The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-09-13
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RUSSIAN COMMERCE.

Recent events in Russia lend inter est to a statement compiled by The National City Bank of New YorK' showing the trade of Russia with the United States. and with her nearer neighbors in Europe. The hgures s1ow that despite the rapid growth or cur trade with Russia prior to the war we supplied less than 10 per cent or her imports, and took but about per cent. of her exports or Russian err ports in 1913, aggregating $760,0o0,- 600. over one-thfrd went to Germany, and of her imports of that year, ag- grekating s6S7 7.0o0, 900. practically one half were drawn from Germany. Great Britain ranked next to Ger many as a market for Russian mer-. chandise and as source of her inn ports, while the Netherlands held third rank in her export trade, ard China third rank in the countries supplying her imports. The United States rank ed fourth in the countries from which Russian imports were drawn in 1913, and fourteenth in the list of countries to which the exports were sent. Rus sfan sofficiai figures show that rner- chandise from the United States form ed 8 per cent of her imports in 1911, per cent. in 1912 and 6 per cent. in 1915.
 The total exports from the United States to Russia have grown rom $1O,ooO 900 in the fiscal year lsoV to SIs,oeo, GOO in 1910, $23,ooo, Oo0 in 1912. as2s, ,eeo 900 in. 1913 and $Sl.- oo0.oo0. in the fiscal year 1914. all or which preceded the beginning of the war. In 1915 the exports to Russia Jumped to s61,0oo,ooo. fn,1s1s, s310,- OoO. GOO, and in the fiscal year 1917 just ended 5S,584. 900. This in- crease since 1914, while, largely war material. includes also railway sup pifes and material automobiles; metal working Tf1acIfrefy, leather and man aifactures thereof, copper, steel rails, railway cars, wire and miscellaneous manufactures of iron and steel
 The imports from Russia since the beeinnfng of the WET have fallen to ar, extremely low point. having been j in 1918, the year preceding the war s2s. 900. GOO. in 1914. $23,320,0o in 1915 $s,394,00o. in 1916 $5,917,o00 and in-1s17 $s.4s4.ooo.
 AEricultufal implements, binder twine, manufactures of iron and steel, machinery. copper, railway material and supplies, automobiles, boots ana shoes and material for their manu- fracture, sewing machines, ypewrlters and raw cotton form normally the bulk of United States exports to Rus sia. and hides and skins. wool hbers and certain chemicals the bulk of the imports therefrom. Calf skins inn ported from Russia alone amounted in 1913 to SIC. 100000 in value, cattle hides over s4,o00, 900 horse hides $2,- 100000. sheep skins and goat skins each about s1, 800, 900, carpet wool s3.bOo. ooe, fax and hemp s1,00Q,000, india rubber refuse for remanufac- ture over a half million. Hcorice root nearly a half million, and fusel oil and gIycerine about a quarter of million each.
 Exports to Russia in 1913 included agricultural implements alone $S,- s50,o0o, raw cotton $4, 300 900, binder twine s1,450,000, metal working ma chinery $1.0s1.o00, mining machinery . s464,000, sewing machines. 767,Oeo, typewriters ssss.00 and iron and steel nnaaufactures as a whole ap- proximately s6.oo0, o0o.
 Russian official reports show total imports in 1918 amounting to $6s7,- 600 900. of which s326, 6,0oo,ooe were from Germany, $S6,00o, 900 from the United Kingdom, SAP, 100000 from [ China. SAC. .0OO, ,0o0 from the United X States, s2s,0O0,o00 from France, $22,- 100000 from Persia, S1S,000,o ,ooo from Austria Hungary. $17,000.oOO 4 from the East Indies, $9,000,000 from Turkey, $s.0oo. 900 from Sweden. and s5,000,oo0 from Norway. The exports from Russia in 1913 were $760.o00,- GOO. of which s227.oOo. 900 went te Germany, s154,O00.0o0 to the United Kingdom, sss.o0o,ooo to the Neither lands, s5o. 900. .ooo to France, ss7 ,ooo.- GOO to Italy. ss3.ooo.ooo to Austria Hungary, ss2. .ooo, 900 to Belgium and s7.O0o. 900 to the United States.