The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-11-14
TRADE BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES AND SOUTH AMERICA,

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 ss Trade between the United States and South America is three times as great as in the year before the war. A compilation by The National City Bank of New York shows that the total exports to that continent in the eight months ending with August (the latest month for which figures are available) aggregated $1SS, 100000 against 65,000,000 in the same rnonthsA of 1914; and the imports from South America were $433, 3,000,000 against $157 900, 900 in the same months of 1914. Thus the total trade with that continent in the eight months of 1917 was $620.000,0 900 $222,0OO,00O in the corresponding months of 1914.
 To Argentina, Chile and Peru the exports have more than trebled; and to Uruguay quadrupled; while to Bra zil, Colombia, Ecuador and Venezuela the exports are nearly three times as great as in 1914. To Argentina the total for the eight months ending with August, 1917, is s62,256,O00 against $19, ,649,000 in the same months of 1914; to Brazil $40,157, 1000 against &15.97a,000; to Chile $32,971 ,00O against 10,s00,00o in the correspond ing months of 1914.
 Imports from each of the South American countries show large in creases, but especially those from Argentina, Uruguay, Chile and Peru. From Argentina the imports of the eight months of the current year are $133, ,000 against $40,752,000 in the same months of 1914; from Chile $96,- 626,000 against $15,954, 1000; from Uruguay s28,3ss.0o0 against $S.522,- 900; and from Brazil s1o6, 1885, ,00o against s62,633,0O0 in the correspond ing months of 1914.
 This increase continues down to the very latest moment for which figures available, the August 1917 exports to all South America having been $24,- ,s8S.Q00 against s5,312,000 in August 191 4, and the imports from that con- tinent in August of the current year $49, ,836,000 against $15,096 ,000 in August of 1914.
 The share which theN United States Is now supplying of the trade of South America is very much greater than before the war. The banks compi1a- ton shows that merchandise from the United States formed about 30 per cent of the imports of all South America in. 1916, while in 1913 we supplied but 15 per cent. of the total imports of that continent. The United States took in the calendar year 1916 approximately 30 per cent. of the exports of South America, and in 1913 but IT per cent.
 The principal articles in which the growth occurs are, on the import side, wool, hides, copper, nitrate, India rubbef, quebracho, coffee, cacao. O1 wool. our imports from all South America in the eight months ending with August, 1917, amounted to s98,- 0e0.o value against only $11, 900, 900 in the same months of 1914; hides $64, 100000 in 1917 against s21, oo0,- { coo in the same months of 1914: cop- per $58 100000 against 3e,0o0,0o in the corresponding months of 1914; quebracho $e,0oo, 900 against s2,500,- GOO, and nitrate s3e,O00, 900 against 311, ,oo0, ,000 in the corresponding months of 1914, Tn fresh meats the imports from South America have fallen off very greatly from approxi- rnatsly 1000. 900 in the full year 1914 to . quarter of a million in the eight months ending with August 1917, even ct the greatly increased prices
 Manufactures form over 90 per cent.