Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1912-06-04
EXPORT OF
AUTO CARS
What Is Being Shipped From
United States and Other
Countries
Special to The Tribune.

WASHINGTON, June 4--TWent
thousand automobiles will be the G:
port record of the United States
the fiscal year which ends with tn
present month, and their value, il
Guiding parts and accessories. will AZ
proximate $27,000,OOO. This state
ment is necessarily in very roun
terms, for the Bureau OF Statistics
upon whose figures the estimate i
based, has at present detailed figure
covering 10 months. They show
however nearly 1900 automobile
exported to foreign countries in thu
10 months ending with April, valued
at 1917 million dollars: parts there
of, 81 million dollars; tires, sent sep
arately from machines under the
head of exports of rubber manufac
lures, over 2 million. and automobile
engines two-thirds of million dol
lars. making total for the 10 months
of practically % million dollars and
fully justifying the assertion that for
the full ~ months the total will ap'
proximate and probably exceed $27,.
100000. This figure includes only the
exports to foreign countries and is
exclusive of the 900 machines sent
to our non contagious territory, val.
ued at about $1,5OO.O00.
This total of $27,000.000 worth of
automobiles sent out of the country
in 1912 is in marked cont act with
the figures of decade ago, 1902,
which by the way, was the first year
in which the Bureau of Statistics
found the exports of automobiles OF
sufficient importance to justify sep
arate record, the total for that year
being a little less than $1,0O0.0O0. as
against $27,0OOO0O ten years later
The growth in exports of automo'
bles from the United States has
been especially marked during the Pc
Rod since 1905. this growth being
coincident with the expansion of tho
domestic industry and correspond
ing decrease in imports of automo-
biles. Thus in the period from 1899
to 1904 the value of domestic manu-.
features of this class of articles in
creased about Is million dollars. from
) million dollars in 1899 to 80 million
in 1904, an increase of 25 million dol
lars; while in the period from 1904
to 1909 the value Of the output in
creased practically 220 million dol
lars, from 80 million dollars in 1904
to 249 million in 1909. Accompanying
this notable growth in production. the
imports of automobiles decreased
from AZ million dollars in 1906 and
3-4 million in 1907 to approximately
2k million dollars in 1912.
uyl,j~ Eroooo cAS1l lands ho u0r1d
in exports of automobiles, the United
States surpasses that and all other
countries in rapidity of growth of pro-
duction and expectation. For exam
pie, our own exports of that class Of
articles have increased from $5,O00,-
900 in the calendar year 1908 to near
ly $20,00O,000 in 1911; while in the
same period those of France increas-
ed from $24,6O0,OO to $31 zoo, 900;
those of the United Kingdom. from
$7,60O,0OO to $15,50O,000; those Of
Germany from 100000 to $11 ,000,-
900; and those of Italy from $780,.
900 to $6,100,0O0. Thus in the brief
three-year period from 1908 to 1911
there was an absolute gain of about
$4,000, 900, or 300 per cent in exports
from the United States; of $780,
900, or over 100 per cent in those
from the United Kingdom; Of 49,
100000 or 266 per cent in those from
Germany; and of 100000. or slightly
more than 10 per cent in those from
Italy.
Approximately Is per cent of the
automobiles exported from the Unit
oh "a 10 q
about 40 per cent to Europe. chiefly
Great Britain; about 20 per cent to
British Australia: about s per cent
to South America; and smaller pro-
portions to Mexico. the West Indies,
and various countries in Asia, Ocean
ia and Africa. During the 10 months
ending with April, the latest period
for which figures of distribution are
available in the Bureau of Statistics,
Ais automobiles were exported to
the United Kingdom, 4.424 to Canada,
1904 to British Oceania. 1882 to
South America, S49 to Asia, and 9th
err Oceania; and 1902 to all other for
eign countries. There were also
shipped. during the same period. 40
automobiles to Hawaii. 342 to Porto
Rico and II to Alaska
Of the automobiles imported into
the United States France supplied
about one-half OF the S45 machines
imported during the 10 months end
ing with April, 339 were from France,
40 from the United Kingdom, rs
from Italy. 1903 from Germany, and
113 from all other countries.
The fall in export price of automo
biles is an especially striking feat
ure of the Bureau of Statistics fig
ures. They show an average valua-
ton for all automobiles exported in
1909 of $500 each and in 1912. of
$3.50. the average export price in 1912
being thus but little more than one.
half that of 1909. This remarkable
fall in the average valuation OF the
automobiles exported is due in part
to general reduction in the selling
price of automobiles during the per-
iod in question, a disposition on the
part of manufacturers to reduce the
price of the machines to meet popu-
lar demand, but more especially to
the fact that large numbers Of par
TALLY used. or "secpnd-hand" ma
chimes, are in recent years being ex-
ported to Canada. Mexico. and the