The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1912-02-03
GROWING EXPORTS OF AUTOS
FROM THE UNITED STATES

over $4,000. 900 worth Of automo-
bi1es were exported from the United
States in the calendar year 1911. or
twenty times as much as a decade
ago.. The exports to foreign countries
last year. including tires and other
parts, were valued at s21, sac, 661 and
the shipments to our own monsoon
tiguous territories, Hawaii, Porto Rico
and Alaska, $1,843,165. Ten years ago
the exports to foreign countries were
but $1,o69,7 1872 In value; by 1906 they
had grown to S4,409,I 1856; by 1910, to
$14,0S0,2a6, and in the calendar year
just ended had risen to $21,636,661, this
increase of $4,000, 900 in the exports
of American-made automobiles with
ia a single decade being n OF the
most notable achievements OF our for
eign m in recent years.
Meantime imports of automobiles
into the United States show a decreasr
ing tendency. From 1909 to 1905, be-
fore the industry had developed in this
country, imports rapidly increased,
from 100000 to $4,000, 900, the high
record in imports of this class Of
vehicles. Since 1905, however, the
Imports have steadily decreased, last
years total having been less than ST.
100000. In 1906, according to the pub
lished reports of the bureau of Stats
tics, department of commerce and la
Dor, imports and exports of automo-
biles were of about equal value, i'm
ports into the United States in that
year being S4,910,20S and exports there
from, $4,409,1S6. The following year
Witnessed a shifting of the balance of
trade in automobiles from the import
to the export side, since which. time
the excess of exports has steadily in
creased until in 1911 it was $19,190,418,
Imports in that year having been but
S2,446, 24St and exports S21,6S6,661, or
shout nine times the value of the auto
mobiles imported in the same year.
The aggregate value of automobiles
passing through ports of the United
States during the last ten years eX-
ceeded 500, 600, 900. The approximate
figures are as follows: Imports, $27,-
600, 200; exports to foreign countries,
$70,0 00. 900; shipments to Porto Rico,
Hawaii, and Alaska, IS, 200, 900; a total
for this comparatively new article of
commerce, of $102, 900, 900 in ten years.
The course of our trade in imports
and exports Of automobiles is illus
trated by the following figures cover
ing qu~adrennial years from 1909 to
1911:
Shipments
Cal. to Non-contigu-
Years. Imports Exports GUS Terri.
4 mo q Q EEn nan o 1 ncN TOO Q 81 Ta4 |
1905 =. 4,910,20s 4~,409.1S6 1850
1910 .. 2,737.20S 14,o30,226 1,45S,6 $50
1911 =. 2,446,24 21,636,661 1,848,1 65
Fiscal year imports for consump-
ton.
This rapid increase in exports of au-
from the United States is in
part due to the rapid development of
the domestic industry, in part to the
use of vehicles of this char
acter throughout the world. In 1908
exports of automobiles from France,
the United States, the United King
dom, Germany, and Italy, the leading
manufacturers of automobiles, aggre>
gated $45, 600 900, and in 1910, but two
later, had grown to SIS, 900, 900.
In 1900 the value of automobiles manu-
featured in the United States was S5,-
100000; in 1905, $50, 900, 900; and in
1903, $249,000,000. That the increased
Of automobiles in this
country is being more and more sup
piled by machines of domestic manu-
may be inferred from the fact
that imports have greatly decreased
during a period in which production
has grown from IS, 900, 900 to nearly
$3.50, 900, 900.
France is the chief source of auto
mobiles imported into the United
The imports from that coun-
try, however, in common with those
from other countries, are decreasing.
OF the $4,50O,0 900 worth imported in the
fiscal year 1906, about $4,000, 900 was
from France, $4,000 from Germany,
Ss2s,0oO from the United Kingdom, and
s285;oOO from Italy. Last year France
was credited with less than 100000