The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-01-24
B|G IMPROVEMENT IN FOREIGN TRADE Department of Commerce
 Submits Report SALE OF FOODSTUFFS During November Was Unusually Large-Exports in That Month
 Doubled Those of
 August
SALE OF FOoDsTUFFs

Washington. January s2.--MarlSed
 improvement in the foreign trade of
 the United States Is reflected In latest
 reports to the department of commerce,
 an official summary of which. issued
 today, follows:
 Sales of foodstuffs and certain lines
 of manufactures have been unusually
 large in November. the last period for
 which detailed information Is at hand.
 In that month exports aggregated
 $20e, 900. 900, or double the total for August, last, when by reason Of the outbread of war, our foreign trade fell to the lowest level reached in many years In December there was further improvement, the months exports be- 1 ing valued at s24s. s.0oo.ooo compared
 with $2ss,ooo,ooo in December. 1913, and within s4.0o0,ooo of the high record
 we established in December. 1919. An analysis of the trade figures pub lished in the summary of foreign com merce shows that while American cot ton, mineral oils, naval stores, lumber and agricultural implements arc in less demand abroad than in former years, there is a greater demand in foreign countries for our breadstuffs, meats. sugar, clothing and other manufac- lures, especially in Europe. citation of a few of the larger factors in our foreign trade will illustrate more clear ly this fact
 Breadstuffs Exported
 "Of breadstuffs the November ex- ports exceeded in value $4O,000.0 900. or four times as much as in November, 1913; of commercial automobiles. the months exports aggregated $225,000,- 900, or 22 times the value exported in November, 1913; of eggs. $125,00o. 000. or three times as much: of sole leather, $325, 900, ,000, or eight times as much as in November year earlier; of metal working machinery and machine tools, nearly s2,000.0o0 or twice as much as year earlier; of cotton wearing ap- parel, s225,Oo0.O0o. or almost three times the value for November, 1913, of chemicals, drugs and dyes, $325,a00,- 900, or 50 per cent more than in No vember of the previous year; of cot ton manufactures, $550,00o,0OO, or 50 per cent above the figures of the pre- ceding November; of mems boots and shoes, S125, 5,000,000, an increase of so | per cent, and of cotton seed oil cake and meal $225, ,000,0 900, an increase of 50 per cent Of especial interest is the re- | markable growth in exports of refined sugar and woolen goods, the former in creasing from $177,O00 to $2.3s6, 900. and | the latter from s440000 to $3,04S,000 when November, 1913, Is compared with the corresponding month of last year. Striking Changes
 "Striking changes in the movement 1 of specified articles to given countries during November include a million dol l lars worth of corn to The Netherlands, | as against $4000 worth a year earlier. l large increases in wheat shipments to | the United Kingdom, Italy. Germany and France, in sums ranging from ST. 900, 900 down to s225, ,oo0. .0o0 an increase of $125, 5,000,000 in automobile sales to France, the months total being near | ly twice the amount shown in any complete fiscal year; doubling or | the exports of copper to the United | Kingdom, and an increase of 200 per l cent in sales of automobile tires to England Of metal working machinery 1 the November exports to the United Kingdom exceeded $1.000,000, or nine | times as much as year earlier; and those to France nearly trebled. The United Kingdom also took over $3,- 0O0.O worth of American sole leather. as against less than $300,000 worth in November, 1913, and Europe as a whole bought $SS6.000 worth of boots and shoes or four times as much as a year ago. British purchases of American beef exceeded $2,400,000 against less than S40,000 in November of the prior year."