Imperial Valley press., 1919-03-04
HOW BRITISH
EXPORT ORDER
AFFECTS u. 5.

Fxuorts from the United States to
Great Britain of the fifty articles
named in its recent British prohlbl-
ton order averaged in the years I'M
mediately preceding the war less than
/ per cent of our total exports ana
about one-half of per cent of the to-
tai British imports in the same pc
riod.
y compilation by the National City
Bank of New York shows, from the
official publications of the two gov
elnments, the value of every one of
the prohibited articles which the re-
spective governments considered of
sufficient importance to mention IN
their officially published trade reports
in each of the three years immedi-
ately preceding the war.
The figures of the United States
cover the fiscal years 1912-13-14;
those of Great Britain the calendar
years 19l1-I2-13 The officially pub
ished records of the respective gov
crnments show expectation from the
United States to Great Britain of less
than S20,000000 worth per year of
the various articles named on the Brit
ish prohibited list during the fiscal
years 1912-13-14, while the British
figures of importation from the Unit
ed States show only about $13,O00,-
900 worth of the articles named as
he annual average of the calendar
years l911-12-13.
This apparent discrepancy between
he United States figures of our eX-
ports to Great Britain and the Brit
sh figures of imports from the Unit
ID States, of the articles in Ques-
ton, is accounted for in part by the
fact that the British schedule of i'm
)orts from the United States fails to
include certain minor articles which
IRE enumerated b. the United States
rs exported to Great Britain; also
by the fact that the British figures
of imports only include the articles
actually unloaded from the importing
ship, while in some cases merchan-
disc from the United States consigned
% Great Britain may have passed on
0 some of it's colonies without being
nloaded in Great Britain; also by
he further fact that the British fig
res of imports omit to show the
merchandise imported for the gov
eminent, while United States con-
yjgnmants TO that country would show
III merchandise, in>luding that in
ended for the government. Still an
)tEcr cause for the discrepancy be-
wcen the United States figures and
those of Great Britain lies in the fact
hat the years covered by the two
,fficial reports differ, that of the
United States being the fiscal year
anding June 80, and that of Great
Britain the calendar year ending De-
,ember 81.
A still further cause for the dis
,repancy lies in the fact that many
f the fifty articles named in the pro-
hibited last are of such small i'm
oortance that neither of the govern
| nents in question mentions them in
! It's official list Of exports to the va
| 'ious countries of the world, or i'm
'orts from the various countries OF
| he world, including whatever small
alues there may be in the uninfor-
native grouping "all other" countries
| ~ articles.
"Mouth organs" for instance
which were mentioned in the British
list of prohibited articles, are not
| shown in either the export figures
| IF the United States or the import
| ieures of Great Britain; neither are
| nCps, slide rules for engineers, stere-
| scopes, spectacles and glasses, wiring
ers and mangles, vacuum cleaners
mats, baths Of metal or fatty acids
| Certain articles mentioned by the
| United States as exported to Great
| Britain are not shown by the British
! figures as imported from the United
| States, being presumably included I'M
der the general heading of "all other
| articles" or "all other countries" OF
| the fifty articles included in the Brit
J ish prohibited list, only about twen-
| ty-five are considered of sufficient
| Importance to be included by the
United States in its list of articles
| exported, while only about 20 are
| named by the British government in
their list of articles imported. In
most Of the articles In which the
movement by countries is shown, the
| iguIes of Great Britain are slightly
less than those of the United States
| iue presumably to causes above eX-
| planned.
The most important of the prohib-
tied articles as measured by the value
| Of cur exports thereof to Great Brit
ain are apparently Photographic ap-
| paratus, metal working machinery
sewing machines, soap and apparel
Of Photographic apparatus exported
rom the United States Cincludinp
motion picture films and other sensi,
lied materially, the average in the
three fiscal years preceding the wal
was about $6,600,000 per annum, while
the British figures of imports of these
articles from the United States
showed an annual average of $780,
900 per annum. Of sewing machines
and parts, our own figures of eX-
ports to Great Britain show an annual
average Of S2,592,00O per annum
while the British figures of imports
IF sewing machines from the United
States show an annual average of ST.
@94 900 Of apparel" our own fig
ures. if we include everything which
could be properly classified under that