Arizona republican., 1920-02-05
AF TER THE WAR INCREASE SHOWN IN DUR INIT PORTS
Unexpected Gain in I'm ports Follows Peace-1n- crease Most Noticeable from Three Big Allies

one of the surprises of the after the-war trade of the Unired States is the large increases in quantities C1 merchandise being sent Us from Eu- rope It has been asserted that Europe would have little which she could send to the United States in exchange for merchandise, but official figures of the imports from that continent in the cal enlar year will show a total consider ably more than double that Of 1918. While the details of December are not yet available. the official figures for II months ending with November put the imports from Europe at S653.- 319O0O against $292, 1000 in the same months of 1918, and partial re- ports for December indicate that the total from Europe in the full year 1919 will approximate S150,0O0.0O0, against $31S, 000,000 in 1918, and form a total larger than that of any year since 1914. The 1919 figures will apparently show an increase of 125 per cent over those of 1918, the closing year of the war.
 This big increase in Europe's ship ments to the United States is not due in any great degree. says statement of the National City Bank of New York, to the resumption of trade by the central powers. The figures for the II months ending with November show the total of 1919 imports from Ger many to be about sS.000.0O0. Austria Hungary s .000. 900 and Turkey. $13. .OoO. .000 Nor is the increase from the neutrals as great as had been eX- pected, the increase from the ScandI- navian states being but about Sl3.o00.- 900. and from Switzerland ss.000. 0o0. though Spain does show q compara lively large increase. S2S.000.o00. and Netherlands q gain of S39.000,0o0.
 Bulk from Allies
 The bulk of the increase of s36O, 000,- 900 in imports from Europe in the II
 months ending with November comes from the three most active partici-
 pants in the war on the allied side. Great Britain, France and Italy. The
 merchandise from Great Britain i'm ported in the II months ending with November stands at S261.O00. 900, against s140. 900 in the same months of last year: from France. S101 .000. GOO, against s55. 100000 in the correspond : ing months of 1918. and from Italy 1 $52. 100000 against s23.000,000. Thus these three most active of the allies in the war show an advance from, S219.- 000.000 in the II months of 1918 to <. $4260000 000 in the same months O. | 1919. an increase of nearly loo per cert
 This big increase, in merchandise which we are drawing from Europe
 occurs largely in luxuries. Cotton
 laces and embroideries imported. chiefly Of European manufacture showed in November. 1919. s2.350. 900. against s659.000 in November. 1918. and will total about $14000000 in the full year; diamonds and other precious stones. practically all of which are ! brought from Europe. chiefly from the ] Netherlands. showed sfn November. 1 1919. $S.433.000. against s1.4590oa in November of the preceding year. and for the full calendar year 1919 will ex-
 ceed s100.o00,0 900, against s24.000.000 in ] 1918
 1 Furs. drawn chiefly from the I United Kingdom. amounted to SI3.G00, 900 in the II months of 1919. against d ' little over sS.o00.00O in the same
 months of 1918. Pearls. from France.
 in the II months of 1919. are $4, ,594 900 against $111 ,000 in the same months of the preceding year, and from Great Britain s5,076,00G, Against S3110 IT
 the same months Of 1918.
 In few articles required for manu- facturaing there are also increases from Europe: raw silk. from Italy. Sl5.310.000. against s53,622 in the same
 months of last year, and india rubber. which England is again beginning to draw from her colonies s23.130.00O in
 the II months of 1919. against s3- a24.0O0 in the same months of 1918.