Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1911-12-30
FOREIGN COMMERCE OF THE
UNITED STATES.

| A. picture of the foreign commerce.
/ of the United States during the year
j just closing is presented by the bureau
| OF statistics, department of commerce
and labor, in the figures for the month
l of November and the IL months ending
with November. They show the i'm
ports and exports by great groups,
made up by combining into separate
/ classes the various articles of a sim
4 liar character, such as feedstuffs.
| manufactures, materials for use in
manufacturing etc, etc. TneSe IL
months figures, accompanied as they
are by the figures for the single month
of November, enable close estimate
| of the business for the full year, since
1 1t may be assumed that the December
| figures will in most cases approximate
those for November and that by the
addition of the November figures to
those for the IL months a reasonably
accurate estimate of the business for
the full year. which ends with the cur
rent week, may be obtained.
Imports for the IL months ending
with November, 1911, were valued at
1892 1-2 million dollars. against 1,42e
million in the corresponding months
of 1910. OF this total of 1892 L. mil
lion dollars worth of imports, 324 IL
were manufactures ready for use,
against 344 IL million in the same
months OF last year, a fall of 20 mil
lion dollars. This decrease occurred
chiefly in manufactures of iron and
steel. manufactures of wood. and man
ufactures of silk. Manufactures for
further use in manufacturing imported
show practically no change when COM
pared with the corresponding months
OF last year Crude materials for use
in manufacturing show a decided fall
r..
1a11 459 million dollars. against 493
the decrease of "a million occurring
chiefly in india rubber, hides and skins,
and wool. F'oodstuffs partly or wholly
manufactured show a decline of 10
million dollars. the IL months figures
being 166 million, against Isl million
last year. The decline occurred chiefly
in sugar, of which the quantity i'm
ported is materially less than last
year. Crude foodstuffs imported show
a marked increase, the IL months fig
ures Of 1911 being 16S IL million dol
lars. against 1874 million in the same
months of last year. This is largely
due to an advance in the price of COT
fee, of which the stated value of the
II months imports was 81 2-3 miIf>--
dollars in 1911, against so million in
1910, though the increase in quantity
was very slight, from ST. million
pounds in IL months of 1910 to ss7
million in like period of 1911. the
advance in value being due, therefore,
chiefly to higher prices.
On the export side manufactures
ready for consumption show for IL
months a total of 5S4 million dollars.
against 4s4 million I'm like period of
last year an increase of 80 million
dollars, while for November the figures
are 81 2-3 million. against 45 Ia mil
lion dollars in November of lastIyear.
for further use in manu-
facturing exported Increased from z5e
million dollars in IL months of 1910
to 293 million in the same months Of
the current year, a growth of 81 mill
lion dollars, while for the single month
Of November they increased from
"a ga to a little over &c million dol
lars. This indicates that the total
value of manufactures sent to foreign |
during the full year will be
about $50 million dollars, and if to this
Is added the value of those sent to
Porto Rico and Hawaii, the total value
IF manufactures sent out of continent
II United States will for the first time
approximate and probably pass the |
billion dollar line. 4