The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1920-03-16
PART OF
WORLD SUPPLY Of
FINISHED GOODS IS
NOW COMING FROM
THE UNITED STATES

Washington, March l6.-The United
States is still leading the world as
an exporter Of manufactures. The
total value of manufactures exported
from this country in the calendar year
1919 was S3,4SG,OOO 900.
This figure Of $34s6, 900 OOO worth
Of manufactures exported in 1919. SAYS
statement leaves the United states
still clearly in the lead as an export.
cr Of manufactures. In the year pre-.
ceding the war 0913) our eXportatiou
of manufactures amounted to $lll7,.
600 600 and in 1919 the first fun peace
year following the war s3,4S6 900, 0O0,
or three times as much in value in
1919 as in 1913.
This p2enomenally large total If
manufactures exported in the first
full peace year, s3,4SG 900 600, keeps
US. says the statement, AT the head
of the list of worlds exporters Of man.
ufacturcs. Prior to the war the Unit.
ed States ranked third among the list
Of nations exporting manufactures
Great Britain being first. Germany a
close second. and the United states
third, with France close fourth.
With the beginning of the war the
outflow OF manufactures from the
European countries was greatly re
duced Germany, of course. was cut Off
absolutely from the world markets.,
and the manufacturers OF Great Britain
and France found It necessary to
turn their attention especially to the
requirements Of the home markc'
This left the United States the chief
manufacturing country upon which
the Allies could call for militia "
supplies, or upon which the non.mau-
ufacturing world, Asia. Africa, Ocean
Ia. South America. and North Ameri
ca outside OF the United States, could
draw for their daily requirements Of
manufactures.
As consequence there came IN
enormous increase in the exports ot
manufactures from the United stat aS,
which jumped from sl,1l7 ,OO0O0 in
war, to s3,4SG 100000 in the first peac"
year following the war. This phenom.
nal incrcas" in our own exports. coup.
led with the decline in the exports Of
our former rivals has placed us
clearly in the lead among the worlds
exporters of manufactures. for Of
course, none Of our former rivals. OK.
Cept possibly Great Britain. has made
any considerable progress in the
rc.establishment of their expectations
of manufactures.
The only country in which the ex
ports Of manufactures in 1919 approx.
innate those of the United States Is
Great Britain, whose official figures
show total exports of all domestic
products in the full year If based un-
on the normal valuation Of the pound
stering) s3,SS3 900 900, and of ARTICLES
wholly or mainly manufactured" 49,.
| 075,000 900 as against our own total
of S3,4sG, 900 600 OF wholly or mainly
manufactured articles in the same
period.
the large increase in value of our
exports Of manufactures in 1919 Over
that IL 1913 means n corresponding
increase in quantities sent out Of the
country. for doubtless the ayerag,
valuation OF the articles exported "a
fully double that Of the pre.war per
iod but as this condition would also
apply in the figures Of other couA.
tries it seems apparent that the United
States still stands at the head of the
worlds exporters Of manufactures.
though the rapid gains made by Grea,
Britain in 1919 indicate that u main.
tenance of our present rank will re.
quire close attention to this line of
foreign trade by the manufacturers and
exporters of the United States.