The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1914-08-21
BIG TRADE IN
ARGENTINE IS
AWAITING U. s.
Great Britain and Germany Have
Been Large Sellers There

foreign trade OF nearly billion
dollars year is enough to make the
exporters and importers of the United
States sit up and take notice OF any
country. and Argentina crowded that
figure last year. To be little more
exact, it was about $3.50, O0O, 900. That
Is nearly Sl25 per capita. The foreign
trade of the United States is about
$44.2O per capita. Evidently Argen-
tina is some trading nation, and the
questions what and from whom does
that country buy? and what and TO
whom does it sell? are Just now of pc
culiar Importance. This Pan European
war is stirring up the business inter-
ests of the United States as they have
| never been stirred before. and they
want To know number of things
In this connection the Pan American
Union, Washington, ID. G.. publishes i'm
the July number of it's Monthly Bulle-
| tin a detailed review of the commerce
OF Argentina for 1913 which reveals
stance, we find that in textiles. includ-
ing manufactures of silk. wool. cotton,
and other fibres, Argentina imported
nearly $90,000,000 worth; iron. steel and
manufactures thereof, To the value of
S5OO00,0O0; railway cars, automobiles,
and other vehicles worth over $S7.-
100000: earths, stone, coal. etc. nearly
$3IO00,OOO; building materials nearly
S36,OOO,OOO and food products $50 ,OOO.-
OOO. These are but six of the 10 major
classiflcations given in detail.
Who sold Argentine the goods? The
following are the amounts in round
numbers of the imports from each OF
the leading six countries, given in Ar
gentine dollars and an Argentine dol
lar is worth about 81 cents i'm United
States money: From the United King
dom (Great Britain not including Can
ada Australia and other possessions)
$l30,900,000; Germany, 1000, 000
United States. $62,OOO,OOO; France,
$SS,000,000; Italy. $35, 00O, 900: Belgium.
S22,000,000. OF the total imports the
United Kingdom furnished 81 per
cent; Germany. 1863 per cent; United |
States, IA; France 3; Italy, SO; Bel
GUM, 90. In other words over "a |
per cent of Argentinas imports in |
1913 came from four Of the European |
countries now busily engaged in try
ing to exterminate one another.
What Argentine Sells.
The second question, what and to |
whom does the country SELF, is about |
as important as the first. IL Argentina |
can't sell her products she can't get the
money to buy. That's a pretty plain
proposition. Now, what does she sell? |
Prominently food products. needed |
just now by the warning nations as
perhaps never before. Last year Ar
gentina sold over $4,000 900 worth of
agricultural products. consisting prin-
eipally of corn. $l12,OOO,OOO; wheat,
linseed, $5OOOO,OOO; oats,
$20,OOO,000; barley, $1,OOO,OOO; rye.
$4,000, potatoes, fruits, hay etc, i'm
smaller quantities
OF live animals and meat products
she sold $166,OO0,00O worth. OF frozen
beef over 321OOO tons went to the
United Kingdom 3,415 tons to Italy;
2,S32 tons to the United States. and
I67 tons to France. OF frozen NUT
ton 45,13l tons went to the United
Kingdom; 254 tons to France: and 2i5
tons to the United States.
Food products like those mentioned
will be in such demand that ways and
al L., |
to Europe, and if there should be any