Bisbee daily review., 1915-10-03

.OOO hese figures speak for them
selves.
In the first five months Of 1914
the Unit6d Kingdom re-exports of cof-
fee to the same countries amounted
to S0,407 hundred weight, and to the
exports from the United States to
1876 hundred weight In the CORE
spending five months of 1915 the
United Kingdom re-exported goods
were 1853 ass bundled weight while
the imports from the United States
were 285,76O hundred weight. showing
that the United States exports which
We're formerly much less are now
greater than those of the United King
dom.
"In the case of rice, the increased
re-eXport from the United Kingdom.
which amounted to 193,45S hundred
weight for the period under review
was entirely due to the diversion to
the United Kingdom ports of the large
trade in Indian rice formerly carried
on through Hamburg and other CONT.
mental ports. The exports from the
United States have increased from
262 hundred weight in January ?May.
1914, to 279O0 hundred weight I'm Jan
uary-May, 1915, an increase Of 27.53s
hundred weight
The United Kingdom increase in
the export of wheat flour to Scandi-
navia and the Netherlands durign Jan.
uary-May 1915. compared with 1914.
was 47O45 hundred weight. tine Unit.
ed States increase was 2.555.593 hun.
dred weight for the same period.
81 could point to many other in
stances Of similar proportionate in
creases in the exports of the United
States to Scandinavia and the Neither
lands as compared with exports to the
same countries from the United King
dom during the last five months. In
respect to the great majority of arti-
cles for which figures Of United states
trade can be given the increases in
this trade are greater. and in some
cases very considerably greater. than
the increase in the United Kingdom
trade
In many cases increases in United
Kingdom re-eXports are due to the
fact that the products of British.In.
dian and colonial products which for
merly went direct to continental
ports, such as Hamburg, Rotterdam or
| Copenhagen. are now sent tn the
United Kingdom and thence distribu-
ted to old customers in Scandinavia
and the Netherlands Among such
may be mentioned pepper, cinnamon
and other spices largely the product
of the British East India), Indian tea
palm kernels tmainly from British
West Africa. and copra (mainly from
the straits settlements and Australia
The direct trade of the British over
seas dominions with the port of Ham
burg alone is very great in normal
times
In many instances our re-export
trade for the first five months of this
year shows a large decline.
Everything i'm the statistics have
quoted tends to show that the mercan
tile community Of the United States
mas made profits proportionateIy
equal to or greater than those of the
mercantile community of Great Brit.
ain in respect to all those demands
which have inevitably arisen in Scan
dinavia and the Netherlands. as n
consequence of the closing of German
ports. The total volume of the trade
OF the United States with these cou.
tries has increased 300 per cent as
your eXcellency will see from the ac-
companying table, taken from the
United States official monthly sun.
mary of foreign commerce. which
shows the comparative value of the
total exports of the United States TO
scandinavian countries and the Meth.
)erlands during the first five months
OF 1914 and 1915. The value of the
total increase in those exports duripe
this period amounted TO S145.658. OOO.
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