The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-06-12
BOOTS AND SHOES IN THE FOR
 EIGN TRADE OF THE b. s.

According to a statement just issued by the Bureau Of Foreign and Domes-
 tic Commerce, Department of Com
 merce, boots and shoes exported from the United States in the dscaI year which ends with the current month will aggregate 20 million dollars in value, against million dollars in 1900 and less than million dollars in 1890,
 This total for 1913 includes about IS million dollars worth of leather boots and shoes, one-third of a million dol lars worth of slippers, and approxi- mate1y 2 million dollars worth of boots and shoes of rubber. In a6fdi- tion to this, nearly million dollars
 worth of leather boots and shoes went
 to Porto Rico and Hawaii. Meantime the importation of boots and shoes into the United States during the cur rent fiscal yeap will amount to about
 $25O,00o. The average value per pair of leather boots and shoes exported during the fiscal year 1912 was: Those
 for mems wear. $2.11; women's, $1.75;
 children's. 78 cents; and slippers, $1 05.
 The average import price of boots and
 shoes imported was about 85 cents per pair.
 All the world takes American boots and shoes. The number of countries. colonies, and dependencies to which the exports went last. year aggregated approximately 100. Cuba is the largest buyer of this class of merchandise. | ~ to that island from the United States during the fiscal year 1912, the latest period for which details of distribu- ton to all countries are available, was practically million dollars out of total of 16 million dollars worth or | leather boots and shoes exported in that year. To Canada the exports in | that year amounted to 2 1-2 million dollars; England, 1 1x2 million; Ger many, practically million; Panama, <>G HN7-aT Austria-Hungary, the Philippine Is lands and the British West Indies, each about a half million dollars; Ar genuine and Italy, each one-thlrd or a million; and Brazil, g. quarter of enli- lion dollars. To all Europe the total was 1-2 million dollars; to North America. g millions; to South A1neri- ca. 1 1-A millions; to Oceanfa, nearly ! 1 million; to Africa, quarter Of Q million dollars; and to Asia, $S5,170 The 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 of the 16 million dol | lars worth of leather boots and shoes ! exported in 1912 was, as above indi- India, the Straits Settlements, China, Korea, Siam, Belgian Kongo, Persia, 1 Egypt; British, French, Portuguese, and Spanish Africa; and French and | German Islands in the Pacific. In ad- dition to the foregoing exports of | leather boots and shoes, in the fiscal year 1912, those of india. rubber | amounted to s1,502, ,s9O, distributed to I about 70 countries, colonies, and de- l tendencies The largest values were to England, $ss9, TAB; Australia, $22s,- S94; Turkey in Europe, $146,602; and Germany, s102, 22O The other countries named in the list included India, Chi I ma. Korea, British Islands in the Pa cific, Liberia. Egypt, TripoH, and Der
 1 muda.
 The imports of leather boots and
 shoes, (which amounted to $225,197 in
 the fiscal year 1912, were chiefly from
 the United Kingdom, $112954; Turkey
 in Europe, $34, ,929; Spain, SEATS; Can
 ada. SIS. .O99: Austria Hungary, $12,805;
 China, s6,247; Germany. $6,170: and
 France, 4.41e.