The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1920-10-26
WAR-TORN LANDS
BACK INTO TRADE
COUNTRIES CUT OFF BY STRIFE
BUYING HEAVILY.
In FRS. Eight Months of Present
Year Belgium BUYS to Amount
of Several Millions.
From a Bulletin issued by the Ma

From a Bulletin issued by the Ma
....tional City Bank of New York.
The trade of the United States
with the war-sequesterea countries
those which We're cut of from inter-
national commerce as a result of the
war-will aggregate more than ST.
0O0,000,OO0 in the calendar year
1920. To the dozen countries with
which our trade was necessarily sus-
pended during the war period our ex-
ports in the calendar year 1920 will
approximate s750,ooo,ooo: and our
import therefrom about S250,o0o,-
600. These dozen countries are Ger
many, Russia, Poland, Finland, Bel
GUM, Austria, Czecho-Slovakia, Hun
gary, Jugo-Slavia, Rumania, Bulgar-
ia and Turkey.
In the eight months for which we
have official figures the imports
from Germany amounted to $685.
100000 against S1,o00,O00 in the
corresponding months Of the preced-
ing year, and our exports to Ger
many s166,0OO,0o0 against s25, 5,ooO,-
600 in the same months of the pre-
ceding year. From Belgium our i'm
ports in the eight months period
amounted to sss,ooO,ooo and our
exports to that country s205,oo0,-
600. From Turkey in Europe the
imports are s1O,Oo0,000 and the ex-
ports thereto s20,00O,0o0; while
from Turkey in Asia the imports
thereto were but about Ss,0Oo,ooO.
To Poland and Danzig, which are
combined in the official figures, the
exports in the seven months ending
with July, the latest figures avail
able. are, in round terms, S60,0oo,-
600, and the imports therefrom lit
tie less than 100000.
Experts Exceeded Imports.
To Czecho-Slovakia the exports
are s6,500,OOO, and the imports
. therefrom s5,5Oo,oo0; to Jugo-slavia
the exports are little over $780,
600, and the imports therefrom ex-
tremely small; Russia in Europe
s1h,O00,0OO against about ss7,ooo,-
900 in the same months of last year,
and the imports of last year, and the
imports therefrom about S1,50o,ooo'
while to Asiatic Russia the exports
are s13,O00,OOO, and the imports
therefrom about $S,000,00O. 10
Rumania the exports are in round
terms, G6,O00.000 against sl'5oo'-
600, but the imports therefrom are
small, while to Bulgaria the exports
are s1,500,00O and the imports
more than s3,OO0,000. To Finland
the exports of the period in ques-
ton are s15,O0O,O00 and the I'M
ports therefrom little less than
s2,00O.0oO.
The articles forming this redevol-
opine trade can not at present oe
stated in great detail. On the I'M
port side, in which the present state
ments are especially meager, the
principal articles include: Two mil
lior dollars worth Of tobacco from
Turkey in Europe and S13,0O0,ooO
worth from Turkey in Asia, carpet
wool from Russia in Europe, $780,
900 worth and from Russia in Asia
s461,O 900; these figures relating to
the seven months ending with July
of the current year. From the ter
ritory designated as German Ocea-
mia, which is now chiefly under con-
troll of Great Britain and Japan, the
: imports of corpra amounted to over
s1,0O0,0OO in the seven months IN
question, most of it coming from the
Southern islands which are under
control of Great Britain or. her Aus
tralian and New Zealand colonies.
Furs imported from Asiatic Russia
amounted to s5,777,000 and from
European Russia $4,000. No fg-
ures are available as to the articles
forming the s5o,ooo,ooo worth Of
imports from Germany in the current
wear, though presumably they are
chiefly chemicals, dyes and mlscel-
laneous manufactures. From Bel
gium the s32,O0O,Oo0 worth of i'm
ports in the seven months for which
figures are available include cotton
goods. especially laces, manufactures
of fiber, India rubber and other
tropical products drawn by her from