The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1920-05-17
AMERICAN CONSTRUCTION
MATERIALS CAN FIND
MARKET IN BRAZIL
Steel Products, Cement, Chem
icals and Paper Products
Most in Demand

Brazil offers q market for all xmas
of construction materials and mach
inery, not only in the immediate fu-
ture but for an indefinite time to
come, according to Trade Commission.
or w. w. Ewing, whose report on that
country was issued today by the bu-
reau Of foreign and domestic COM
merce, Department of Commerce. MI
Ewing recently returned to the
United States after a tour Of Brazil
United States after tour OF 1nvesti-
cation covering all the South Ameri-
can republics. He Is convinced that
Brazil, by reason Of its vast undevel-
oped territory and its immense re-
sources, is rapidly increasing In i'm
portance as an export field. Some OF
the goods that it will most urgently
need in the next few years are iron,
steel, coal, cement, caustic soda, sui
phuric acid, chemical and medical
products, paper, and most manufac-
tured materials requiring skill and
experience in their. production, such
as engines, agricultural machinery,
cutlery, the finer grades Of glassware,
oils, paints and railway materials OF
all kinds.
American steel products, Mr..
Ewing finds, are~very acceptable in
Brazil. The railways form an i'm
portant market, and the majority OF
these lines are quite willing to &C
-cept American manufacturers speci-
fications. or preferably. those of the
American Society OF Testing Mater
ials. .,~~
There will be a good market in
Brazil for Portland cement. More
than 100000 barrels of this pro.
duct were imported in 1913. ,.'
There is an enormous consumption
of glazed tiles. Because o. laws
which require that the bath and ser
vice parts of dwellings be finished in
tiles, there will always be demand
for them.
The Trade Commissioner says thai
in the north Of Brazil, especially in
Pernambuco, and also in Rio de ia
metro, there should be great market
for skylights. In the capital 80 pei
cent of the residences have skylights
Europe held so per cent of hard
ware trade of Brazil before the war
The product of the best American
manufacturers is in demand, but 1t Is
often found too expensive for the ord
mary consumer.
American electric elevator equip
ment has had the preference at Rie
so per cent Of all the installations
being of American make.
In the Brazilian trade in steam
engines, Observation-Disclosures engines
ice machines, and motor cars, since
all fuel is expensive. it will be neces-
sary for Americans to study the
methods used by Europe before the
war and endeavor to furnish prime
movers and the small individual units
of the greatest economy in fuel and
lubricants. giving guarantees of con-
sumption and power produced.
Full details concerning the sales
possibilities of these and many other
related articles are contained in
Trade Commissioner Ewing's publish
ed renort "Construction Material
and Machinery in Brazil" Special
Agents Series No. 1872, which may be
obtained from any of the district of.
fees Of the Bureau Of Foreign and
Domestic Commerce or from the Su.
perintendent of Documents. Govern.
ment Printing Office, Washington, D
c.. There are SO pages and illus.
trations, and the price is IS cents.