The Washington herald., 1921-06-08
MEXICO EXPORTS
OF PETROLEUM TO
U.S.RAPIDLY GAINS
Crude Shipment Total
4,75O,OOO, 900 Gallons
In Fiscal Year.
15O,OOO,OOO DURING 1918
Importations of Manufactured
Article Will Approximate
125,OO0,00O Gals. 1921.
10000, 900 DURING 1913

Petroleum imports into the United
states in the fiscal year which ends
with this month will be nearly
twice that of any earlier year. not
withstanding the enormous produc.
tion of our own oil nelds The
total quantity of petroleum i'm
ported in the fiscal year 1921 into
this country, which itself produces
two-thirds of the oil of the world
will be nearly 100000. 900 gallons
against about 3.000.00o!o0o in 1920.
approximately 2.e0o. 100000 in 1919.
/ 500 10000 in 1913. and 100000
900 in 1917.
U. =. Produces Two-thirds.
The rapid growth of imports of
petroleum into a country which pro-
duces more than two-thirds of the
mineral oil of the world. says a
statement by the National City
bank of New York. illustrates the
growing disposition of world in
dustries and commerce to move the
natural products to points having
best facilities for Transforming :
them into condition for the use of
man. Prior to 1912 this country
with production and therefore re-
fining facilities three times as great
as that of any other country in. the
world imported less than 10000, 900
gallons of petroleum per annum
from other countries: then. in 1912,
with the development of production
in Mexico of crude petroleum which
annuslly moved to the nearest trade
center in which IL could be put into
marketable form and thence dis
tributed to the consuming world.
we imported. chiefly from Mexico,
150. 900. 900 gallons as against an
average of 100000 gallons a year
prior to that time. In 1918 our i'm
ports jumped from 100000 gall
Ions to SOC, 100000 gallons OF crude
oil. in 1914, 7T5. .000, 900: in 1916. s70,-
900. 900: in 1917 they passed the
|, 900. 900. 900 gallon line and were
l.33s.e50.ooe in 1918, nearly 2.o00.-
O00. 900 in 1919, over 2,075, 900. 900
in 1920. and in the fiscal year 1891
will approximate 4.o75,0o0.0o0 gal
Ions. and probably touch the 5,oeo,-
600. 900 gallon line by the end OF the
current calendar year.
Manufactured Article.
These figures relate to crude oil
imported, hut meantime there has
been a proportionate growth in i'm
portation of the manufactured ar
ticle. the total quantity of refined
petroleum in all forms imported
having grown from 47.0o0,00o gal
Ions in 1919 to -s2,00o,0 900 in 1920
and will approximate 125.ooO,e00
gallons in the fiscal year which
ends with this month. Most of this
enormous importation comes OF
course from Mexico. or the crude
oil imported in the 10 months OF
this fiscal year for which figures
are now available. 4,791, ,00o. 900 gal
Ions came from Mexico and less
than 100000 gallons from all other
countries.
Practically all of the oil imported
from Mexico comes by tank steam
er. the quantity imported by rail
being extremely small. About one
third OF the crude petroleum en-
tering the United States from Mex
leo enters at the gulf ports OF Gal
weston. Sabine and New Orleans
while most of the remaining two
thirds passes through the gulf
northward to Baltimore. Philadel-
phia and New York. The latest
available figures of the importation
by ports are those of the calendar
wear 1919. and show 545,ooo, 900 gal
Ions entering at the port of New
York. 202 100000 Mt Baltimore. 1885,
O00. ZOO at philadelphia, 35o.o0o,oon
at New Orleans. and Galveston and
Sabine about 2oo.ooo.ooo gallons
each.
The value of the petroleum i'm