The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-10-10
LARGE INCREASE
 IN EXPORT OF AMERICAN WARES
This Years Trade Will Elk ceed That of Year Be-
 fore War.

Exports of finished manufactures
 rom the United States In the first year of peace wil1 aggregate four times as much as in the year before the war. An analysis by the National City Bank of New York of the foreign trade during the eight months of the current calendar year shows that the exports of finished manufactures continue to expand, though that of manufactures for further use in manufacturing shows g slight de- cline.
 The total value of finished nanu- factures exported in the eight months ending with August, 1919 is s1,690,- 100000 against 1,s61, 100000 in the corresponding months of 1918 and s422, 100000 in the same months of 1914, the total for the eight months of the current year being thus four times as much as in the same months preceding the war.
 Manufactures for further use in manufacturing" which include such articles as pig copper, pig iron. steel bars and btIlets, and other partly manufactured material, of a class chiefly consumed in Europe, show a slight fall off, the total for the eight months ending with August. 1919, be- ing $6o,oo0,ooo against S732.oo0.o0o in the same months of last year, ees7,oo0.oo0 in the corresponding months of the preceding year, and S241, 100000 in the same months of 1914. Quite naturally the movement of this class of partly manufactured material, chiefly consumed in Europe, has not been as great since the de- mands of that continent, which were extreme during the war, have some what reduced, since the termination of hostiIities, and at the same time the prices of certain articles of this character, especially pig copper, have been somewhat reduced.
 It is in finished manufactures that the most remarkable and interesting record of the year has been made. The total value of manufactures ready for consumption exported Tn the eight months ending with Aug ust, as above indicated, is S1,690,O0O,- 900 as against s1,361, 100000 in the corresponding months of the last war year. Quite naturally, of course, the exports of manufactures ready for consumption' in the years of the greatest war activity, 1916 and 1917, were somewhat larger than in the first year of peace, especially in view of the fact that Europe was de- manding such finished manufactures as powder, shot and shell, guns, great and small, automobiles and flying ma chimes for the battle fields, etc. AS g. consequence of these special war demands the exports of finished man ufactures were in the first eight months of 1916, $1,7O6, 6,000,000, in the corresponding months of 1917, $1,- S6S,0OO,0O0, dropping, however, with the increased activity of the Euro Dean manufacturers to s1,361, ,0O0,- 900 in the first eight months of 1918, the last year of hostiliies, but ad- vancing to s1,690, 100000 in the first eight months of 1919, all of which occurred subsequent to the war.
 Tha tthis group of finished man rfactures ready for consumption should have shown 3. total in the first peace year greater than that of the closing year of the war and nearly as great as in the war years of high est demand upon us, indicates that the gains which the United States has made in selling finished manufac- lures the world over are being re- tained and in fact have increased in this first postwar year.
 Easing an estimate for the remain ing months of the calendar year 1919 upon the known figures Of the eight months ending with August, the in dications are that our exports of fln- ished manufactures will be slightly over s2,5o0, 100000 as against S630,- 100000 in the full calendar year 1914, while those of manufactures for further use in manufacturing will be about 0,0O0,oO0 as against $345,- 100000 in 1914, bringing the grand total of manufactures exported in the calendar year 1919 up to approxi- mately ss,5o0,oOO,ooO as against $975, 5,00O,0o0 in 1914.