New Britain herald., 1918-03-05
MANUFACTURING IS
 BIG ITEM IN TRADE
Two Thirds Increase in Raw Ma. terial Exported and Imported

New York. March 5.-Reports from Washington that the complete control of imports and exports just taken over by the government will give opportunity to determine the classes of manufacturing material and manu-
 factures to be imported and exported during the remainder of the war, lends interest to a study by The Ma
 tional City Bank of New York of the principal articles forming the manu- featuring material entering and leav- ing the United States. Manufacturing materials imported into and exported from the United States show in each
 case an increase of about thirds
 in total value since the beginning of
 the war. Manufacturing material inn
 ported in the fiscal year 1914, all of
 which preceded the war, aggregated
 $952, 100000, and in 1917 $1,585. .000,-
 900, an increase of 65 per cent while
 manufacturing material exported
 grew from s1,167. 100000 in 1914 to
 $1, 1924, ,000,0OO in 1917, also an in-
 crease of 65 per cent.
 These figures of the total value of manufacturing material exported and imported include not only the raw material, but the partly manufactured material intended for further use in manufacturing such as pig copper, pig tin, steel bars and billets, sole leather, etc, etc. In practically all of these articles for use in manufactur- ing, whether in the raw state or part ly manufactured there have been large increases both in imports and exports, though the growth in quan- 1 tity is not as great as that indicated llryt tl,o yoI, tically all cases, the price per unit of l quantity is now larger than prior to | the war.
 Principal Raw Imports.
 The principal raw materials ina l ported include India rubber, hides, l wool, cotton, silk, hemp, sisal, jute, nitrate of soda and leaf tobacco, and i the principal articles in a partly man ufactured state for further use in curing include copper pigs, tin in pigs and bars iron pigs and bars, lumber, wood pulp, and the veg etable oils. These with sundry minor articles of the same general character imported in 1914 were $952, Al, 900 in 1916 $1,305, ,6S3,000, and in 1917 S1, 4,990,000. India rubber shows q large increase, the quantity imported l pounds. and in 1917 ,33S million pounds, while the value increased rom T million dollars in 1914 to IS9 millions in 1917. Hides and skins aggregated 561 million pounds n 1914 and 700 millions in 1917. the value being 120 million dollars in -914 and 216 millions in 1917. Wool increased from PAS million pounds iii -914 to SIP millions in 1917. but the 1 -aIue shows a much larger increase portionately, having been in 1914 B million dollars. and in 1917 131 Raw cotton imported in 914 was 123 million pounds and in -917 147 millions, an increase of but bout 25 per cent in quantity, while he value increased more than 100 ter cent, having been in 1914 1s mil ion dollars and in 1917 40 millions 'i1k in 1914 amounted to 29 million pounds and in 1917 34 millions. the alue 98 million dollars in 1914 and 1 56 millions in 1917. Nitrate of soda, ised largely in the manufacture of Nplosives increased from 564,oOV ' cns in 1914 to 1,262.0 .0O0 in 1917' ana he value from IS million dollars III 914 to 44 millions n 1917. <
 Increase in Exports. V
 On the export side, the increase I 'ccurs chiefly in the partly hanuIac- I ured articles for further use m c Of the manufactur- no materials exported from the 2 rnI+ed States cotton is the only i'm n ortant article which goes out of the ountry in the natural state, all of he other important articles for manu- F acturing having passed through A