The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1920-05-31
AMERICAN TRADE
! GROWS N ORIENT
Trade Relations With China
Particularly Show Very
Healthy Condition.

rapidly growing trade'o Use ofAeHs
has increased from less than 10 per
cant. In the year before the war 10
over 20 per cent. In 1913. The total
tsde Of the Orient. including in this
tam Asia and the adjacent islands,
aggregated, says q statement Of Ths
National City Bank Of New York,
about $500, 900, 900 in 1913 Of which
about $475, 0 1000 was with the Uni.
ted States, but in 1918 bad advanced
% $S,150, 100000 Of which S1,SS0,0O0,'
900 was with the United States. While
the general trade Of the Orient nearly
doubled during the war period, that
with the United States quadrupled.
Our exports 10 Asia and the Philip
pines, which In 1913 amounted to only
$153,0Oo,00o, were In 1918 ;775,00o,0O0
and In the fiscal year about 10 end will
exceed $500, 900; our imports from
ithessectlon In question, which amount.
ed 70 only $3OO,0O1,nG0 IN 1918, were
\$1,10o,000,00O In 1919 and will proba
BY aggregate $1,000, 000,00 In the iis.
cal year ending with next month.
Manufactures, says the Banks
statement, were the principal articles
MORNING the imports into the Asiatic
Countries, and when the European
supplies were cut of by the war, they
naturally turned TO the United States.
which was directly accessible across
the Pacific and was, even then, the
lorlds largest producer Of manufac.
5res. As aconsequence, the Asiat;c
countries have not only increased
their imports from the United States,
but also enlarged the percentage
which the United States products
form Of their increasing imports. Chi
M, for example, which in 1913 took
only 6sper cent. Of her imports from
TIE United States, took from US over
70 per cent. OF her greatly increased
imports IN 1918, the latest year for
which details Of her trade are avail.
nble; Japan. which buys not only man.
nfactures but also raw cotton from
totai innorts from the Tinted States
Rnd.in 1913 37.S per cent: India, which
IN i91a took less than 3 per cent. OF
nj inports from. me United States,
stooF rom i,s IN 1915 practically S per
cent. Of her total imports; Dutch East
Indies, which took, prior to the war.
fron fhe limited States. shows in the
Iatest wear for which figures are avail.
a6In 10 mar cent OF the imports drawn
:ffofn tha United States: the philip.
bfnes which have. since annexation,
ftsEen q large share Of their imports
fnrn the United States. increased the
Ikafa frorn ri uer cent. IN the fiscal
syear 1914 10 90 mar cent. in 1918.
0rr ernorts 10 China. as measured
nv otir own official records. advanced
from s2i 000. 200 in the fiscal year 1918
IA sl06600y000 In the calendar year
1911 10 jspan the exports advanced
nom s7iy 700 600 in the fiscal year 1918
ia 0sS6 ono 000 IN The calendar year
isfs. ia india. the total exports In
1917 ware si5 600 600 and in the cal.
endar year 1918 SIX. ZOO. 1000. To Dutch
Eost Indies the total exnorts Of 1911:
Were s3000.00 and IN the calendar
vsas 1914 III 0oo OOo. To the Philip.
nines. Inc total exports in 1913 were
b 06o00o and IN 1918 s70O00OO0. ToI
sIi Isia. the total exports in the fis.
al wear 1914 were sis, 0OO0 900. and in
ina calendar wear 1915 100000, 600.
the growth has also continued in the