Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-04-07
j s, BLACKLIST
PROVES FAILURE
SOUTH OF BORDER
German Merchants Receive
American Goods in Spite of
Bars and Ban Causes Anger
Among the MexiCanS,
Copyright, 1919. by the Press Publish
ing co.
(The New York WORLDLY I
Especial cable Dispatch.)


Mexico City, April 6.-The losses to
the export trade of the United States
TO Mexico alone due to the continu-
ance in effect of the enemy trading
list, despite the ending of the war, are
conservative!v estimated by compe-
tent judges at not less than half a
million dollars day.
This estimate includes not only the
direct loss TO exporters because of
their inability to sell goods to firms
and individuals on the list but dam
age to the present and the future
goodwill which American manufac-
turers and exporters say they fore
see as result of resentment directed
toward the United States on the con-
yiction here that the United States is
more responsible than the allied gov
ernments for causing and continuing
enemy trading restrictions.
1t is notorious that this impression
is scandalously fostered in Mexico by
trade rivals of the United States. and
that the prestige of the commercial
interests of the United States is being
damaged proportionally.
Restrictions Failed Utterly.
All the evidence indicates that war
Germans and German sympathizers
have failed utterly, at least so far as
Mexico is concerned, either to crush
German trade, to impair it seriously
or to prevent German merchants
from obtaining American goods.
United States products are on the
shelves of virtually every German
house in Mexico and have been since
IN a H.
tanned by German merchants through
indirect means.
Merchandise originally ordered and
paid for by German firms frequently
passes through half dozen hands be-
fore reaching the Germans. Each
middieman exacts a profit, which
forces the consumer TO pay double
or treble what the goods would cost
hi milf the Germans could buy direct.
one of the principal drug houses IN
Mexico City-which the American
authorities boosted they would put out
of business last year-regardless of
the fact that ii was blacklisted netted
1912 1000 profit, derived principally
from the sale of American goods.
Sales Worth Millions Blocked.
German houses in this capital alone
are now III the ndrhtl luz pelNSSh
Sc, 600, 600 and $7,000,000 worth of
American machinery and general mer-
chandise which United States export
ers are unable to sell them because the
bars against trading with the enemy
are still up. In all the republic i'm
mediate sales of probably not less
than S10.000,000 to German houses
are thus prevented.
Because few American houses in
Mexico are able to handle this trade
no sales of the required goods are
possible to other than German con
Germs. stg
The Germans have proposed that II
they are permitted to buy goods in
the United States they will bind
themselves to handle American goods
exclusively for a term of years.
American business men still COM
plain that the mail and cable censor
ship between the United States and
Mexico seriously hampers their OPP
erations Owing to the mail censor
ship it usually requires at least nine
days or more for letters to reach
Mexico City from New York.