The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-01-09
TRADE OF THE UNITED
 STATES WITH JAPAN IN 1918

l Trade of the United States with Japan in the year just ended has shown a tremendous gain, especially on the export side. A compilation by l the National City Bank of New York shows that the value of merchandise 1 exported from the United States to ! Japan and It's leased territory in China aggregated for the year about i $250, 900, ,000, against $134, 900, 900 in 1 the fiscal year 1917. To Japan prop CT the total for the ten months end 1 ing with October, 1918, is S223, 3,00O,0 900 against s126, 6,000,000 in the same months of 1917, and only $S1,000.000 in the corresponding months of 1916. I while to Japanese leased territory in China the total for the ten months of 1918 is s5.7S0,0 900 against s3,624,- o00 in the same months of 1917. and | $922,o0o in the corresponding months of 1916.
 1 This new trade with Japan's leased territory in China is especially inter esting, showing as it does very large | increase in both imports and exports, and representing food products drawn from that territory and manufactures i sent to that area. The value of mer- 1 chandise imported from Japanese China in the ten months ending with i October is, in round terms, S25, ,000,- 1 900 against slightly less than S10,- 1 100000 in the same months of 1917 and a little over $1,000,000 In the 1 corresponding months of 1916, and represents chiefly soya bean oil, while merchandise seSt to that area, amounting to nearly S6,000,000 in the ! ten months of 1918, against less than : $1,000,000 in 1918, consists of Vari- ous manufactures, but especially boots and shoes, and certain lines of ma : chinery. In mems boots and shoes { alone the value of shipments to Jap anese territory in China was, in the ! ten months ending with October, | 1918. nearly $2,000,000 against prac- l tically nothing in the corresponding 1 period of the preceding year, and the | quantity of soya bean oil imported
 from Japanese China $2O,2S5, 900
 against $9,314,000 In the same
 months of 1917, and $1,SS1 ,000 in the 1 corresponding months of 1916.
 l In the trade with Japan proper the growth occurs almost exclusively in raw cotton and manufactures of iron and steel. In raw cotton alone the I total exports to Japan in the ten
 months ending with October, 1918,
 were S71,7s2,00 against $25,936,0 ,000
 in the same months of last year.
 Steel sheets show a total for the ten months of $10,0ss,000 against s2,- 9s0.000 in the same months of last year, and tinplate in the ten months /, of the current year S10,205, 1000 against s3,320, 900 in the correspond ing months of last year. Steel rails,
 structural steelg cast and wrought iron pipes, wire. sewing machines.
 metal working machinery and wire
 nails also show large increases in the 1918 movements to Japan, as con-
 pared with the corresponding months of the preceding year, while leaf to-
 bacco, lumber, printing paper and
 spelter also show marked Increases
 On the import side, the chief arti-
 cies drawn from Japan are faw silk s12s 100000 against si25. .00N 900 in
 the same months of last ysar; silk
 fabrics little over s9,o0o. .000kagainsi
 about the sarae value in the Acorre. months of 1sz7s ted s..