Evening star., 1914-11-18
INCREASE IN EXPORTS
OF AMERICAN PRODUCTS
Report Made by Department of Com
merce for the Month of
October.
Large Volume of Breadstufs, Meats
and Cotton Sent to Europe. De-
spite War Conditions.

Despite the intervening war period, the
exports of breadstuffs from the United
States show an increase in October OF I
nearly twenty-five million dollars when |
compared with the figures of October a
year ago, according to a statement OF |
the Department of Commerce. Exports !
of fresh beef also more than doubled
during the month, figures this year being
$S3.940, as against S36,ss3 in October,
1913. i
Notwithstanding the tremendous in
crease in food shipments, exports a |
whole did not measure up to last years |
figures. The total for the month. as
recorded at the ten chief ports of the
as against s147.s33.016 the previous
year. For the week ending November
IA, however. exports at these ports
totaled s47,5S7.330, and officials of the
continuance of the marked Improvement
in American export trade already noted :
this month and upon which the feeling
of confidence in the bright future open
ing before American industries Is based.
Handle 80 Per Cent of Exports.
The districts selected handle nearly so
per cent of the nations export trade,
and the tabulation shows that the bal
dHCc III ldsOi Ol lIllS COuttTy oH lIlleT-
national trade stood last Saturday at
s32.392,214 for the first half of Novem- /
ber Imports last week totaled s25,- |
710.9SS.
While the great improvement in ex- !!
ports shown for the day of last Saturday
by the telegraph report the Treasurr
Department receives from the ten hi
cuStomhouSeS was not continued for yes
terday, the average considered good
Mondays figures were: Exports, s4,536,
29s; imports, s4,442,690. The average |.
daily exports in November 1913 were |
s6.9S3.426: imports. s4.923,379. Figures on |
the November exports as to character and |
destination will not be obtainable. as |
Secretary McAdoo ordered manifests
foreign-bound shipping withheld from
publication for periods Of thirty days be-
ginning October %.
Increases Estimated. |
1t was stated at the commerce bureau |
that the increase in November exports |
probably would show breadstuffs AMI !
fresh meats still to be in greater demand.
while Treasury Department officials be
lieved cotton exports had so increase.
in the last two weeks that they now ap-
preached 10000 bales a week. The daily
statement for Monday notes the ship
mentS from Baltimore for Liverpool OF
1,749 bales of cotton.
So great has been the European de- |
mand or breadStuffS that wheat, corn, |
bar.ey oats and flour are going across |
the Atlantic from every port in the Unit |
ed States. Huge shipments have been |
made from San Francisco via the Panama |
canal. The tcta export business in bread |
stuffs for the ten months. ending with
October this year was 204,216,47S, as ,
against sl70, go, 519 Ior the like period :
of 1913.
Export trade in mineral oils Shove:
a marked decline last October, prob
ably because of the seizure of man
oil-laden ships by British cruisers on
the ground that shipments bound for /
neutral countries, such Italy and |
Holland, actually were destined for the |
use of the German army. Oh exports
last month totaled s11.375.S46. while the
October figure for 1913 was S15053,99o.
Figures of Ten-Month Period.
The decrease in all exports for the
ten-month period of 1914 was S212,326,-
321 The figures for 1913 We're SSH.
100. .3O1, and for 1914 s699, 500. $50.
The greatest single increase in the
October exports among the breadstuffs
was in wheat which rose from 100000
bushels in 1913 to 100000 in 1914,
Exports of oats jumped from $23.6io tC
So, 322 ,1JJ. while corn shipments IN
creased from s274. 4.2S3 to $S53,s12.
Cotton exports for October. 1914, wers
valued at $40. APO. O43. as against S10I.
::75, 197 in October, 1913. The decreas.
for the ten-month period in cotton ship
ments alone between 1913 and 1914
on.