Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-08-11
GAIN IN U. S. EXPORTS
EXCEEDS S11O,OOO,OOO;
MANUFACTURERSLEAD
Fifty Million Increase in Goods
Ready for Consumption.
Foodstuffs Up Forty
Million
BRITAIN BEST CUSTOMER
France Next-Austria- Hungary Buys
Nothing scandinavian Com
merce Shows Big Growth

WASHINGTON, Aug. 11.-Analysis by
the Department of Commerce Of the
country's export trade for June shows
that while. as in previous months, ex-
ports Of focdstuffs greatly increased over
the corresponding month of the previous
year. exports OF manufactured products
accounted for the greater part OF the
si10.OO00OO gain over June. 1914.
Total domestic exports for the month
were 1904, ,1i5,OOO. as compared with N54,-
10000 in June, 1914. Manufactures ready
| for consumption increased from $5S,010.00O
to S11O377,0OO and manufactures for fur
| ther use in manufacturing from Sl,155WO
TO AO,2i2O0O. Il is In these heads that
munitions Of war are listed.
Exports of foodstuffs, which In previous
months OF the year had shown greater
gains than exports of manufactures, in
creased moro than Si0,000,0O0. the figures
being s25,95I,OO0 for foodstuffs in crude
condition and food animals as compared
with 11,Oi7o0O In June. 1914 and A6,395,0OO
for foodstrffs partly or wholly manu-
factured, as compared with 20,075,OoO in
the corresponding month of the previous
year.
DECREASE IN CRUDE MATERIALS
The war demand also was strikingly
displayed In the Increase from S2S5,00O to
SjO.69S,00O in the item, miscellaneous"
for these shipments included horses VAL
ued at S8,093,O00, and mules. valued at
t2,542,000. The only decrease was in crude
material for use In manufacturing, arti-
cles in this classification reaching value
of s3O,479,0O0 as against $32,s72,0O0 in June,
1914
For the entire fiscal year increases in
a. H.. - e..
cess of the increases in manufactured |
products. Foodstuffs In crude condition |
and food animals were shipped to the |
value of S5O7, ,065 900, as compared with |
Si3i $4,000 In the previous fiscal year, and |
foodstuffs, partly or wholly manufac- |
turcs, were valued at Si52, 76S,0O0 as COM
pared with S293, ,2lS,O OOO Manufactures for
further use in manufacturing were worth
1851, $4,000 as compared with 1914 .226, 900 in
1914. and manufactures ready for con-
totalled SS08, 900 as against
900 In the previous year.
Crude materials for use in manufac-
turing shrunk from 1892, 10000. in 1914, to
s5O9'436.OOO last year. The miscellaneous
item representing almost entirely ship
ments of horses and mules, increased
from S,l22,0O0 to $50, ,S16,0 900. The total of
the domestic exports for the year was
S2, ZIG. $1,000, as compared with $2,329,6S4,-
)O for the previous fiscal year.
BRITAIN BEST CUSTOMER.
Not dollar of the June exports went
10 Austria-Hungary and cnly S1767 worth
% Germany. In the previous June ex-
ports to these countries we're 81, ,43s, 900
md $16.670,0OO, respectively. Exports to
Belgium were S2,SO0OOO less than in June,
9li, and to the Netherlands $3O9I,OOO less;
tut with these four exceptions gains were
made in exports to all the larger coun-
ries of Europe.
The United Kingdom was the best Gus
orner. taking SIS, $1,000 of our goods, as
ompared with S36.43i,OOO I'm June, 1914.
rance was next, with purchases OF S43.-
JhOOO. as against SG.SS5.O0O In the previous
une. To Russia was sent $i3.914. 900
'orth, as compared with S16O2,OOO in
une. 1914, Italy's purchases increased
rom S5,7O5,OOO to S15.1S3,OOO
For the fiscal year ended June 20 last
xports to Austria, Belgium and Ger
amy aggregated S5O.769,0 900, as compared ]
ith A2s,132,OOO in the fiscal year before
lie war. The difference of $37s,OOO 90 ia
ompensated for to the extent OF S24,-
O,OOO by increases in exports to the
etherlands, Norway and Sweden. coun-
les close to the more inaccessible bel
gerents
TABLE SHOWS GAINS.
The following table shows the exports
the principal European countries for
Ie fiscal years 1914 and 1919, I