The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-02-02
INCREASE
 IN IMPORT OF EUROPEAN GOODS
Luxuries Are Chief Arti- cles Received Since Close
 of War.

Ol w dIs
 One of the surprises Of the after | the-war trade of the United States is the large increases in quantities of l merchandise being sent us from Flu rope. It has been asserted that Eu- rope would have little which she could send to the United States in exchange for our merchandise, but of ficial figures of imports from tha. com tinent in the calendar year will show a total considerably more than double that of 1918. While the details of December are not yet available, the official figures for Il months ending with November put the imports from Europe at se53, ,0o0. against s292,- 454, 900 in the same months of 1918, and partial reports for December in- dicate that the total from Europe in the full year 1919 will approximate
 S75O, O,000,000, against S,O00.000 in
 1918, and form a total larger than
 that of any year since 1914. The 1919
 figures will apparently show an in- crease of about 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 a statement
 of the National City Bank of New
 York, to the resumption of trade by
 the Central Powers. The figures for the Il months ending with November show the total of 1919 imports from Germany but about $S,000,000; Aus. ria-Hungary S2,000,00O; and Turkey $13,000,000. Nor is tne increase from the neutrals as gerat as had been ex- pected, the increase from the Scan-
 dinavian States being but about $13,- 0OO,0OO; and from Switzerland $S,- 100000; though Spain does show a comparatively large increase $2S.a00,- 900, and Netherlands a gain of $59,- 900, 0,000.
 The bulk of the increase of $360,- 100000 in our imports from Europe | in the Il months ending with Novenl- Der comes from the three most active participants in the war on the Allied side, Great Britain, France and Italy. l The merchandise from Great Britain l imported in the II months ending with November stands at $267,O0O,- i 900 against $140,000,00o in the same | months of last year from; France l $1O7, 100000 against $56,O00,000 in | the corresponding months of 1913, l and from Italy $52,O00,000 against s23,00o,0o0. Thus these three most active of the Allies in the war show an advance from $219, 100000 in the | II months of 1918 to $42e, 100000 in | the same months of 1919, an in crease of nearly 100 per cent.
 l This big increase in merchandise ! which we are drawing from Europe occurs largely in luxuries Cotton l faces and embroideries imported, l chiefly of European manufa ature, O Q n | against $659, 1000 in November 1918, and will total about s14,OOO,OOO in 1 the full year; diamonds and other I precious stones, practically all of | which are brought from Europe. l chiefly from the Netherlands, showed in November 1919 $S,433,000 against | S1459,000 in November of the pre- l ceding year, and for the full calendar year 1919 will exceed 0,000,0O0 | against s24,000,000 in 1918; art l works 100 years old and over, | amounted in the II months ending l with November 1919 to over s12.- | 100000 as against a little over $4.- l 100000 in the same period of 1918; | 1918; olive oil, of which the imports | in 1918 amounted to only s450,000, l was in the II months of 1919, $16,- 1 493, 900, though it is proper to add 1 that a, very large proportion of this | came from Spain, the quantity from | Italy however, advancing from $20,- l 900 in the Il months of 1918 to l $597,000 in the corresponding period | of 1919; furs, drawn chiefly from the | United Kingdom, amounted to $13,- 1 00O,0O0 in the II months of 1919, against a little over s3,000,000 in the 1 same months of 1918; entrants. | chiefly from Greece, show a, total of 100000 pounds in the II months l of 1919, and 5,000,000 pounds in the | same months of the preceding year; ! of artificial silk, chiefly European | product, the imports of the II
 months of 1919 are $3,424,o0O, as against s2o5,OO0 in the correspond
 ing months of 1918; pearls from
 France in the II months of 1919 are s4,594,0 900 against S111,000 in the 1 same months of the preceding year, | and from Great Britain $5,076,000 in
 the same months, of 1918.
 In a few articles required for
 manufacturing there are also 1n-
 creases from Europe, raw silk from
 Italy S15,000,000 against S53,622 in
 the same months of last year, and | India rubber, which England is again
 beginning to draw from her colonies,
 $23130,00O in the II months of 1919
 against $3,724,000 in the same cor
 responding months of 1919 against
 S3724,000 in the same months of
 1919 against s3,724,00O in the same
 months of 1918.
 l HOW TO MAKE, A CAVE,