Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-09-23
The CONNER
CIAL RELATIONS
OF UNITED STATES
Where Our Manufacturers Have
a Splendid Opportunity to
Increase Their Present Bust
ness and Establish New Ones

Washington, Sept 21,-What and
how much the nations of the world
are buying and the proportion of the
purchases obtained from the United
States as told by American consular
officers located at the chief strategic
points of trade are discussed in Com
mercial Relations of the United
States a volume of 272 pages, just
issued by the Bureau of Foreign and
Domestic Commerce, Department of
Commerce. Every part of the world
is covered by this book and the
facts therein presented, based upon
revised statistics for 1912, are
from the standpoint of the foreign
countries and therefore differ some
what in classifications and totals, from
the corresponding figures based upon
returns of exports as reported by col
lectors of customs in the United
States.
Four countries other than the
United States offer each a market for
over a billion dollars worth of foreign
products-the United Kingdom, Ger
many, France, and the Netherlands.
Great Britain buys $4,000, 900 worth,
about 20 per cent of which is from
this country; Germany, $2,500,000,-
900, with Is per cent from the United
States, France, 81 SOC, 0O0,00 of which
IL per cent is from the United
States, and the Netherlands, an impor-
tant center for the transshipment of
foreign goods, nearly 81 $4,000, 100000,
in which American goods figure to the
extent of about 10 per cent.
Belgium's annual purchases fall
just short of $1,OO0.00O,000 in value.
United States products supplying
about s per cent, while Austria Hung
airy, Italy. Canada, Russia. India, Aus
tralia, Argentina, and Japan are next
in order with imports ranging from
1922, 100000 to about $300000,000
These countries very greatly however.
in the proportion of their purchases
from the United States, Canada taking
65 per cent and India per cent accord
ing to the official figures published in
the volume AS market for American
products India is only one-third as
important as Brazil, Austria Hungary
is equal to Cuba, Japan is about 10
per cent as large as Canada, and
China is only half as large as Argen-
tina.
A particularly important feature OF
this new analysis of world trade Is the
Introductory chapter which shows the
character of goods exported by Europe
and the classes of goods imported by
those countries which have heretofore
looked chiefly to Europe for their re-
puirements of foreign merchandise.
Manufactures form SO per cent of the
exports from the United Kingdom, rs
per cent of the exports from Switzer-
land, Go per cent of the exports from
Germany, So per cent of the exports
from France, and AZ per cent of the ex-
ports from Austria Hungary; while
Canada, Central and South America,
Australia. New Zealand, and South
Africa-all of them important markets
for manufactures-send large quanti-
ties of foodstuffs and raw materials to
Europe in exchange for products of
manufacture.
From the list of countries discussed
in Commercial Relations of the
United States" Austria Hungary may
be taken as typical of countries COM
peting for the world trade in manu-
features and Brazil as representing
the great agricultural communities in
which manufactures are chiefly sold.
Austria Hungary sold in 1912 $4,000
600, worth of textiles, $19000O00, of
clothing, $21 100000 of metal goods,
$500 900 of wooden ware, sic, 100000 of
glassware, $10,00O,0OO of leather goods,
100000 of machinery, and paper
goods, wines, chemicals. chinaware,
vehicles, and numerous other articles
in considerable amounts
The United Kingdom, Germany.
Switzerland, and Belgium are of even
greater Importance in their sales of
manufactures, the details being also
presented in the volume in question.
| Brazils imports exceed $30S, 900, 900
value, only Is per cent of which We're
from the United States which takes
| 40 per cent of the Brazilian exports.
Automobiles, railway cars, iron and
steel, cotton goods, machinery, and
other leading classes of manufactures
are classified in the book so as to show
the relative contributions of leading
countries.
Complete details for this and other
countries may be obtained from Com