The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1912-06-05
AlIIlS
Exported By the United States
III One Year Reach 90
GOO n Number


WASHINGTON, d !. c., June 81
Twenty thousand automobIleA win
be the export record Of the Bnitet
States in the fiscal year which end
with the present month. and theli
value, including parts and acces
SORES. VIII approximate 1000.
600. This statement Is necessarily
in very round terms, for the Bureau
lof Statistics. upon whose ngures the
1 estimate Is baseds has at present de.
tailed figures covering but ter
months. They show, however
nearly 1900 adtomobiles exported
to foreign countries IN the ten
months ending with April valued
lat t6 ia million dollars; parts
thereof. S1-4 million dollars tires
sent separately from machines I'M
der the head Of exports OF rubber
manufactures. over two million, aud
automobile engines two4tnifds Of q
million dollars. making total fol-
the ten months Of practically %
million dollars and fully. Jnstityine
the assertion. that for the. full
twelve months the total WIN ap.
iprox mate and probably exceed
s27, 100000. This figure includes
,enly the exports to foreign countries
and is; exclusive Of the 500 ma
Ichines sent to our non-contlg aoas
lteFFitory, valued at su,5oo,ooo.
The total of $2I, 100000 worth
lotiautomobiles sent ON. Of the: eoun-
try in 1912 is in marked coptrast
with the figures Of a decade ago
1902. which, by the way, was the
hrst year in which the Bureau Of
Statistics found the exports of au.
tomobIles of sufficient Importance to
justify separate record, the total
for that year being little less than
81, 100000, as against s250oO,ooq
ten years later.
The growth in exports Of auto
mobiles from the United States has
been especially marked during the
period since 1905, this growth being
coincident with the expansion Of the
domestic Industry and a correspond.
ing decrease in imports of automo-
biles. Thus in the period from
1893 to 1904 the value of domestic
manufactures OF this class OF articles
increased about IS million dollars,
from S million dollars in i S99 toi 80
million in rs04, an increase Of %
million doilars; while in the period
from 1904 tos19Os the value Of the
output increased practically 220
million dollars from 80 million dol
lars in 1904 to 249 millionbin 1909 J.
Accompanying this notable growth
in production, the imports of auto
mobiles decreased from 4 142 mil
lion dollars in 1905 and a ga mil
lion in 1907 to approximately 2 1-2
million dollars in 1912. H..
While France still leads the world
in exports of automobiles, the
United states surpassed that and al
other countries in rapidly Of growth
Of production and expectation. For
example, our own exports of that
class Of articles have increased from
So, 900, 600 in the calendar year
1908 to nearly $2O,OOO,OOO in 1911;
while in the same period those Of
France increased from $24,600,o0O
to $31 100000; those of the United
Kingdom from $7,6OO,eOo to $751;
100000: those of Germany from
SO, O0O,O 900 to $11, 100000; and
those OF italy from s5,5Oo,OOO to
So, 100000. Thus in the brief
three-year period from 1908 to 1911
there was an absolute gain of about
sis. OO0, 900, or 800 per cent in ex-
ports from the United States; OF ST.
100000, or over 100 per cent in
those from the United Kingdom; Of
100000, or 266 per cent from
Germany; and of 100000, or
slightly more than ten per cent in
those from Italy.
approximately rs per cent Of the
automobiles exported from the
United States are shipped to Cana
da; about 40 per cent to Europe,
chiefly Great Britain; about 90 per
cent to British Australia; about s
per cent to South America, and
smaller proportions to Mexico, the
West indies and various countries
n Asia, oceanica ana Africa. Dur
ing the ten months end ng with
April. the latest period for which
figures Of distribution are available
in the Bureau Of Statistics, .4,716
automobiles. were exported tQ the
United kingdom; 1874 to Canada;
1904 to British oceania; and
| / SOP to all other foreign countries.
There were also shipped during the