The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1913-06-10
UNITED Jll''i'Ii;:l j STATES
SHOES WORLD
.
Twenty Million Dollars Worth of
Footwear Sold Abroad in
the Past Year
LESS THAN MILLION IN 1890
Present Importations Valued at
Only Quarter Of Million
CUBA IS the LARGEST BUYER

Washington, June iO--4Nl the world
rs coming to the United States for
loots ana snoes.
According to a statement Just is.
sued by the bureau Of foreign and
domestic commerce, department of
commerce, boots and shoes exported
from the United States in the fiscal
year which chds with the current
month, will aggregate 20 millions dol
lars In value, against ) million dol
lars In 1900 ana less than | million
dollars in 1890 This total for 1918
includes about Is million dollars
worth of leather boots and shoes, one
third of q million dollars worth of
slippers, and approximately million
dollars worth of boots and shoes Of
rubber In addition to this. nearly
? million dollars worth of leather
boots and shoes went To Porto Rico
and Hawaii. Meantime the importa-
ton of boots aud shoes into the
United States during the current fiscal
year will amount to about s250.O0O.
The average value per pair oi leather
boots and shoes exported during the
fiscal year 1912 was: Those for mems
wear SILL; womcn's, $l.12; children's.
rs cents, and slippers. slO5. The av-
crage import price of boots and shoes
imported was about 80 cents per pair.
Hundred Countries Buy Them,
Al the world takes Anne rican boots
and shoeG. The number Of countries
colonies. and dependencies to which
the exports went last year aggregated
! approximately 100. Cuba is the larg-
est buter of this class of merchandise.
| The value of boots and shoes exported
10 that island from the United States
! during the fiscal year 1912, the latest
! period fer which details of diStribu-
| tion Co all countries are available. was
| practically 3 million dollars out of u
total of 10 million dollars worth OF
| leather boots and shoes exported in
that year. 10 Canada the exports in
that year amounted 10 2ia million
dollars: England, ~ million: Ger
| many, practically ! million: Pananla,
! three quarters of q million; France,
| Austria Hungary, the Philippine ISL
unds. and the British West Indies.
each about half million dollars;
Argentina aud italy, each one-third
of q million. aud Brazil, a quarter Of
a million dollars. To all Europe the
total was AZ million dollars to North
! America, million; TO South Ameri-
ca. ~ million; to Oceania. nearly
! | million: 10 Africa. a quarter of "A
million dollars and to Asia, sS5.17O.
Extent Of Distribution.
Tie wide extent of distribution Is
shown by the fact that the list of
countries named by the bureau of
foreign and domestic commerce as the
destinations pt the i6 million dollars
worth of leather boots aud shoes eX-
ported In 1872 was, as above Indicated
nearly 100. and among them India, the
straits Settlements China, Korea
Siam, Belgian Kongo. Persia, Egypt
| British. French. Portuguese. and
Spanish Africa; and French and Ger
man islands in the Pacific. In addi-
ton to the foregoing exports oi
leather boots and shoes, i'm the fiscal
year 1912, those Of india rubber
amounted to sl.5O2. 800 distributed t.
about 20 countries. colonies, and de-
Tendencies The largest values were
to England. S339,743; Australia. $223,'
o3i: Turkey in Europe, $lt6.602; anc
Germany, $1o2,22O. The other coun'
tries named in the list included In
dia. China. Korea. British islands II
the Pacific Liberia, Egypt. Tripoli
and Bermuda.
The Imports of leather boots ant
shoes, which amounted to s225,l91 II
the fiscal wear 1912. were chiefly from
the United Kingdom. $i12.9J<; Turkey
I'm Europe, $3d,922; Spain $l9,7i5
Canada siS,C99. Austria Hungary
s12, 500: China. sG.2i7; Germany
S6,i70, and France. i,419