The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1912-04-19
AEROPLANES AND
MOTION PICTURES
Aeroplanes, Automobiles And Motion
Picture Films in Foreign Trade
Of The United States.

Of aeroplanes, thousands Of automo
biles. and millions Of feet Of motion
picture film appear among the articles
forming the foreign trade Of the Unit
ed States for the current fiscal year
The number OF aeroplanes imported
and exported during the fiscal year
which ends 90 days hence Will aggre.
gate a half-hundred valued at approx.
imately a quarter OF million dollars.
The number OF automobiles imported
and exported viii aggregate approx
mately 20 thousand, valued at about
% million dollars The motion pic
ture film imported and exuorted viii
amount TO - million feet in length, or
sufficient to reach more than half way
round the world
The large proportion Of this trade,
as to aeroplanes, automobiles, and mo-
ton picture films. occurs in exports.
The figures for the months ending
with February show the number Of
aeroplanes imported as 13, valued at
S4S,633; the number exported 26,
valued at S99, ,796. of which 70. valued
at S71,195, were of domestic manufac-
mre. Automobiles imported in the s
months ending with February, 1912,
aggregate III. value at S1.572,376, this
figure being exclusive of automobile
parts, S212,192. The automobiles ex-
ported aggregate 1891. valued at sl2,-
064, 1888, to which should be added au-
tomobile tires, valued at s1,641,373,
and other automobile parts, s2,426,-
264 OF motion picture film the i'm
ports in the months aggregated s.
97S, ,2S4 feet, valued at s516, 407, while
the exports aggregated 1852, ,7S1 feet,
valued at s3,927 ,097
The growth in exports of aeroplanes,
automobiles, and motion picture films
only began with the present fiscal
year. and comparisons by years are
not. therefore, possible. OF automo-
biles. however, the record extends
back to the fiscal year 1902. During
that period the exports have grown
from $94S,52S in 1902 to S17594, 1866, in
1911 inclusive Of automobile tires. For
the fiscal year now approaching its
close the total exports of automobiles
and parts, will approximate, if not ex-
ceed. 25 million dollars in value. IN
the meantime imports of automobiles
have grown at less rapid pace, from
$3.50 600 in the fiscal year 1902 TO 81
250.75 in 1911, and an indicated total
of approximately s2.500,0OO in the
fiscal year 1912 The import figure for
1912 is. in fact, much less than that
OF the fiscal year 1907, when the total
was nearly million dollars, thus in
dicating a marked decline in recent
years in importations, though the
growth in expectations during the
same period has been very large.
The countries supplying the imports
of automobiles into the United States
are chiefly France, the United King
dom. Italy, and Germany. From France
the months imports aggregated 263,
valued at $647 .292; from the United
Kingdom, l51, valued at $337,854;
from Germany, 107, valued at sl57,-
461; and from Italy, SO. valued at
S209, ,036 The automobiles exported
from the country are sent TO various
countries in Europe, North America,
South America. Asia and Oceania;
Great Britain and her colonies, being
by far the largest customers. To the
United Kingdom the s months exports
aggregated 3,76S, valued at S2,9SS, 40;
to Canada, 2,704. valued at $3.249,33S;
TO Australia and other British Oceania,
1856, valued at $2,253,547, while there
were also exported in the same period
243 machines to France. SO to Ger
many. 90 to Italy. 236 to Mexico. 1875
to the West Indies and Bermuda, $50
to South America, and GIL to various
countries in Asia and other Oceania.
The distribution of exports and
sources of imports of aeroplanes and
motion picture film are only available
for the 6 months ending with Decem-
ber. 1911. OF the 16 aeroplanes ex-
ported in that period were sent to
Canada. to Brazil, to Cuba, and
each to Jamaica and Australia. OF the
13 aeroplanes imported during that
time. IL were from France, and from
England. OF the AZ million linear
feet of motion picture film exported
in the months ending with Decem-
ber. 81 million were sent to England,
3 million to Canada, y million each
to France and Brazil, and smaller
quantities to the Philippine Islands,
Australia, Japan, Newfoundland, Pan
ANA. Bermuda and other countries. A
large proportion of the motion picture
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