The Sentinel=record., 1914-08-26
ARGENTINA and
HER EXPORT TRADE
THIS PRODUCTIVE SOUTH AMER.
lcAN COUNTRY BUYS AND
SELLS BY THE BILLIONS
Her Foreign Trade Amounts to $125
Per Capita, Or A Grand Total Of
More Than $500, 10000

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, is was about $3.50, 1900. That
is nearIy 1925 per capita The foreign
trade OF the United States is about
S44.20 per capita. Evidently Argen-
tina is some trading nation, and the
questions what and from whom does
that country buy? and What and 10
whom does it sell? are just now Of
peculiar importance. This pan-Euro-
pean war is stirring up the business
interest of the United States as they
have never been stirred before, and
they want to know a number of things
In this connection the PAN AMER
ICAN UNION, Washington, d. c., pun
fishes in the July number of its
MONTHLY BULLETIN a detailed re-
view of the commerce of Argentina
for 1913 which reveals some very i'm
portant facts. For instance, we find
that in textiles, including manufdc-
lures of silk, wool, cotton and other
fibres, Argentina imported neariy $780,
100000 worth; iron, steel, and manu-
features thereof, to the value of $780,
ltnynx mol hi n5
and other vehicles, worth over $37-
| 0000 900; earths, stone coal, etc. nearly
| $G7, 100000; building materials nearly
| $36,000,000; and food products $685.
| 000,0 600. These are but six of the 10
major classifications 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, Civ
en- in Argentina dollars. and an Ar
gentna dollar is worth about 81 cents
IN United States money: From the
| United Kingdom Great Britain not
| including Canada, Australia, or other
possessions) $130,900,000; Germany,
| $71 100000 United States, $62 100000
France. $3S 10000: Italy, $4,000, 900;
Belgium. 22.0O0,OO0. OF the total i'm
ports the United Kingdom furnished
1914 per cent; Germany, 1863 per cent;
United States, 14.7; France, 8; Italy,
SO; Belgium, 81. In other words
over "a per cent. of Argentina's inn
ports in 1913 came from four of the
European countries now busily en-
gagged in trying to eXterminate one
another.
The second question, What and to
whom does the country SELF, is as
can't sell her products she can't get
the money to buy. That's a pretty
plain proposition. Now, what does she
sell? Pre-eminently food products,
needed just now by the warning ma
lions as perhaps never before. Last
year Argentina sold over $300,000,0 900
worth of agricultural products, CON
sisting principally of corn, sll2,000,-
000 wheat, $103 100000; linseed, $780,
100000; oats. $20,000,000; barley,
$LOO0,000; ryee, $4,000, potatoes,
fruit, hay, etc, in smaller quantities.
OF live animals and meat products
she sold $ll6000,0 coo worth arone. or
frozen beef over - 900 tons went to
the United Kingdom; 3,il5 tons to
Italy; 1889 tons to the United States;
and 7G7 tons to France. OF frozen
mutton 1871 tons went 10 the United
Kingdom; 254 tons to France; and
245 tons to the United States.
Food products like those mentioned
will be in such demand that ways and
means will be found to transport them
to Europe, and if there should be any
surplus doubtless the United States
win he glad to be a larger purchaser.
lOther products. however, may not be
so easily disposed of. For instance.
of the export of salt cattle hides, over
10000 tons went 20 Germany, ii,010
tons to the United Kingdom; 1l,0o0
tons to the United States; 1000 TO
| Belgium, etc. OF flint cattle hides
nearly II, 900 tons went TO the United
| states; 1900 tons to Germany; $3.50
| loiAo w tAhig bNNi AffNN ANbo w a'fi-
| GUM, etc, OF unwashed wool over
10000 tons went to Germany; $4,000
tons to France; 1880 tons to the
United Kingdom; 10000 tons to Be-
GUM, and $500 tons to the United
States. Quebracho logs and que
bracho extract (for tanning purposes)
were exported TO the amount of about
s10.000,000 The question for the con-
sumers of such products as these in
the United States will be how much OF
them can this country buy? The great
er the imports from Argentina into
| this country, the greater will be the
amount of the exports to that com
try. Both sides of the question must
be considered.