The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-08-31
TRADE OF UNITED STATES
 WITH PAN AMERICA IN 1914

Washington. D. C.. Aug. 31-Trade of the United States with other Amer lean countries in the fiscal year end-
 ed June 80, 1914. aggregated l, 303 1 cent of the entire commerce. handled | by domestic ports. Of this large New World commerce. 956 million was i with North America and 347 million i with South America Our Imports from North American countries valued at AFT million do1- lars in the fiscal year, were chiefly | from Canada, Cuba Mexico, the Cen 1 tral American States, and the British l West Indies. Our exports to, North I American countries. 529 million dol lars in value, were chiefly to Canada. 345 million; Cuba, 69 million, and Central America and MeNcos each about 39 million. The United States supplies larger proportion of the leading countries of North America than any other nation, andfin the case of Canadas Central America and Cuba, more than all other parts of the world lconbined.
 l Of our 223 million dollars worth of Imports from South America, nearly ione-half were from Brazil, about 20 per cent from Argentina, and the re- tmainder chiefly from Chile Coloxn
 bia, Venezuela and Peru. Nearly one
 fourth of our total exports of 125 mill l lion dollars. value to South America l went to Brazil and over one third to Argentina In sharp contrast with 1 tb high position of the United States l in the North American markets is its I low rank among the nations selling Egoods in South America where, in the lease ef such important counties as Argentina, Brazil, and ChiIess only about 1 5 per cent of the imports were
 from this country South Amerieal
 million dollars worth of foreign goods, our share being about IA per sIcent.
 The relatively small contributions
 of American rnanl1facturers and ax- I porters to the requirements of the I South American markets draws atten- ton to a recent publication of the Bu- Il reau of Foreign and Domestic Com merce, Department of Commerce, en- titled ssSouth Aner3ca. as an Export. and sold by the Public Printer at.
 the nominal price of 25 cents. In that publication Comm merciaI Agent Otto Wilson outlines the conditions necessary for the successful sale of goods. the lines of manufactures re-
 Quired in South America, and the
 standing of the leading nations as :, contributors to those requirements. It
 is pointed out, for example, that Ar
 gentina imports large quantities of
 manufactures of the class produced i, in the United States, but that the
 United Kingdom and Germany supply
 more of them, as whole, than this
 country; while France sells there five q times as many automobiles, Germany 20 times as many iron beams, three times as many cotton goods, and Eng
 land 25s times as much coal and twice
 as much machinery in that market as 5 the United States. This disparity in , favor of European countries extends t to many other articles and practically
 all countries of South America, each of which is interestingly discussed in f the monograph named.
 A mere enumeration of a few of the
 principal articles imported by Brazil : will serve to illustrate the opportun- . iities which await American exporters 2 lin that and other South American . fields: Arms and ammunition, cars. 7 automobiles, cotton goods, pf1arma-
 ceuticaI preparations, electrical appar- atus, cutlery, machinery, leather, : printing paper, perfuIneries, tin Il1ate, soap, and wearing apparel, all of
 which are bought in large quantities and in practically every case are ob- . tained more largely from England, ! Germany and Franco than from the
 United States The Government, s
 'tDaily Consular and Trade Reports; q are also presenting cable dispatches = from South America which Indicate t the special needs of these markets - owing to the supplies from Europe be- f ing cu- off.