The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-04-17
AEROPLANES, AUTOMOBILES
AND MOTION PICTURE FILMS
IN FOREIGN TRADE OF J.. S.

Scores Of aeroplancs, thousands OF
automobiles, and millions Of feet OF
motion picture film appear among the
articles forming the foreign trade of
| the United States for the current fis.
cal year The number of aeroplanes
imported and exported during the fis-
| cal year which ends ninety days hence
will aggregate a half.hundred valued
at approximately a quarter of a mil.
| lion dollars. The number of automo-
| biles imported and exported will ag-
gregate approximately twenty thou
sand, valued at about twenty-five mil
/ lion dollars. The motion picture film
imported and exported will amount to
Fseventy-fye million feet in length, or
sufficient to reach more than half
way round the world
The large proportion Of this trade
as TO aeroplanes, automobiles, and
motion picture films, occurs in ex-
ports. The figures for the eight
months ending with February show
the number of aeroplanes imported as
thirteen, valued at $4S,633; the num-
Der exported, twenty-siX, valued at
500, 1876, of which nineteen, valued at
S71,195, were of domestic manufac-
ture Automobiles imported in the
eight months ending with February,
1912, aggregate III, valued at S1,572,-
376 this figure being exclusive of au-
tomobile parts, s212,192. The auto
mobiles exported aggregate 12,347,
valued at $12,O64, 1888, to which should
be added automobile tires, valued at
$l,641 1873, and other automobile parts,
$2,426,264. OF motion picture film the
imports in the eight months aggregat-
ed S,97S,2S4 feet, valued at $516,4O7,
while the exports aggregated 1857
ISL feet, valued at $3,927O97 4
The growth in exports of aero
planes, automobiles, and motion pic
ture films has been especially rapid.
The record of exports of aeroplanes
lind motion picture films only began
with the present fiscal year, and com
PARSONS by years are not, therefore,
possible. OF automobiles, however,
the record extends back to the fiscal
year 1902. During that period the eX-
ports have grown from $94S,52S in
1902 to $17,594,336, in 1911 inclusive
of automobile tires. For the fiscal
year now approaching its close the
total exports of automobile and parts,
will approximate, if not exceed, TWEEN
ty-five million dollars in value. In
the meantime imports of automobiles
have grown at a less rapid pace, from
$550,0O0 in the fiscal year 1902 to
$2,25O,759 in 1911, and an indicated
total of approximately $2,50O,OO0 in
the fiscal year 1912. The import figure
for 1912 is, in fact, much less than
that of the fiscal year 1907, when the
total was nearly five million dollars,
thus indicating 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
pr automobiles into the United States
are chiefly France, the United King
dom, Italy and Germany. From
France, the eight months imports ag-
263, valued at $647 1892; from
the United Kingdom, 161, valued at
S337854; from Germany, 1O7, valued
At $157,461; and from Italy, Sc, valued
at $209,036. The automobiles exported
rom the country are sent to various
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 eight months ex-
ports aggregated 1868, valued at 81
1888, 146; to Canada, 2704, valued at
53,249,338; to Australia and other
British Oceania, 1886, valued at $2,-
253,547, while there were also export
I'd in the same period 243 machines to
France, eighry-nine to Germany, nine
.y-six to Italy, 296 to Mexico, 1876 to
he West Indies and Bermuda, 1850 to
South America, and Gil to various
in Asia and other Oceania.
The distribution of exports and
sources of imports of aeroplanes and
notion picture film are only available
or the six months ending with De
'ember, 1911. OF the sixteen aero
planes exported in that period. nine
we're sent to Canada, three to Brazil,
wo to Cuba, and one each to Jamaica
md Australia. OF the thirteen aero
planes imported during that time,
welve were from France, and one
rom England. OF the forty-two mil,