The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-03-20
EFFECT 0F DYE
 EMBARGO ON US.

Reports of an Australian embar- go on all merchandise not originat- ing in Great Britain seems to have grown out of an order limiting the importation of dyes into Australia to those of British origin. MT. Henry '. Braddon, Commissioner in the United States for the Australian Com monwealth has received a cablegram from Australia indicating that no prohibition of importation has been made except that relating to dyestuffs not made in Great Britain. A com pilation by The National City Bank of New York shows that the impor- tation of dyestufs into Australia amounts, under normal conditions, to about $350.O00 per annum, and that our own dyes and dyestuffs to Aus tralia in 1917 amounted to SIP, 800 as against $16,725 in the year pre- ceding the war.
 This quadrupling of our exports of dyes to Australia during the war period illustrates, says the Bank s statement. the promptness with which the world responded to the de- vn1Opment of the dyestun industry in the United States. It Is well known
 .---.. the production of dyes and dye stuffs in the United States increased very rapidly following the termin- alton Of trading relations with Ger many, from which country most of
 our dyes were formerly drawn, but it is Interesting to note that this in crease was sufficient to not only meet
 our own growing requirements but to also enable us to come to the relief
 in a modest way of our neighbors in
 E T-+ot inn of dyes and dyestuffs from the United
 States for the year imme diately pre-
 ceding the war, the fiscal year 1914 was but $356,919, advincing to $1,- 177.e25 In 1915, $5, ,1O2, 900 in 1916, $11, ,709. 600 in 1917, and $16,922, GOO in 1918. Analine dyes alone formed nearly one-half Of the 1918 exports or to be exact $7,298 900, logwood eN- tract $2.239, 900, and all other dyes S72S40OO.
 The whole world sat up and took | notice" of the fact that the United 1 States had become 8 source of sup | ply to this important requirement of | the industries, for our exportauon oi | dyes and dyestuffs in 1917 was dis. | tributed to no less than TO countries | in every part of the world, amounting 1 in that year to $11, ,7O9,000 while ir | 1918 the total exports amounted tc | s16, ,922.O 900 or practically double the | value of our entire importation ot ] dyestuffs in the year preceding the ! war Japan in 1918 took $3.233, ,O0( ! of arr1 Iz-a- ~e-Irst fE22.ooO in o17 | and S167, OO0 in 1316; India took S1 ,, 1 94S 900 worth in 1918 against $107, l 600 in 1916; Brazil S1,8S2,00O agains 1 s71 900 in 1916; Italy s1,182, O0t
 against s9o5, 900 in 1916; France S1, 1 680. 900 against $247.OO0 in 1916, ant l all Europe about $9.0O0, GOO worth il
 1918 against approximately $2,5OO 1 900 in 1916
 Germany was the worlds chic l producer and exporter of dyes priol
 to the war. her total exportation O
 dyestuffs amounting in 1913 to $54 1 100000 which was however slight 1 ly less than the value of our owr
 manufacture of dyes in 1917. since 1 the United States Tariff Commission
 in a recent report states the produc 1 ton of coaI-tar dyes alone in thu United States in the calendar veal
 1917 at $57,796, ,22S