The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-05-14
SOUTH AMERICA
 TRADE REPORTS

Argentina authorized $15,000,000 external loan, the proceeds to be em- ployed in the purchase of seed for agriculturists for the next harvest.
 Exports of cotton goods from the United States to South America show very large gains, the total for the eight months ending with February amounting to 112,000,000 yards against 5o.000.o00 yards in the same month of last year. and about 25,000,- 900 in the corresponding months of of the year preceding.
 Exports of tin plates from the Uni ted States to South America show very large gains, the quantity sent to Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay alone. in the eight months ending with Feb, ruary, amounting to 65,000,000 pounds against 4S.o00, 900 in the same months of last year, and about 1O,- 000, ,000 in the corresponding months of the yer preceding. s,.s; Reports from Brazil state that the government has under consideration the removal of the entire import duty on flour coming from the United States and Canada, and a termination l of negotiations which have been in progress for a special rate on flour from Argentina, of which the supply will be extremely small, owing to a
 shortage of the wheat crop in that country.
 Brazil is establishing a new indus | try in the exportation of meats, the quantity of frozen meat exported in l 1916 having amounted to 33,661 tons
 against 8,514 in 1915, and practically nothing in 1914. This new industry is being developed as result of ac- tivities of capital and management
 from the United States.
 Brazilian imports show gains in 1916 as compared with 1915 and 1914, amounting to 196,000,00O against $146,000,000 in 1916, and
 SITS, ,0O0 in 1914. They are, how ever, less than those of the prosper lous year of 1913. which amounted to
 $327, 100000. The exports of 1916
 are $268, 100000 against $258, 100000
 in 1915, and $226. 100000 in 1914.
 South America is now the chief re-
 liance of the United States for wool the quantity imported from that con ) tinent in the eight months ending
 with February having been about
 135, 100000 pounds out of the total Importation of 1s5,000,000, the quan- tity from Argentina alone amounting Ito about 112,ooo,o00 pounds. or prac. . tically two-thirds of the entire amount of wool received from foreign countries in that period.
 Bolivia is now for the first time sending her tin ore to the United States, the value of the ore imported from that country in eight months oi the present fiscal year amounting tc
 about $2,527,000. Formerly all Bo. livian ore was sent in the form o1 concentrates to Europe, but the es tablishment of tin smelling works in the United States has given to Bo livia a nearby market in the 1arges tin consuming country of the world Exports from the United States tt South America continue to increas despite the lack of shipping facilitie and high freight charges. The tota
 for the eight months ending witt t February 1917 was $161, ,000, %, against s111, 100000 in the sam months of 1916. and $52,000,o0o il 1915. The imports from South Ameri 900 in 1916, and $153,000,O00 in 1915 !. Late advices from Argentina stat that hides are not included in the em
 bargo placed upon exports from tha Q country and that the supply of hides upon which the United States ha :. been relying, from that country vii y probably continue to reach us. Sout n America has supplied about 150,O00 n 900 pounds out of the 241,000,0 l. pounds recorded in the import figure t thus far this year.
 Japan is seeking markets in Sout :. America for her cotton goods, silk, s teas, and other products, and has es e tablished a line of cargo steamer }. between Japan and the eastern coas n of South America, passing by wa A of Chinese ports; Singapore; Cap e Town, South Africa, and thenc ' across the South Atlantic to Buenc d Aires, Montevideo, and Rio Janeir,
 The return cargo is expected to |
 coffee, timber, India rubber, woo
 and foodstuffs.
 A large American flag, the gift