The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-08
MARCH EXPORTS
 PASS BILLION RATE
Increase Is Shown Over Last Year in Principal
 Articles

New York. May 7.-tSpeciaL )-Ex- portations in March were at the rate of more than one billion dollars year.
 The actual figures of the month are:
 Manufactures ready for consumption.
 s57. ,2O6: manufactures for further
 use in manufacturing. $27.345,645; to-
 tai. sS4,S44,S51. this figure being at the
 rate of more than. one billion dollars for a 12-month period. The share which manufactures formed of the total ex- : ports of domestic merchandise during the month was: Manufactures ready for consumption, 36.24 per cent; manufac- : lures ready for further use in manu- featuring, 17.23 per cent. the two groups of manufactures thus forming 531 F per
 cent of the total exports of the month. : One year ago the March exports of : manufactures ready for consumption were 47A million dollars in value and l those of manufactures for further use l in manufacturing 22ia million, the r two groups forming fraction less than 50 per cent of the total exports of do- nestle merchandise. Thus the exports 5 of manufactures as whole in March, l1911, exceeded by more than IS mill } lion dollars those of March, 1910. For the nine months ending with March, l 1911 the exports of manufactures : amounted to 430s4 million dollars, ex- : ceeding by 691a million the figures for 5 the corresponding period of last year, n while manufactures for further use in . manufacturing exported during the nine
 months of the present fiscal year az 1T gregated 225 Is million dollars and l. exceeded by more than 25 million the r. figures for the corresponding months Is of the preceding year Should the ex- l. ports of the remaining three months in of the fiscal year be at approximately
 the same rate as those of March the to- on tai exports of manufactures, includ- h. ing those, ready for consumption and CT those for further use in manufacture ne ing would exceed 900 million dollars in l. the present fiscal year.
 el Considering the March exports by II, III principal articles. those showing the ,s largest growth when compared with re March exports a year earlier are: Iron B. and steel and manufactures thereof,
 3 1-S million dollars increase; copper . pigs. bars and ingots, an increase of n nearly two million dollars; agricultur
 al implements, over one million dollars
 cotton manufactures, Il million dol l. lars refined mineral oils, nearly one
 million dollars; vegetable oils (chief- ly of cotton seed, three-quarters of a
 million dollars; cars and carriages, ill, | cluding automobiles, l l. million dol lars; chemicals, drugs and medicines, N a half million dollars; and photographic
 goods, an increase of nearly a half
 million dollars. Exceptions to the gen ie eral rule of greatly increased exports ,- during March include boards, deals and st blanks, in which the increase was but st about $100,000 over the 3ls million dol : II lars worth exported in March, 1910; D. and leather and manufactures thereof. l. which decreased from $5,1303O9 in IS March, 1910, to s4.995.027 in March of Al the present year
 D. Many less important articles also St show increased exports in March when m compared with the corresponding month is d year earlier. Among these are alum 10 mum manufactures, painting and stat la uary, brass manufactures. brooms and t- brushes. celluloid, cement. clocks and J. watches, dental goods, earthen, stone
 and chinaware, furs, glass and glass
 ware manufactures of India rubber
 scientific instruments, jewelry, lamps
 and chandeliers. paper and manufac- N lures thereof, perfumeries, silk man. ! ufactures and starch. In most of these, , increases also occurred in the nine '- months ending with March when com e pared with the exports during the cor l. responding period of 1910.
 l.. study of the distribution of the 4 1iexports of manufactures shows that in
 some instances the growth was confined to few countries only, while in other r, cases it extended to practically every n section of the commercial world. Of the If exports of agricultural implements, for example, aggregating five million in
 March, nearly E million went to Rus d sia in Europe, three-quarters of a mil Ie lion to Canada, over half million to
 France, and about one-third million to
 Argentina, while Oceana and Africa are s also markets for a considerable share ir The exports of automobiles valued at ,h l 2-3 million dollars during March went III chiefly to Canada three quarters of a s million dollars and the United Kingdom. to one-third million, no other single coun in tsy showing as much as $100,e0 worth
 during the month Copper pigs, ingots
 and bars, exported from the United
 States are marketed almost exclusively = in Europe, the seven million dollars h' worth exported in March having gone of to Netherlands and Germany each at about two million dollars wortf;s tn. m United Kingdom, one million; France . three-quarters of a million; Italy, near ly a half million, and other Europe
 
 h. l thousand dollars worth going to al lg other countries. chiefly Canada. Cotto1 e. cloths, on the other hand, make bu
 little headway in European markets
 but go chiefly to China, the Philip - pines and other Oriental countries
 South America, and the West Indie
 and Bermuda. Iron and steel ma nufac
 lures are widely distributed, certall
 grades being sent to the United King
 dom, Germany. France and other in
 dustrial communities and numerou
 other manufactures to practically ev
 cry section of the world. The Unite
 Kingdom buys over half the sole an
 upper leather exported from tn, Unite
 States. while fhe exported boots an
 shoes go mostly to Cuba, Canada. Mex
 ico, and but About 25 per cent of tn
 total to the Emitted Kingdow and othe
 European cAuntres. American illum
 linatine oIl-is1consumed in every part c )S the world. Gkeat Britain. Germany tn
 Chinese Empire. and India being esps
 cially larsA markets. bought larg nd amounts~gO &So to oracticai1y all th r, snRerssnt sss&as!ss ss0H0ns