New Britain herald., 1917-06-28
EXPORTS ID RUSSIA
 TAKE VAST STRIDES
More in Past Three Years Than in
 50 Years Preceding

New York, June 2s.-Exports from
 the United States to Russia in the first three years of the war will aggregate nearly twice as much as in the 50 years preceding the war. A compila- ton by the National City bank of New York shows that the total exports to Russia in the first three years of the war will aggregate nearly $1.0OO,000,- 900, while the aggregate of the 50 years preceding the war was but lit- tie over $5o0.ooo.ooo.
 To be more closely accurate, the \ United States government figures of the exports to Russia in the fiscal year 1915, the first year of the war. were $61,00O, ,O0O, in 1916 $314,O0O.- 900, and in the fiscal year 1917. which ends with the present month. will approximate $665,0o0,000. this estimate for 1917 being based upon the government figures for the first ten months of the fiscal year. This would bring the total for the three fiscal years to approximately $950.- O0O, ,0O0, suggesting total of nearly or quite billion dollars for the full three years of war, while total domes- tic export to Russia in the fifty years before the war was about $675.000,- 900.
 War materials form, Of course, the bulk of the export to Russia in the period since the beginning of hos tilities, though railway material is also an important factor in the grand total. Gunpowder. of which the ex- ports to that country prior to the war were negligible, amounted to about
 $57, 100000 in 1916, and while the government figures do not show the
 distribution of the gunpowder e1
 ported in 1917. they do show total in the 6rst nine months of the year two and . half times as great as in, 1916. Firearms to Russia in 1916 amounted to about $6,0OO.0OO and the United States government figures for the first nine months of the fiscal year 1917 show a total export of firearms six times as great as in the same
 period of 1916. Barbed wire to Russia in 1916 showed total of 13,O0O,O and the government figures of ex- ports of barbed wire in 1917 are 90 per cent. greater than in 1916.
 Railway cars to Russia in 1916 amounted to over SIS, ,OO0. 900. locomo- tives about $12,OO0, 900, and steel rails and other track material about 100000, though the figures for 1917 are not yet available. Metal working machinery, of which the to- tai to Russia before the war was a little more than $1.0O0,O00, was in 1915 $2,600.000, and in 1916 over 112.- O00.O 900. Automobil which were Of negligible value before the war, amounted to over $12.O00,0o0 in 1915
 and approximately $2o.ooo,0oo in 1916 Copper amounted to $3.000,000 in 1915 and $9,00O,000 in 1916 while the t a G.. kr>~ Exo year 1917 are nearly three times as much in value as in 1916, suggesting that, the total to Russia has probably increased.
 In the requirements of peace, which of course formed the chief exports to Russia before the war, there is marked decline. Agricultural imple- ments. which formed about $7,0OO,l 900 of exports to Russia in the year before the war will apparently amount to less than $500.0O in the year 1917, and binder twine, which amounted to $2,5o0,00o the year before the war, l Is now but about $5O0.00O. Sewing machines and typewriters, which az 1 gregated about $2.50O.o00 in the year 1 before the war, now aggregate but
 about $25O.000.
 One striking fact in connection | WlIn L0lS euOIIlAOuS SApOII u 1tuSSlA A0 i found in the great distance which the I merchandise travels to reach it's des- l tination. the distance wich it was car ] ried being more than half way round 1 the world. Of the $61, 100000 worth ! of merchandise exported to Russia in I 1915, $23,0OO,000 worth went via Vla- divostok and of the $314,00O.000 in l 1916 $13O,0O0,000 was billed to Asi-
 atic Russia, though the proportion is not now quite as great, since the open ing of Russia's new port of Kola on the Arctic frontage now gives her an all-the-year-round open port through I which she can receive. much of the merchandise which was necessarily sent via vladivostok in winter in for mer years.
 Total imports of Russia in the cal l endar year 1916 were $1,416.00O,O0O.
 exports $296,O0O, 900. Of the imports $s27, 7,000, ,o00 worth was by European Frontiers and $489, 900, 00O by Asiatic Frontiers. Of the exports $242.OOO.- 900 was by European Frontiers, and
 4,OO0, 900 by Asiatic Frontiers.
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