The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1917-12-02
SOUTH AMERICA
TRADE BOOMING
War Increases Traffic to-
Neighboring Continent,
Figures Show.
THREE TINES GROWN
Trade Tripled Since First
Shot in Struggle With
Germany.

New York. Trade between the
United States and South America il
three times an great as in the year
before the war. The total exports to
that continent in the eight months
ending with August (the latest month
Tor which figures are avnilable) ag-
gregated $lss.O00.OOO. against $4,000.
900 in the same months OF 1914. and
the imports from South America were
$433.0O0.00O. against $751;, 100000 in the
same months of 1914. Thus the total
trade with that continent in the eight
months Of 1917 was $500, 900. 900 against
$222.OOO.O0O In the corresponding
months OF 1914.
To Argentina. Chile and Peru the ex-
ports have more than trebled, and to
Uruguay quadrupled: while to Brazil,
Colombia. Ecuador and Venezuela the
exports are nearly three times as great
a. in 1914. To Argentina the total
for the eight months ending with Au-
gust 1917, is $62.256.o00 against 49,
$4,000 in the same months of 1914:
to Brazil. $4O.157, 900, against $15,973,-
90: to Chile. 1921. 900, against 49,
100000 in the corresponding months Of
1914.
lncrsase in imports.
Imports from each Of the South
American countries show large in
creases, but especially from Argentina.
Uruguay. Chile and Peru. From Ar
gentina the imports of the eight
months Of the current year are S133.-
$4,000. against $4O.752.0 900 in the same
months Of 1914; from Chile. $s6.626 900,
against $l5.954.0OO: from Uruguay,
$2s.2ss,00o. against 1882 900, and from
Brazil. $lO6.335,0OO. against $62,633. 900
In the corresponding months of 1914.
This increase continues down to the
latest moment for which figures are
available the August. 1917. exports to
all South America having been $24.-
$4,000, against $5.312.O0O in August.
1914, and the imports from that con-
tinent In August of the current year.
$49, ,OO0, against $15.O96,O in Au-
gust Of 1914.
The share which the United States
Is now supplying of the trade of South
America is very much greater than be-
fore the war. The banks compilation
shows that merchandise. from the
United States formed about 80 per
cent of the imports OF all South Amer
lea On 1876 while. in 1919 wer'supplied
but Is per cent OF the total imports
Of that continent. The United States
took in the calendar year 1916 approx
mately 80 per cent of the exports OF
South America and in 1913 but II per
cent
Trade Of Many Kinds.
Manufactures from over 90 per cent
of our exports to South America and in
practically all of these the increase Is
strongly marked. OF cotton cloths,
for example, the exports to all South
America in the eight months Of 1917
amounted to about $4,000, 900 in value,
against about 100000 in the CORE
spending months of 1914 automobiles,
approximately $4,000 900, against about
100000 in the same months of 1914:
coal. 100000. against about $1,000
900 in the corresponding months of
1914: tinplate. approximately IS 200. 900,
against less than 100000 in the same
months of 1914; refined sugar little
over 100000 900. against approx
mately 100000 worth in the corre-
spending months of 1914, while iron
and steel manufactures of all kinds
show large increases.