The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-11-04
TRADE MESSENGERS
 GATHER IN AMERICA.

Washington, Nov. 4-More than 2O nations are represented by visitors to the United States who are now mak- ing their headquarters at the branch offices of the Bureau of Foreign ana Domestic Commerce, Department of Commerce, and who are seeking new trade relations.
 Many of these men are members of foreign firms which are preparing to make purchases here. Others, are representatives of big commercial houses and offer unusual facilities for our manufacturers to establish agen- cies abroad. Their earnest efforts to meet us half way in producing a greater volume of trade with their respective countries are making easier the progress of American commerce in this year of opportunity.
 Some of these advance agents of business are not confninS their ef- forts to any one section of this coQn- try, for reports from the several branch offices of the Bureau furnish details oe tours which take in several of the principal commercial centers.
 Because of the foreign visitors flock ing here, the Bureau is dealing direct ly with buyers as well as sellers, and bringing both classes of business men together so effectively that there are results-purchases of American goods and the making of contracts for agen- cies in other countries
 One example serves to illustrate the character of these important develop
 tents.i An agent from abroad who has been lntrou uced to firms in the United States by one of the branch of fees of the Bureau represents both a, wealthy land owner in Central Ameri- ca. who is interested in numerous de ve1opment projects, and large com mission merchant who operates throughout Central America and down the west coast of South America, with an elaborate selling organizati on. Heretofore, the commission merchant has represented only the large Euro pean manufacturers, but they are shut out of the market by the war, and he has decided to pL sh American-goods.-
 Other interests represented are To- cated in Australia, Russia, Italy, Ar gentina, Spain, India. China, Canada, Japan, South Africa, Bulgaria, New Zealand, Brazil and several other countries. Each week during the present fall has added to the mum Der.
 There is wide variety in the classes of goods sought, including machinery, leather, clothing, the numerous lines making up the stock of a department store. textile products of all sorts, tools and many other American man ufactures. Two visitors from Russia have nearly completed the organiza- tion of a cooperative sales agency for prom oting Russian interests. Their efforts were materially assisted by the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce At. one of the offices, a meeting to launch the project was at tended by 50 manufa cturers.
 TE~e visit of the Bulgarian represen- tatives Hast summer is an important incident in foreign trade development, as that country has rarely ever made active i canvass for American goods.
 In all the negotiations that have been conducted and in those now in progress, the Bureau has earnestly extended it's cooperation. Its intro auctions, the agents report, have fla cilitated the transaction of business, because of the great confidence shown by business men here in the foreign representatives so introduced.
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