The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-08-19
WHAT AND WHERE ARGENTINA BUYS
 AND SELLS

0 A foreign trade of nearly a billion dollars a 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 a little more, exact. it was about ssso.ooo. 900. That is nearly $125 per capita. The foreign trade of the United States is about s44.2o per capita Evidentz ly Argentina is some trading naltio1l, and the questions what and from whom does that country buy? and what and to whom does it sell? are just now of peculiar importance. This Pan- European war is stirring up the business interests of the United States as they have never been stirred be- fore, and they want. to know a mum Der of things.
 Tn this connection the Pan-Ameri5 can Union. Washington. D. o.. pub nahes in the July number of it's Monthly Bulletin a, detailed review of the commerce of Argentina for 1913 which reveals some very important facts. For instance. we find that..i in textiles. including manufactures of silk. wool cotton and other fibres. Ar gentina, imported nearly. sso.ooo.ooo worth; iron. steel, and manufactures thereof, to the value Of $50, 900. 900 j; railway cars. automobiles. and other vehicles, worth over ss7. .ooo. 900; earths, stone. coal. etc, nearly ss7.- iooo,eoo; building materials nearly sss. .0oo. 900; and food products ss5,- Iooo,ooo. These are but six of the 1s major classincations given in detail. Who sold Argentina the goods The following are the amounts in round numbers of the imports from each of the leading six countries, given in Ar genuine dollars and an Argentine dol E lar is worth about s7 cents in United States money: From the United Kingdom 1Grear Britain not including Canada. Australia or other posses sions) s1so.soo. .ooo; Germany, s71.- ooo.ooo: United States. ss2.ooo.ooo; France. sss. .ooo. 900: Italy. ss5,ooo.- 900; Belgium. s2a.ooo. .ooo. Of the total Imports the United Kingdom furnished s1.1 per cent; Germany 16.s per cent; United States, 14.7; France, g. Italy. sls; Belgium. 5.2. IT sother; words over 5z per. cent of Ar Igentina's imports in 1918 came from four of the European countries nov Ibusily engaged in trying to extermin, ate one another.
 | The second question. what and te whom does the country sell? is abou as important as the first. If Argen tina can't sell her products she can l get the money to buy. That's g. pret tyl plain proposition. Now, what doe she sell? Pre-enninentIy food pro
 duets, needed just now by the warrinl : nations as perhaps never before. Las year Argentina sold over $soO,0oo.oo . worth of agricultural products. con
 sisting principally of corn $112.ooo.
 900; wheat. $1os.ooo. .ooo; nnseed
 $50. .ooo; oats. s2o.ooo. 900; barley
 $1.ooo. .ooo: rye. $567.ooo; potatoes
 fruits, hay. setc., in smaller quantities
 Of live animals and meat product
 she sold s166, 100000 worth. Of frog
 en beef over s21. 1000 tons went to tn
 United Kingdom; s.415 tons to Italy
 2.ss2 tons to the United States; an
 767 tons to France. Of frozen nut
 ton 45,131 tons went. to the Unite
 Kingdom: 254 tons to France; an
 245 tons to the United States.
 Food products like those mentione
 will be in such demand that ways an
 means will be found to transport thel
 to Europe, and if there should be an
 surplus doubtless the United State
 will be glad to be larger purchase
 Other products. however, may not |
 so easily disposed of. For instanc of the exports of salt cattle hides. owe ] 30,0oo tons went to Germany; 14,oo tons to the United Kingdom; IT,
 tons to the United States; 1000 tor to Belgium. etc. Of flint cattle hide t nearly 11.ooo tons went to the Uni ,,
 ed States; 4.soo tons to Germany; ?