New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1917-09-26
BOOM in EXPORTS
TO south AMERICA
i. s. Increases Trade Twice and
0ne-Half

| America in the fiscal year 1917 were
| over two and one-half times as much
! in value as in 1915, having been in
| exact terms $3.50, 559,45S against $685.
| 423,957 in 1915. To Argentina alone
| the exports in 1917 were $50, 82,S84
| against s32, in 1915; to Brazil
| s56,761,252 against $25,629,555 in
| 1915; to Uruguay $14,292,135 against
| s5,171,3 1928; to Chile $44,573,185 against
$11,377,18 to Peru $18,885, TIA
against $5,S73 Ala, and to Colombia
| s14,906,7s6 against s6,675, 564 in 1915.
Imports into the United States from
South America in 1917 were more
| than double those Of 1915, totaling
$542,212,s2o for the fiscal year 1917
against s261,4S9,563 in 1915. The
greatest increase was from Chile, be-
ing $113, 7S9, 100 in the fiscal year 1917
against s27,6s9,78o in 1915; from Ar
gentina $152,612,411 against s73,776,-
258 in 1915; from Brazil $751;, 63S,245
! against $99,17S,727; from Peru $780,
379,O16 against $12,596,64S and from
Uruguay $3O,4O6,532 in the fiscal year
1917 against $10,492, $40 in 1915.
Argentina for the first time heads
the fiscal year 1917 were $685. 12, all
exporting to the United States. Our
total imports from that country in
he fiscal year 1917 were $152,612,41 AL
against $151,63S,245 from Brazil Up
to 1917 Brazil continuously stood at
the head of South American countries
exporting to the United States, but the
imports from Argentina show in the
fiscal year 1917 an increase of $40
100000. while those from Brazil in
creased but s19,000,000. Imports
from Argentina increased in the dec
ade ending with 1917 from $16,715,-
325 in 1907 to $152,612,411 in 1917,
while those from Brazil increasef
from $97,ss1,15s in 1907 to $151~.
63S,245 in the fiscal year 1917.
Argentina is no longer a factor in
the United States meat supply, the
total imports of fresh beef from Ar
gentina, which amounted to 130,680,-
021 pounds in the fiscal year 1915 and
52,6SO,436 pounds in 1916, were but
2,295,690 pounds in the fiscal year
1917.
Argentina's advance to the head of
the list of South American countries
exporting to the United States is due
chiefly to the great demand made
upon her for wool. In view of the
difficulty of obtaining wool from the
countries and colonies controlled by
Great Britain. The value of wool
imports from Argentina in the fiscal
year 1917 was $7S,000,000 against
$1S,O0O,OOO in 1915.
Trade Of the United States with
Latin America has practically doubled
since 1915 showing for the fiscal
year 1917 a grand total of $1,554, OOO,-
900 against $810,OOO,OOO in 1915. The
exports to Latin America more than
doubled in that period, while the i'm
ports show an increase of something
over SO per cent. The exports to all
Latin American countries in the fis-
cal year 1917 were $592,00O,OO0
against $252,OOO,O0O in 1915, and the
imports from all Latin American
Countries $962,OOO,00O in 1917 against
$558,000,000 in 1915. For the ten
year period ending with the fiscal
year 1917 exports to Latin America
show an increase from $3.50, 0OO,OOO to
$592,000,0O0, and the imports an in
crease from 1896, 100000 to $962,O00,-
900 in the fiscal year 1917, the total
for 1917 being the highest on record
both as to imports and exports.
Argentina's exports in 1917 show
marked fall off when compared with
in the first seven months Of the year
1917 amounted to only $4,000 tons
against 1857, 600 in the corresponding
period of last year; corn 668, 900 tons
against 100000, and linseed to 3d.
600 tons against $4,000 in the same
period of last year. This is made up
however, in some degree by the in
crease in exports of frozen beef, which
amounted to 2,935,000 quarters in the
seven months of 1917 against 2,465,-
900 in the same months of the preced-
ing year. Wool shipments also are
making their highest record and at
phenomenally high prices.
Argentine railways are proposing a
large advance in freight rates, averag-
ing about 20 per cent. rate which
they propose to put into effect in
December of the current year. This
large advance proposed is based upon
the increased cost of fuel, labor, con-
struction and repairs. The PROPOSE
ton for sweeping advance of % per
cent is under consideration by the
Director-General of Railways. who has
| requested the railways to state their
| reasons for the proposed large adj
| vance.
Chile is supplying to the United
! States enormous increases in copper,
while Bolivia is entering an entirely
new field in sending her tin ore. I'm
ports of copper into the United States
| from Chile in the fiscal year which
! ended with June 1917 amounted to
1873, 100000 pounds of pig copper
against 100000 in 1916 and "a ,OO0,-
| 900 pounds in 1915. Imports of tin
ore from Bolivia amount to nearly
$3,O0O,OOO in 1917 against practically
! nothing in preceding years.
FIRING IN STREETS