The Republican journal., 1912-06-06
EXPORTS OF SEWING MACHINES.

! Sewing machine exports in the current
fiscal year will make their highest record
and will probably aggregate 10 million
dollars. Over 100 million dollars worth
have been exported from the United
States during the 4S years since the
official record of their commercial move
ment began, of which sum 80 million dol
lars worth, or one-half of the total
were exported in the brief period since
1900.
Figures compiled by the Bureau of
Statistics, Department of Commerce
and Labor, indicate that sewing machines
have for many years been an important
factor of the export trade. In 1864. the
earliest year for which record is avail
able, the exports amounted to 81, O62, 7O8:
in 1872, So, 1876, OBS; in 1882, So, CAT, SIS; in
1892, So, 1873, 1892; in 1902, 81, 022, 6e7; and
IN 1872 will probably show total of $1O,-
ooo,0oo. The steady and substantial
character OF the growth is even more
apparent from study o. the movement
by decades. In the period from 1864 to
1871 The exports of sewing machines ag-
gregated little over 10 million dollars;
in the decade 1s71-sO. 10 million; in the
decade 18S1-90, 26 million; in the decade
l89l-19OO, over 80 million; in the decade
l9ol-lo, more than 81 million, the aver
age yearly exports having thus in
creased from l 1-2 million dollars in the
1S64-70 period to over 6 million dollars in
the decade ending with 1910, with indi-
cations that the current year will record
total OF approximately $40, 600, 900.
The countries to which these increasing
exports OF sewing machines are dis
trlbuted represent every grand division
OF the world. Europe leads all other
sections, last years exports thereto hav-
ing aggregated s4,O6S, 672 in value, as
compared with S2,23O, 227 to South
America, sl,662, $50 to North America,
Sl'oz4,95l to Asia and Oceania, and $685.
3ol to Africa. Considering the exports
to Individual countries, Scotland heads
the list as market for American sewing
machines, the exports thereto in the
nscal year 1911 having been valued at
III, 436, 291. Germany ranks second, with
total of 81, 1886, 1873. The next largest
last year were 1929, SOC to Brazil, $780,
7S9 to Argentina, 1854, 915 to Mexico,
S455, $40 to Australia and Tasmania,
S436, O59 to Canada, $3.50, 4O6 to England,
1854, O3O to Cuba, 1852, 1877 to Neither
lands, S241, 337 to European Russia, and
SZ4O,V|2 to Japan. In addition to the
: foregoing, scores of other countries are
represented in various amounts from
S2Oo, 600 downward, among them Chile,
Columbia, Ecuador, Uruguay, Peru,
Venezuela and the Guianas, in South
America; Central America and the West
Indies, in North America; China, Korea,
Siam, and Turkey, in Asia, the Philip
pine Islands and certain British, French,
and German possessions, in Oceania; and
J Egypt, British Africa, Liberia, and vari-
GUS French, German, Spanish, and
Portuguese colonies in Africa. And
while in some of these cases the exports
are relatively small, the growth from
year to year is evidence that American
sewing machines are proving satisfac-
tory. this being true not only of Europe
and America but in numerous other parts
OF the world where customs of dress and
habits of industry, especially as regards
the use of machinery, are different from
those which obtain in the United States.
i The growth in exports of American
sewing machines reflects the develop
ment of the domestic industry, the value
OF its product having increased from
"a 403, 2O6 in 1860 to over $2S, 900, 900 in
1909. -