Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1915-02-10

: UNITED STATES NOT
y BEHIND IN LATIN
=: AMERICAN TRADE

The total foreign trade OF the 20
Latin American republics for the seq.
1913 MAS S2.s64 S.6.224. OF this a;noNnt
s1.S25,15".e2I represented imports and
s1.53a. 12S.597 exports.
The figures ABOVE axe compiled by
the Pan American Union from orig
inal reports from the severa! countries.
For Panama the figures are partly es-
;imatcd. being dundee upon incom-
piete returns, ana for Nicaragua and
Ecuador they are for the year 1919.
IN all other cases the perioG covered
is the calendar y"al 1918.
How is this t-ade distributed among
the principal commercial nations OF
The world. anu n particular. What share
HIS the United states therein! IT
comes sometimes as n surprise to
American wh"n they are told that the
United states ,njcys IL larger proper
tiun of the foreign trade of the Latin
American republics INA amy other
country III thu world. In 1913 the
share of .he United states was more
than three times THAT of France nearly
double that ri Germany. and ~ per
cent greater than that of the United
Kingdom. United States. SSc34So.S45;
United kinsdon. i 43.5S6.3S6; Ger
many. S401.l33.S1l; France, *23S,S13,-
453.
Unt;l 1913 tire lead OF the United
states in the foreign trade of Latin
America Was due 10 It's share of Latin
American exports but the United King
dom has heretofore led in the volume
of Latin American imports. in 1913.
for the first time. the United States
took the lead in imports. the value of
Its shipment to the 20 countries being
S323.SS1.345 as against the United King
don. s~S22.22S.o.3. Germany SILL
916.2O2. n France. S11O.4S4.3S5. Not
witllStandina the efforts pur forward
by the British manufacturers in 1914.
and particularly ince the beginning OF
the war. to maintain their position IN
the Latin American import trade and
to capture a large share of the Ger
man trade it can be predicted with
reasonable confidence tina the lead IN
this trade acquired first by the United
States i'm 1913 will not be lost in 1914.
In the field OF Latin American ex~
ports the United States i'm 1913 took
goods to the value of $477, 62S. 400. the
United Kingdom 1921 .25S.S13. Germany
s1S9. lot. l72. France Sl2S .323.06S. In
Guatemala, Honduras. Nicaragua. Jan
anna. the Dominican Republic. Haiti.
Argentina. Bolivia. Paraguay ana Uru-
quay. 10 countries IN all. the imports
from the United States exceeded the
exports thereto. In the remaining 10
countries. Mexico. Salvador. Costa Rica,
Cuba. Brazil. Chile, Colombia. Ecuador.
Peru. and Venezuela. the exports to the
United States exceeded The imports
therefrom. In Guatemala. Honduras,
Nicaragua. Costa Rica. Panama. Cuba.
the Dominican Republic. and Haiti. the
imports from the United States repre-
scented more than one-half OF all thu
imports into the countries. III Mexico
b imports from the United States
amounted to nearly one-haif-49.7 per
GEM of the whole The 10 countries LAST
named. taken together. took from the
United States 52.6 per cent OF their to-
tai imports. from the United Kingdom
Us per cent. from Germany 10 per
cent. and from France. 7.2 per cent. The
same countries exported to the United
States us per cent Of their total for
eign exports. to the United Kingdom
Ill per cent, to Germany 10 per cent,
and to France 3.6 per cent. In only two
of the 10 countries named did the Uni
ted States fail to al first in both inn
ports and exports; in Guatemala the
exports to Germany represented 52.9 per
cent of the total, to the United States
27.2 per cent. and in Haiti the exports
to both France and Germany exceeded
those to the United States. In Honduras
the proportion of exports to the United
States was 1913 per cent of the whole,
in Panama S6.3 per cent, and in Cuba
1873 per cent.
AA> AC VIZ OttA AiiAS ~ q
the position of the United States was
by no means so advantageous. OF the
totals for these countries tha United
States supplied 16.25 per cent OF the inn
ports. the United. Kingdom 27.73 per
cent. Germany 1886 per cent, and
France S.68 per cent. the United States
took of their exports IL. 65 per cent. the
United Kingdom 24.09 per cent. Ger
many 1873 per cent. and France 9.S7
per cent.
1t can easily be seen. therefore. that
the position of the United States as
the leading country in Latin American
trade is u to its commanding position
in the 10 nearby republics. and that in
South America it is far behind the UNI
ted Kingdom in both imports and ex-
ports, and behind Germany in the inn
ports. But eve in South America the
trade OF the United States is unevenly
distributed as compared with the trade
of the European countries. 1t leads la
the imports of Venezuela, 1875 per cent
of the total. as compared to the United
Kingdom 23.S per cent. 1t leads also
in Colombia 1851 per cent. to United
Kingdom 20.4 per cent, and in Peru. 2S.S
per cent. to United Kingdom 26.2 per
cent. On the contrary. in Argentina.
Bolivia, Brazil. Chile, and Uruguay. thss
United States falls below both the
United Kingdom and Germany; In
Parkway it Is below France as well:
in Ecuador. 1t Is second to III United
Kingdom.
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