The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1912-05-13
Exporas of Sewing Machines From the
United States.

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Washington, ID. c., May 13.-Sew-
ling machine exports in the current
fiscal year will make their highest
record and will probably aggregate 10
million dollars. Over 100 million dol
lars worth have been exported from
the United States during the As years
since the official record of their COM
mercial movement began. of which
sum 80 million dollars 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 ma
chimes have for many years been an
important factor of the export trade.
In 1864, the earliest year for which a
record is available the exports amount.
ed to n,062,7OS in 1872, $2,4S6,0S5;
in 1882, $2,647,515; in 1892. $9,13S,9 ,992;
in 1902, $4,02z,697; and in 1912 will
probably show total of $l0,00O,000.
The steady and substantial character
of the growth is even more apparent
from a study of the movement by de-
cades. In the period from 1864 to 1870
the exports of sewing machines aggre-
gated little over 10 million dollars
in the decade lS71-S0, Is million;N in
the decade 1SS1-90, 26 million; in the
decade fS9l-1900, over 80 million; in
the decade 190l-10, more than 81 mil
lion, the average yearly exports hav-
ing thus increased from | Y million
dollars in the 1S64-7O period to over
million dollars in the decade ending
with 1910, with indications that the
current year will record total of APP
proximately $10,000.000.
The countries to which these in
creasing exports of sewing machines
are distributed represent every grand
division of the world. Europe leads
all other sections, last years exports
thereto having aggregated $4,O6S,672
in value, as compared with $2,230,227
to South America, $1.662,6S9 to North
America, $1,OZ4,951 to Asia and 0ce-
ana, and $5S,301 to Africa. Consider
ing the exports to individual countries,
Scotland heads the list as a market
for American sewing machines, the ex-
ports thereto in the fiscal year 1911
having been valued at $1,436, pol Ger
many ranks second, with total OF
81 1886, 1888 The next largest last year
were 1929, 500 to Brazil, $6107S9 to
Argentina, $554,S15 to Mexico, $455,520
to Australia and Tasmania, $436,059
to Canada, $3.50, ,4O6 to England, 1894
$50 to Cuba, $362,737 to Netherlands,
$24t 1897 to European Russia, and
$4,000 to Japan. In addition to the
foregoing, scores of other countries
are represented in various amounts
from 100000 downward, among them
Chile, Colombia 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 Philippine Islands and GER
tain British, French, and German pos
sessions. in Oceania; and Egypt Brit
ish Africa, Liberia, and various French
German. Spanish, and Portuguese col
onies In Africa. And while in some
of these cases the exports are relative
ly small, the growth from year to year
is evidence that American sewing ma
chimes are proving satisfactory, this
being true not only of Europe and
America but in numerous other parts
0 fthe world where customs of dress
and habits of industry, especially as
regards the use of machinery, are diff
ferent from those which obtain in the
United States
The growth in exports of American
sewing machines reflects the develop
ment of the domestic industry, the
value of its product having increased
from $4,4O3,206 in 1860 to over $685.
900. 600 in 1909.