Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-06-16
UNITED STATES LEADS
NATIONS IN EXPORTING
AS Seller Of Manufactures in Other
- Lands, This Country Stood
4 Third Five Years Ago.

Lands, This Country Stood
az Third Five Years Ago.
NOW CONSIDERABLY IN LEAD
War Materials Made in United States
Run Into Tremendous Figures.
Enormous Shipments OF All Kinds
of Goods to Latin Countries.
40 II Is rather hard to realize, but the
fact Is that tho United States has sud
denly become the largest exporter of
manufactures. Prior TO the war &C
cording to a compilation by tho Ma
tional City Bank OF New York, this
country held third place among the
nations Of the world as an exporter of
: manufactured goods. being clearly out
ranked in this line by Great Britain
and Germany. With the opening OF
= of Ger1nany's export trade, the United
States took rank next to Great Brit
ain an exporter OF manufactures.
and with the enormous foreign demand
upon our factories we have now passed
at the head OF the list OF nations ex
porting all kinds of manufactured
goods to other lands.
THE FIGURES MADE
FIVE YEARS AGO
The worlds expectation of manufac-
lures IN 1913. the latest normal year
lin International trade. were. according
Ito the banks compilation. stated in
tai
- ,00o, 100000 of domestic manufac-
--@tures exported: Germany. :1,675. 100000;
United States. sl,099. 100000: France,
100000: Belgium. approximately
$400.0o0,00o: Austria Hungary. S375.-
100000: Italy, s275, Ooo. 900: Netherlands,
s25o.0000o0: Japan, SECS 600. 600; Switz-
erland, 100000 600; India, sl25.ooo.o0o;
Sweden. Slo0.o0o.0o0; Canada. $1,000.
ooo Russia. s70.00o.0oo. and Spain.
s50.ooo,o 600. all OF these figures being
in very round terms. Thus the grand
total OF manufactures entering inter
national trade in the year before the
war. was about $4,000. o0o. 0o0 of which
the United States supplied about one
eighth, or in round terms, 81, 600, 600, 600.
sE About 90 per cent Of the manufac-
. lures entering International trade in
,"-lal3 was the product OF countries now
notably Germany, Austria Hungary
Belgium and Russia. expectation OF
a. manufactures was suspended. and in
Tscpthers. notably France. italy and Meth
- erlands, the expectation was greatly
reduced. In still others. however.
: notably the United States. Canada and
japan, the production and expectation
OF manufactures greatly increased fol-
j. lowing tho war. In the case OF the
neutral countries OF Europe there was
little change, and the Official figures of
Great Britain show comparatively little
change though presumably they do not
include all OF the war material sent
. out OF that country by the government,
/, especially that going To- France.
COUNTRIES THAT HAVE
GAINED ny THE WAR
The chief countries which show a
marked increase in expectation of
manufactures during the war are the
United states, Canada and Japan. In
The case % the United States the in
crease has been especially in material
for the battle field and the use Of the
allied troops, but there has also been
large increase in exports Of our
manufactures to the neutral world.
Latin America. Asia. Oceania Africa
and certain countries OF Europe The
=. total value OF domestic manufactures
exported from the United States In the
fiscal year ending with June. 1914. ali
OF which preceded tho war, aggregated
sl,oee.o 600. including in this both
finished manufactures and those for
further use in manufacturing. In the
calendar year 1915 they totaled sI79i-
100000; in 1916, s3.537 900 600. and In
1917. H,clsoQ0:+Go, while Great Brit
aims total exports OF domestic manu-
features IN 1917 were but so,O30. 900 900.
or about onc-half those of the United
/, States in that year. with the central
powers. Russia and Belgium no longer
exporting manufactures, and France
S.. Italy and Netherlands greatly reducing
d, their exports, II IL estimated that the
total value OF manufactures entering
international trade vas but little more
than IS, o0o, 900, o0o Of which the United
States supplied nearly or quite one
half, her total exports in that wear
having been as above Indicated. So
olac00.ooo.
ENORMOUS GAINS no
THE NEUTRAL cor N'rRIt:x
or this enormous expectation Of
= manufactures Of the United states l.,
-l2li, practically four times as much as
= before the war and twice as much "a
p that OF Great Britain in 1917. more than
one fourth was destined for the battle
helds OF Europe. Explosives alone
e amounted 10 sf24.oOo,o 900: manufac-
lures Of brass, largely for production
OF shells. $4,000. 600; chemical which
were largely for the manufacture ot
explosives. sis3,0oo0nn: firearms. ss7.-
= 100000; wire. 100000, 900. and zinc
T. s4oooo.ooo The total OF iron and steel
manufactures OF all kinds export cd
from the Omitted States In 1917 was
:, S,235 1000 against 1891 100000 in
o. alsl5. Much OF the increase in manu-.
8 ..factures other than those for war pur.
poses went TO Latin America. Asia
Africa, Oceania and the neutral coun.
tries OF Europe 10 which tho United
.. States showed large gains in the OK.
ports OF 1917 compared with those a
the beginning 81 the war