The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-06-05
FIRST HALF YEAR OF AFTER
 WAR TRADE.

Exports of finished manufactures
 from the United States in the half
 year following the close of the war
 are three times as much in value as
 in the corresponding period preceding
 the war. A compilation by The Ma
 tional City Bank of New York shows
 that the value of finished manufac-
 lures exported in the six months fol-
 lowing the signing of the Armistice
 (November, December, January, Feb
 ruary, March, and ApriD aggregated
 s1,161, 100000 or an average of
 s193, 100000 per month while the
 exportation of finished manufactures
 in the fiscal year immediately preced
 ing the war averaged but $61, 100000
 per month.
 In the six months since the war
 for which figures are now available, finished manufactures have been go-
 ing out of the country at the rate
 of S6,3OO,0OO per day, while in the
 year before the war they went out at
 teh rate of about S2,OOO.00O per day.
 In the other group of manufa ctures. classed as manufactures for further use in manufacturing there has also been an increase but not as great as { in the class manufactures ready for consumption.'' Of the group man ufactures for further use in manufac- turing" the exports since the war have averaged about S2,500,000 per day, while in the year preceding the war they averaged about S1,000, 900 per day.
 This growth in the exports of fin ished manufactures has occurred es- pecially in the movement to South America, Asia, Oceania, and Africa, all of which are large consumers of ma far Tn fa fo C- lures form over so per cent of our exports to South America and Asia, 90 per cent. of those to Oceania, 6S per cent. of those to Africa, and 66 per cent. of those to North Ameri- ! ca.
 ! Just how much of manufactures I has been sent to the respective Grand | Divisions since the lose of the war | or the actual per cent. of gain to i each Grand Division or country can | not now be stated but it is a fac. | that the total exports to South Am eri-
 ca, of which manufactures form over l so per cent. amounted to s220, 0,0O0,- | 900 in the half year following the | close of the war against $125, ,000,- i 900 in the full year preceding the | war, the total exports to South | America since the close of the war
 having averaged s37.o0o,Oo0 per | month against less than s11, ,000,0 1 per month in the year preceding the war. To Asia, the exports in the | half year following the war are S340,- | 00O,00 as against s113, 100000 in the l full year preceding the war, being | thus six times as much per month I since the war as in the year which imm ediately preceded the war, and I it must be remembered that manu- | factures form so per cent. of the to- | tai exports to Asia. To Oceanfa, | where manufactures form 90 per | cent. of the merchandise sent from | the United States, our exports in the | half year following the war were 1 s111,000.000 or average of s1s,- | 100000 a month as against an aver
 age of $7,0O0,0oO per month in the year preceding the war To Africa. the total exports of the half year following the war are s44,0O0,00O as
 against s2s,00O,o00 in the full year
 preceding the war, while to North America where manufactures form
 about two-thirds of our exports, the
 total for the half year ending the war
 is s60S, 900, 900 as against s529, 9,000,-
 in the full year preceding the
 MT.