The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1912-01-11
Practically $500, 900, 600 in
Value Year Ended and in
Excess Of Earlier Years.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 6.-Tra:e be.
tween the United States and South
America in the calendar year Just
ended was practically 800 million dol
lars in value, total In excess OF that
Of any earlier year. In 1900 the trade
between the United States and that
continent aggregated ia million dol
lars; in 1905, 2i1 millions; in 1910,
$50 million; and in the first eleven
months OF 1911 for which details are
available, 273 millions, OF which over
20 million represented the month of
November, indicating for the com
plete calendar year total fully 300
millin dollars.
Our imports from South America
still exceed our exports to that con
tinert, though the latter are rapidly
gaining in the proportion they form
of the total trade, In 1900 imports
were valued at lOS million, exports at
Al million, exports thus being 90 per
cent of the total trade. In the IL
months Of 1911. imports were 165 mil
lion and exports lOs million. the lat
ter being 40 per cent of the total
trade.
The imports into the United States
from South America are chiefly
drawn from the following countries,
in the order named, the total being
being estimates for the full calendar
year, based upon II months figures
already compiled by the Bureau OF
Statistics, Department of Commerce
and Labor. From Brazil the total is
likely to be 100 million dollars com
pared with 1914 million last year;
from Argentine. 2S million, compared
with 50 million in 1910; from Chile,
10 millions, against 20 millions in the
preceding year.; from Colombia, 10
against ga million in 1910;
from Peru, million, against s IL
million in 1910; and from Venezuela,
s LIZ million, compared with IL
million dollars in the preceding year.
From Ecuador the years imports are
a little over million dollars; from
British Guiana, a little less than .
and from Dutch Guiana
about / million dollars. The Bureau
of Statistics estimates the years inn
ports from South America at approx
mately 1873 million dollars, or slightly .
less than the figures of 1910, which
are 1879 million
Exports to South America, on the
other hand, show a marked growth
when compared with those of a year
earlier, the estimated total for 1911
being 1870 million, compared with 1901
million in 1910, the former high rec
ord year. To Argentine, the largest
South American market for American
products, our exports increased from
AZ "a million dollars in 1910 to an
estimated total OF SO million in the
year just ended; to Brazil, from rs
to Is million dollars to Chile, from
10 to Is million; to Peru, from less
than million to practically 6 mil
lion; to Uruguay. from 4 10 to IL
to Venezuela, from 8 to 4 |
and to Colombia, from 4 %
to a little over 5 million dollars.
Foodstuffs and manufacturers raw
materials are the principal classes of
imported into the United
States from South America, while the
make up the bulk of
the exports from the United States to
that continent OF the Is million dol
lars worth of nitrate of soda import
ed into the United States, practically
all is from Chile. Brazilian coffee
supplies a large proportion of this
staple requirement of American |
breakfast tables, from half to three
quarter billion pounds per annum