The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-10-02

pared with the same period in 1914, amounted to 503,995 centals of 100 pounds. The United States exported to the four countries mentioned during this period in 1915 as much as 3,353.6S centals, as compared with 204,177 cental during Jan uary to May, 1914. an increase of 3,149, 46l centals. or six times the increase in the export of cotton from the United King dom.
 ''rhe above figures for the United King dom are taken from the official customs returns; those for the United States have been carefully compiled by the war trade department from the manifests of those vessels which actually arrived with cargo from the United States in Scandinavian and Dutch ports during the five months, February to June, 1915, as compared with five-twelfths of the record exports rom the United States to those countries in the year ended June 90, 1914. It has been necessary to adopt this method, as the l Monthly Summary of Foreign com | merce,' issued by the United States gov | ernment gives very few details with re- gard to American trade with those coun- tries It is evident that some shipments
 must have taken place from the United States to Scandinavia and the Neither l lands which could not come within the l scope of even the most circumstantial compilation of statistics drawn up from | the manfests of examined ships alone, and I would, therefore, lay particular stress on the fact that the figures thus obtained by the war trade department
 are necessarily advertisements of total amounts actually shipped. But even from
 the figures thus obtained it is possible to show conclusively how much greater the increases in the American exports | to Scandinavian countries and the Meth
 erlands have been than those of Great I p,.it ai,, trip ha fit.ct
 this year, not only in the case of cotton
 but in that of almost every other i'm
 portant commodity
 1 Rubber
 "Re-exports of rubber from the United l Kingdom to Scandinavia and the Neither
 lands declined from 17,727 centals of 1ot pounds in January-May. 1914, to 16.693 cen
 tals in January-May. 1915; on the other 1 hand exports of rubber from the United
 States to the same destinations increased l from 1879 centals to 5040 centals. Larger l re-eXports of rubber to the United States 1 from this country have, indeed. taken l place, but all other re-exports of rubber | Fave declined during this period.
 l 'It will therefore, be seen that this
 country has actually been supplying more l rubber to the United States at the ex- l pense of other neutrals while American | exporters have taken advantage of this 1 u Sulp titltdStu QudutitiSS Ci i"p'Si U | Scandinavia and the Netherlands.
 Tn the case of lubricating oils. tht
 increase of United Kingdom exports tc l Scandinavia and Holland was 70S,37o gal l Ions; the increase of the United States ex- l ports during the same five months was
 9 S57,5sS gallons. being five times as great
 as the British increase.
 1 "The increase in the re-exports or un' I nanufactured tobacco from the Uniteo 1 Kingdom to the same countries and over 1 the same period was 2,9S7, PA pounds; the l corresponding United States increase was i, 6,0S1,s ,s48 pounds. The British increase is mainly duo to the diversion of tobaccc grown In the British dominions from con l tinental to United Kingdom ports. The re- ] exports of manufactured tobacco from l the United Kingdom have actually de- l olined, while exports of this commodity l from the United States to Scandinavia
 and the Netherlands have hitherto been
 relatively insignificant. It is, therefore | altogether improbable that the United
 States can have lost trade in tobacco in consequence of the measures taken by
 his majesty's government.
 Cocoa Trade
 Limited Kingdom re-exports of cocoa have risen from 2.976,l43 pounds in Jan | uary-May. 1914, to 14,50to13 pounds ir ] January May, 1915, an increase in round 1 l United States for the same months have l risen from 12,300 pounds in 1914 to 16016,-
 vvJ pounds in 1915 an increase of 100000 These figures speak for themselves.
 "In the first five months of 1914 the , United Kingdom re-exports of coffee to | the same countries amounted to so, 4Ol l hundreG-weight and the exports from
 the United States to 1876 hundredweight
 "In the corresponding five months | of 1915 the United Kingdom re-exports 1 were 263,4SS hundredweight while the 1 imports from the United States were l 2S5,760 hundredweight, showing thai
 the United States exports, which were formerly much less, are now greater 1 than those of the United Kingdom. 1 'In the case of rice the increased l re-export from the United Kingdom which amounted to 193.45S hundred- weight for the period under review was entirely due to the diversion tc
 the United Kingdom ports of the large trade in Indian rice formerly carried i on through Hamburg and other conti. rental ports. The exports from ths United States have increased from 26: hundredweight in January-May, 1914 to ?7,S00 hundredweight in January. May, 1915, an increase of 27.53S hun. diedweight
 ''The United Kingdom increase in tn, export of wheat flour to Scandinavia and The Netherlands during January May 1915, compared with 1914 Wal