The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1912-03-22
TRADE WITH MEXICO
FAST FALLING OFF

Washington, ID. c.. March 1S.-Trade
of the United States with Mexico is
showing the effect of the disturbed
business conditions in that country.
This is especially true with reference
to exports which show much greater
decline than imports. Exports to Mex
leo during the last year show a fall
of about 20 per cent when compared
with the Immediately preceding year,
while imports show also slight de-
cline but less than that of exports. The
total figures of the bureau of statistics,
department of commerce and labor, is
$52,271, ,9S7 against $64,671 ,659 in the
corresponding months of the imme-
diately preceding year. a decline of
about IL million dollars, or an aver
age falling off of little more than a
million dollars a month during this
period. Imports from Mexico during
the same period amounted to $59,227.-
SIC, against $59, 1881 $50 during the cor
responding period of the preceding
year, being less than million dollars
decrease.
This falling off of IL million dol
lars in the exports to Mexico in the
II months ending with January 1912
becomes even more apparent when
contrasted with our trade with other
parts OF the world. Exports to South
America, for example, show an in
crease of 20 per cent in the seven
months ending with January 1912,
when compared with the corresponding
months of the preceding year; those
to Cuba and the other West Indies,
slight increase; while Mexico, the ex-
ports during the months ending with
January, 1912, decreased nearly 25 per
cent, and during. the year, as indi-
Gated above, about 20 per cent. In
every month since April. 1911, the
value of merchandise exported to Mex
leo has been less than that of the cor
responding month of the preceding
year, April, 1911. having been in fact
the only one of the past IL months
which did not show decline in ex-
ports to Mexico when compared with
the corresponding month of the pre-
ceding year
Manufacturers form by far the larg-
est part of our exports to Mexico un-
der ordinary conditions. OF the so
million dollars worth of domestic mer-
chandise exported to Mexico during
the fiscal year 1911, manufactures of
iron and steel alone amounted to over
20 million dollars; cars, about 2 mil
lion; boots and shoes, and other man
ufactures of leather, about million;
cotton seed oil, nearly million; lum-
ber, nearly 3 million; scientific instru-
ments, more than | million; chemicals,
chiefly manufactured, over | million;
explosives, nearly l million; automo-
biles, over A million; agricultural i'm
plements, over 1a million; glass and
Siaoo hSdAty Y AAiAAAOAy
features of India rubber nearly II mil
lion; furniture, about II of a million;
and a large number of other manu-
factures in less sums, while in other
articles the reports of the bureau of
statistics show corn to the value of
nearly ) million dollars and meats,
about million, in each case material
increase over the preceding year
The falling off in exports to Mexico.
as above outlined, is evidently mere
part of the general reduction in her
imports, reduction in which the
United States participates to some
what less degree than do other coun-
tries. An examination of the latest
official publications of the Mexican