The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-08-19
EXPORTS FOR JUNE
GROW %$11O,OOO,OOO
Report Indicates Increase for
Year Over 1914 May Be
$1,000, 600, 900.
BIG SLUMP IN COTTON

WASHINGTON. Aug. 1S.-Remarkable
increases in the export trade Of the
United States will be shown by the
monthly summary OF foreign mmerce
for June. Dor to be published by the
Department of Commerce. The most
remarkable showing is in the increase
OF export trade for June. which amounts
TO $1,000 900 over the same period OF
last year. For tho fiscal year ending
June 80. 1915. the increase OF exports
over the previous fiscal ear amounted
TO about 1897. 900. 900.
IL he average increases shown for the
month OF June could be maintained for
the full calendar year, II would show
an increase in the export trade for the
year ending December 81. 1915, OF more
than a billion dollars.
The department made a statement to-
day from figures that Will be given In
the month summary for June. showing
the increases in the leading articles Of
exports in the order of their magnitude.
The statement shows that @ high
levels were touched during the closing
months OF the year, and though certain
classes show n decrease during the
year. nearly all OF them are now par
NltlIfliuk III lHt ktlltltl AN wv
ton. agricultural implements lumber and
IVA stores are the notable eN-
cept!ons."
The total domestic exports for the MS
cal year ended June 80. 1915, were
s2,7i6. 200. 900. as against S2.32e. zoe, 900
for the previous year. Exports for June.
1915. aggregated s264, 10000. compared
will 1854. 100, 900 for June. 1914. En-.
ports OF wheat n -four in the last fis-
cal year are shown to have been more
than three times as much as In the pre-
month of last year and exports of raw
cotton were only a little more than one
half.
In June exports Of wheat and -four
were $500, 900 more than in the same
month of Tasty ear and exports of raw
cotton Were $500. 900 less. Iron and
steel manufactured products exported in
the last fiscal year were S25 SOC, 600 less
than for the previous fiscal year. but fug
the month OF n last they amounted
to s3l 500. 900, az against SIS, $500, 900 for
June. 1914.
The expectations of meat and dairy
products increased about so per cent. In
the last fiscal year over the preceding
year, but in June, 1915, they were nearly
three times as much as for the same
month last year.
NJ uiiihlN SloWlHk was Iltut
In exports of leather. raw and manufac-
turcd. In June, 1915, more than three
times as much in value Of these products
was exported as for the corresponding
month of 1914. II for the fiscal year a
little more than twice as much was
sent abroad in 1915 as In 1914.
Exports of automobiles and parts
more than doubled in the last fiscal veal
and nearly six times as much was ex-
ported In June last as in the same month
for 1914.
The foreign demand for mules II the
last fiscal year o abroad animals
valued in the aggregate of sl2.700.O 900,
as against explorations for the previous
fiscal year q about $780, 600. The ex-
ports of mules for June were valued al
$4,000. goo and for June. 1914, rhe valus
Of this article of export was s3S.3O0.
The United States shipped abroad
thirty times as much refine sugar las
June as II did In the same month tn,
year before, n for the fiscal year tn,
expectation of 1915 was more han four
teen times as great as for the prevlou,
year.