The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1912-04-11
AEROPLANES AND
MOTION PICTURES
Aeropisnes, Automobiles And Motion
Picture Films in Foreign Trade
of The United States.

Washington, D. c., April 1t.-Scores
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 80 days hence will aggre-
gate half-hundred valued at approx
imateiy cTarter of million dollars.
The number of automobiles imported
and exported will aggregate approxi-
mately 20 thousand, valued at about
25 million dollars The motion pic
ture film imported and exuorted will
amount to IS million feet in length, or
s 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
$48,633; the number exported, 26,
valued at S99,796, of which 10, valued
at $71 1876, were of domestic manufac-
ture. Automobiles imported in the s
months ending with February, 1872
aggregate III, value at $1,572,376, this
figure being exclusive of automobile
parts, $212,192. The automobiles ex-
ported aggregate 12,S47, valued at $12,-
064,3S3, to which should be added au-
tomobile tires, valued at $1641 ,373,
and other automobile parts, $2,426,-
264 OF motion picture film the inn
ports in the 8 months aggregated g.
97S,2S4 feet, valued at $5l6,407, while
{ the exports aggregated 49,672,7S1 feet,
valued at $3.927,O97
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 S94S,52S in 1902 to $17594, 1856, 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 exl
ceed, % million dollars in value. In
the meantime imports of automobiles
have grown at a less rapid pace, from
s550,00 in the fiscal year 1902 to ST.
250,759 in 1911, and an indicated total
of approximately $2,5OO,OO0 in the
fiscal year 1912. The importsigure for
1912 is, in fact, much less than that
of the fiscal year 1907, when the total
was nearly million dollars, thus in
Iicating 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, Isl, valued at 1897 7,S54; |
from Germany, 107, valued at $751; |
461 and from italy, SO, valued at
s2O9,Os6- 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 months exports
aggregated 976S, valued at $2,9SS,146;
to Canada, 2,704, valued at $3,249, 1888:
to Australia and other British Oceania,
2 1886, valued at $2,253,547, while there
were also exported in the same period
243 machines to France, SO to Ger
many, SO to Italy, 236 to Mexico. 1876
to the West Indies and Bermuda, $50
to South America, and Gil to various
in Asia and other Oceania.
The distribution of exports and |