERI
ods of 1909 indicates distinctly the Up
ward trend of international trade. on
the import side the average monthly
importations are: For the United
Kingdom, IN 1910, 265 1-3 million dol
lars. against 2441a million in the similar
period of 1909; for Germany, 1852 mil
lion dollars against 172 3-4 million In
the corresponding period of 1909; the
United States 1291a million in 1910.
against 1872 million for the same time
of 1909; France, 1O3 IA million, against
81 1-3 million for 1909; Belgium 6215
million dollars in 1910, against 561a mil
lion in 1909: Italy 40 million dollars in
1910, against 4S1A million in the similar
period of 1909; Austria-Hungary, 45A
million in 1910, against 43& million in
the same months of 1909; Russia in
Europe, 401a million dollars in 1910,
against 321a million in the same period
of 1909; Canada, 361a million dollars in
1910, against 2S& million in the corre-
spending months of 1909. and Japan
10 Is million dollars in 1910, against II
million in 1909.
On the export side the figures of the
United Kingdom show an average of
173 l-3 million per mOntn IN 15lO,
against 1917 million in the correspond
ing period of 1909; Germany, 1902 mill
lion dollars per month in 1910, against
1872 million in 1909; the United States,
143 million dollars per month in the 1910
period, against 1856 million in the corre-
spending period of 1909; India, So mill
lion dollars per month in the 1910 perl
od, against 45 IA million in the similar
period of 1909: while Argentina shows
but 81 IA million dollars per month for
the first half of 1910, compared with
401s million per month for the corre-
spending period of 1909.
Taking. the entire number of coun-
tries for which figures covering any
portion of the calendar year 1910 are
available, the monthly imports and eX-
ports for the entire group shows an in
crease of about per cent in both i'm
ports and exports, as compared with
the corresponding periods of last year.
thus suggesting that the worlds inter-
national commerce in 1910 will prob
ably show between IA and Is billion
dollars worth of exports, and some
thing more than Is billion dollars
worth of imports and that the total
value of the worlds international trade
will reach 80 billion, assuming that the
average price level on which the final
valuation for 1910 in the principal
European countries will be based, does
not differ materially from that of 1909.