The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1912-01-16
IRON AND STEEL EXPORTS
FROM THE UNITED STATES
Total Nearly Quarter Billion Dollars
For The Year 1911

dollars. in addition TO which
exports of agricultural machinery ag-
gregated nine million dollars. TIL,
United States is third, the 1910 figures
being POI million dollars for iron and
steel and 81 million for agricultural
implements. Belgium shows e5 mil
lion dollars worth Of iron and steel,
including agricultural machinery. ex-
ported i'm 1910, and France total OF
40 million dollars, exclusive Of IL mill
lion dollars worth OF agricultural ma
chinery. From Switzerland and Swe-
den the exports of iron and steel were.
In the latest available year, about is
million dollars each, exclusive Of agri-
cultural machinery amounted to near
ly one million dollars in the case Of
Sweden and about $4,000 I'm that OF
Switzerland.
U. S. Makes Rapid Progress.
While the United States thus ranks
only third as an exporter of iron and
steel, her progress in that branch OF
commerce has been rapid. The total
exports of that class Of articles hav-
ing increased from 1903 million dollars
In 1901, to nearly or quite $50 million
in 1911, and Of agricultural imple-
ments, from II million to 35 million
dollars during the same period. TAX
Ing the period 19OO-19iO, the latest !
period for which figures are available |
In the case Of foreign countries, the /
nf frot,
has been as follows: The United King
dom, from 271 to 36l million dollars:
Germany, from III to 339 million:
United States, from 1870 to POI million;
France, from q TO 45 million: Belgium
from II 10 65 million: and Switzerland
from IL TO is million dollars. In ex-
ports of agricultural machinery the
United States leads all other coun-
tries, with "A total in 1910 OF 81 mill
lion dollars, against Is million for the
United Kingdom, million for Ger
many, and IL million for France.
The $50 million dollars worth of iron
and steel and 35 million dollars worth
Of agricultural Implements exported
from the United States last year found
markets i'm practically every part of
the civilized world. Steam locomo-
tives and steel rails went largely to
Canada. Mexico. Brazil, Argentina and
Japan. where the rapid development Of
enabled an increased absorb
ton of those materials from this
country. Structural iron and steel OF
american manufacture is being utiliz-
I'd i'm increasing quantities by most
If the leading countries of North Am.
erica, as well as in Australia and ia.
van. The farms of Canada. Argentina
Brazil. Australia and New Zealand ar,
increasing quantities of Am
,rican wire.
Many Yankee Articles Sold.
Our sales of electrical machinery
show a healthy expansion in such i'm.
,ortant markets as the United King
lom and other European countries, as
veil as the newer communities of the
Western hemisphere. The same might
,e said of sewing machines and metal
working machinery. American cash
egisters and typewriters are facilitat-
ng business in offices scattered In
very part of the world-in France the
United Kingdom and Germany; In
'anada, Mexico and Cuba; i'm Argent
Ia and Brazil: i'm India and Australia, ,
nd i'm many other countries. nearly
II of them showing larger totals in
oil than in any earlier year.
The. principal articles forming the
uarter billion dollars worth of iron
nd steel prophets exported from the
United States in the calendar year 1911 ,
With the approximate value of each {
ased upon eleven months figures al
eady ut hand. are: sheets and plates. I
8 million dollars: builders hardware,
avs and tools. II million; locomotives
nd other engines, IL million; steel |
ails. IL Million; pipes and fittings. IL @
million; wire, II million; structural |
ron and steel, II million; sewing ma
hines. nine million: electrical ma \
hinery. eight million: mining ma O
hinery. seven million; bars and rods
We million: cash registers, four mill
on; pumps and pumping machinery.
our million; printing presses, three
lillion: sugar mill machinery, 3 mil
on; and tin and terne plates. nearly
We million dollars, or five times az
,uch as in the preceding year; while
toves and ranges. shoe machinery.
lundry machinery, scales and ball
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