Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1913-05-04
IMPORTS AND EXPORTS
SHOW UP VERY WELL
SECRETARY OF COMMERCE. Is
WELL PLEASED WITH
SHOWING.

WASHINGTON. d. c.. May Sec
retary of Commerce William c. Red
field, in commenting today upon the
detailed figures concerning the i'm
ports and exports of the United States
| for the month of March and the nine
months ended March, said:
The figures are striking, both In
their magnitude and in their details
The aggregate business, inward and
outward of the United States with
foreign countries for the nine months
was IA little in excess Of $4,000, ,0O0,O 900
an impressive total, which If main
taineG at the same rate would bring
the business for the entire fiscal year
we'll in excess o. S4, 100, 900, 900.
Great Britain 40 our largest custo-
mer, buying FROM us over $i7S,OOO,-
600 and selling us over $2340OO,OOO
an aggregate for the nine months in
excess of $712, 100000, or total busl-
ness Of nearly $4,000, 600 a month.
lCanada Is our second best customer,
buying from us $300000,000 in nine
months, equal to nearly S1,30O,0OO
! every working day. A pretty fair
customer, that. Then Germany comes
third. buying $26S,000,000 from us in
nine months and selling up Sli6,O0O,-
600. She is pretty fair customer,
too-buys over $1,0OO,OOO a day. And
rrth comes France TO whom We
sold $120, 1000, and from whom we
bought 100000.
1t Is when we come to look at the
details of our foreign commerce by
what are called great groups that we
get at the most striking facts If, for
example, one is told that our exports
fell off in March, as compared with
the same month a year ago, by about
$1S,0O0,000, so that we only sold
$1S7,00O,000 abroad in March, that
might not seem a favorable condition.
But when one looks little closer, he
finds that the falling off was almost
wholly In the sales Of crude materials
for use in manufacturing, and that
so far from loss there was an abso-
| lutte gain in the important items of
manufactures, which in the two i'm
portant classes of manufactures for
further use in manufacturing and In
manufacture ready for consumption
actually increased in the month of
March by. about S13.0O0,OO0. SO that
our manufacturers held tireir grip
upon the foreign markets Of the
world more strongly in March than
they did year ago.
The figures for the entire nine
months are such as to give just pride
to every thoughtful American to
whose notice they come. out of the
total transactions of $4,000, 900, 900
there is a balance in our favor of a
little over $500, 900. Doing pretty
well. that. But few comparisons
nth 1912 make 1t look even better
or example, our sales of manufac-
lures ready for use increased over the
same period lats year sSS,5OO.0O0. an
Increase in these two lines OF manu-
factured goods alone o. over s144,
500 900. an Increase in these two lines
| OF manufactured goods alone or over
s144.50O. 600, as compared with the
same period OF last year.
This does not look like weakness
in competing power. especially when
one looks at the table of percentages
published with the others. and finds
that the three groups. which include
manufactured goods Of al kinds. CON
stitute 59.5 per cent OF our total ex-
ports.