Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1910-02-27


 ing factor in international commerce the value thereof entering the world s markets in 1909 having exceeded oO million dollars against million Tn 1902. In this trade vehicles of Amer ican manufacture supply each year a larger proportion of the worlds re- uuirements A special compilation just made by the Bureau of Satisfies of the Department of Commerce and Labor shows that the value of auto- mobiles and parts of exported in 190S from France, the United States, the United Kingdom, Italy, and Germany, the five Heading countries engaged in their manufacture and sale, aggregate more than 45 million dollars, against 9 million in 1902, a growth of 400 per cent. Automobile exports from the four foreign countries named, taken as whole, increased from eight mill lion to 39 million dollars, a gain of SS5 per cent, while those from the United States increased from one million to five and half million dollars, gain of 45o per cent.
 The exportation of automobiles from the United States has developed chiefly in the last ten years, the first record thereof having been made in 1902, when the total was $1,069,7S2. By 1905 the annual export had in creased to nearly three million dol lars by 1907 to six million, and in 1909 was nearly nine million dollars. The foregoing figures include the shipments to the non-continguous ter ritories and relate both to automo- piles and parts thereof sent out of the country
 Meantime importations of foreign built automobiles have decreased. In 1906, the earliest calendar year for which details are available, the total imports of automobiles and parts thereof aggregated five million dol- lars, but since that time have fallen to four million in 1907; three mill lion in 1908, and four million in 1909. In the four-year period 19O6- 1907, inclusive, imports of automo- piles aggregated 16 million, and dom- estic exports thereof, 9 million dol lars, an excess of exports over im- ports of nine million dollars, of which excess five million dollars developed in the calendar 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 $3,071.002, France is credited with $1,67O,900; Itaily, esq., 454; Germany. $321 ,O33 and the Uni ted Kingdom $233,9S3.
 France leads the world as an eX- porter of automobiles. with the Uni ted States second in rank Statistics compiled from the official publica- tions of the countries named show that the exports of vehicles of this class in the latest year for which de- tails are at hand were: From France in 190S 4.569. .000; the United States in 1909, $S,667 ,397; the United King, dom, in 19o9 s7.610,267; Italy, i'll 1908. S5,533, ,o0o, and Germany. i'll 1908, s3.oS1 o0O
 The wide distribution of the auto mobiles exported from these manufac- turing nations offers indirect evidence of improved methods of travel and transport in various parts of the world. The United States, while eX- porting most of it's automobiles to Canada. the United Kingdom, and con- tinental Europe, sends considerable quantities to it's several non-contigu- ouS territories, and to the West ln- dies, South America, Australia, and various countries of Asia. Africa and Oceania; while France, Great Britain Italy and Germany, in addition to their exports to the United States and Europe, send automobiles to many of their colonies, to numerous tropical communities, and to South America.
 Of the 2-3 million dollars worth of automobiles shipped from the Uni ted States in 1909, 3-4 million went to foreign countries and sSS0,7S0 to its non-contiguous territories. Of the exports to foreign countries, near ly two and half million dollars worth went to British North America two million to the United Kingdom SS46.136 to France, $494.29S to Mex ico, s337,4414 to the West Indies and Bermuda. S303,454 to British Austra- lasia. $240,453 to South America. SPA 06S toI taly, S1S1. .0S7 to Germany and S209731 to various countries of Asia and Oceania. The shipments to the noncontiguous territories included $614,4424 to Hawaii, s249,713 to Porte Rico, and S16.64S to Alaska.
 Frances expectations of automo- piles, valued at s24,569,ooo in 1908