The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-01-05
UNITED STATES MAKES
WORLDS HIGH RECORD
IN EXPLOITATION

worlds t'high record in the expor-
tation Of manufactures. The total
value OF manufactures exported from
this country in the year just ended IS
greater than the value of manu1ac-
lures exported from any other couh-
try In any year.
A compilation by the Foreign Trade
Department Of the National CITY bahh
OF New York shows that our own eA-
ports Of manufa ctures in 1910 eA
ceeded O0,00Os0o0. while the nlgh.
est export record ever maze. Dy Glea.
Britain formerly the WORLDS larsese
ernnrter Of manufactures, was ST.
ooo. OOO, 900 1913, the year immed date
II nreceding the war, Germany ST.
Gao. OO0. OOO.' and France $772,0OO,0OO.
Prior to the war the United States
held third rank among the nations
ii, expectation Of manufactures, those
from Great Britain in 1913 being as
above indicated $2,012,000, zoo, Ger
many $751; 900, 900, United states
s1.185. 100000 and France $772,0OO,-
4 900. these four countries, Great Brit
Ain. Germany, United States and
trance, supplying about two thirds or
ne s8 600, 100000 worth Of manufac-
lures entering international trade In
1913. sfsf
I \ Even prior to the war our own
share iii the worlds expectation or
/ manufactures was gaining more rap
idly than those Of the other great ex-
porters OF manufacturers, Great Brit
aims exports of manufactures grew
from S1,14O, 600, 900 in 1903 to 81, 012;-
600, 900 in 1913, an increase Of sop-
proximately II per cent; those or
Germany from $7s4,oo0.00o in. 1903 to
81, 681, 200, 200 in 1913, an increase OF
lis per cent; those of France from
$470, 900, 900 in 1908 to $772,00O, 600
in 1913, an increase Of s. per cent;
while those of the United States grew
from 6S,O00,000 ins1so3 to $1,185,-
100000 in 1913, an increase OF l53
per cent.
1t ts, however, since the beginning
OF the war. that the United States
has made her great increase in the
expectation Of manufactures which
amounted in the calendar year 1914
to 1914, 100000, ia 1913 to $1.784,-
j 900, 900, and in 1916 will approx
mate $4,000, 100000 this estimate be-
fng based upon actual figures Of the
Department Of Commerce for ten
months ending with October, and the
figures OF the Port Of New York for
November and December. Our total
exports OF manufactures in 1916 are
more than three times as much as an
1914 and so per cent. greater than in
1915.
The growth in the exports of manu-
features since the beginning of the
war is Of course due in a considerable
degree to the demands for strictly war
material. explosives alone being for
1916 approximately $675,o00,000,
brass tubes for the manufacture of
shells $225, 00O,0o0; while in many
other articles such as automobiles and
various articles of iron and steel
there Is also large increase, though
just what proportion Of the growth is
due to the demands OF the war can
only be estimated. OF iron and steel
manufactureslo of all kinds the exports
Of the full year show a total of ap-
.proximately $90O,000,0oO against
5000, 100000 in 1914.
ended demonstrate the ability Of the
manufactures of the United States to
supply a much larger proportion of
the manufactures entering world con-
sumption than they have in the past
since the total value of the manufac-
lures entering international trade in
normal years as against approximate
f " is, per cent. which we supplied in
the year Immediately preceding the
war.
Prior to the war, the, percentage
which manufactures formed of the
domestic exports of Great Britain
was 70 per cent, Germany 81 per
cent; France, So per cent; and OF
the United States AZ per cent. Man.
ufactures formed 4 5 per cent. of our
domestic exports in 1880; 81 per cent
in 1890; 35 per cent. 1900; 45 per
cent in 1910; 40 per cent In 1913; 81
per cent in 1915 and approximately
Sc per cent in 1915.