The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1920-03-11
CANADA TRADE
Is DECREASING

Exports from United States in Can
ada in 1919 were $15O,oO0,O0O below
those of 1918, while to practically
every other important country of the
world the exports show an increase.
The total to Canada in 1919 was only
2734 100000 against 1887 900 900 in
1918, and SS29,OO0,O0O in 1917. To
practically all the other important
countries exports for 1919 show
large gain over the preceding year;
to Mexico an increase of $50, 000, 900;
to Cuba gain of $51,OoO,Oo0; to Ar
gentina an increase of $50,000,O00; to
Brazil gain Of $4,000, 900; to China
an advance of $59,U00,o 600; to Japan a
gain of $9S,Oo0,000; to Great Britain
gain of over $2OO,000,O 900.
Exports to every grand division ex-
cept North America show large gains
in 1919 when compared with the i'm
mediately preceding year, while in the
case of North America there is fall
off, all of it apparently occurring in
the movements to Canada. Exports to
Europe in 1919 show an increase OF
34,6 per cent over 1918; to Asia, $40
per cent; to Oceanic 23.1 per cent; to
Africa, 65.3 per cent; to South Amer
lea, 41.2 per cent; while to North
America the total is $1,296,OOO 900
against $1,325, 100000 in 1918, a de-
crease of $29,0O0.0O0, while to Canada
alone the decrease, as above indicated,
is $152,O0O,O0o, indicating that to
other parts of North America the ex-
ports show large gain.
War Material Exports Decrease.
This fall off in exports to Canada
/, in 1919, says a statement by the Ma
tional Bank of New York, occurs in a
very large part at least in the classes
of material which Canada was buying
for war purposes in 1918 and 1917,
and did not need for that purpose in
1919 Wheat for example, Of which
Canada is always a large producer and
large exporter, totaled SCI $4,000 in
our exports to Canada in 1918, and
only $3,335,000 in 1919, suggesting that
her large importation Of our wheat
in 1918 was intended for a further
movement to Europe either for Can
adam troops or those of the Allies.
Corn, of which the export to Canada
in 1918 was practically S20,000,000.
dropped to little over $10,0o0,00O in
1919, while steel billets fell off $19,-
100000 in 1919 as compared with 1918;
raw cotton $13,000,0O0; fuel oil $11,-
100000; coal $17,Oo0,OO0; copper ST.
OOo, 1000; lead s2,oOO,ooo; steel plates
$3,o00,000; steel sheets $2,0o0,0o0; tin
plate 100000; pig iron 100000.
Many Articles Increase.
These articles numbering a dozen,
and of a character greatly in demand
in Europe in 1918, are the principal
ones in which fall off occurred in
1919, and curiously their fall off ag-
gregates practically as much as the
entire reduction in our exports to
Canada in 1919. Others of the hun
dreds of articles of the class required
by the domestic market of Canada
show in large proportion of cases an
increase in 1919 instead of the de-
crease occurring in the classes of
material presumably passed on from
Canada to Europe in 1918, but not
required for that purpose in 1919. In
cotton cloths, for example, the ex-
ports to Canada in 1919 show larger
totals in every class of cotton goods,
cloths dyed in the piece showing an
increase of $2,50o,0o0 in 1919 as COM
pared with 1918; unbleached cloth an
increase of nearly $1,o0o,0Oo; and
other grades of cotton cloths SIM
liar increase. Among the other classes
of merchandise in which the value
sent to Canada in 1919 is greater than
in 1918 are automobiles, gain OF
about 100000; dyestuffs, materials
for tanning, typewriters, galvanized
iron, barbed wire, sole leather, upper
illuminating oil, gasoline, motion pic
ture films, wooden wearing apparel,
butter and cheese.