The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1921-08-08
TRYING To CAPTURE
THE WORLD THRU TRADE

Berlin, July 23.-Correspondence of
the Associated Press) s).-German ex-
port manufacturers are laying plans
to win control of so per cent of the
worlds comerce by the time the war
indemnity is liquidated and to do this,
which they consider essential if Ger
many is to meet promptly her obliga-
tions to former enemy countries and
remain economically sound, "feelers"
have been put out for negotiations for
extensive credit loans IN virtually ev-
cry country once interested in or now
attracted by German trade possibili-
ties.
The German manufacturers. who
are understood to be closely co-Operat-
ing in plans to launch the campaign
for world commerce, are hoping for
special agreements with American
manufacturers which would not take
into consideration in any appreciable
manner the proposal of the Amrican
Finance Trade Corporation to estab-
lish a $1,00O,OOO buying fund in the
United States for Teutons.
Already a number Of tentative
agreements have been made between
German and American firms "on pre-
war acquaintance and postwar mon
ey values" but the fluctuating mark
and the high cost of the dollar have
rendered any large deals on strictly
cash basis out of the question.
The delay in declaring the state OF
war between the two countries at an
end also has embarrassed manufac'
turers in both countries. and ever
now, that peace has been declared, the
situation is uncertain because it is be
lieved many weeks must elapse before
the nationals of either country know
approximately what the new relations
will be.
The Germans are placing theil
principal hope for favorable relation
with American concerns in schema
by which they would act as "Europeal
4 agents" for the Americans, and woul'
manufacture in Germany raw mate
rials sent from the United States ant
sell these manufactured goods to tn
/. Americans customers here on per
centage basis. This scheme alread,
has been proposed to certain Ameri
can manufacturers. Concerning TIN
plan an informant in close touch wit
the German industrialists said:
"Many German factories are noN
working only half-time not becaus
{ there is no market for their goods, bu
because they are unable to secure ra'
y materials at reasonable prices. In
q cost of production In Germany Is s
much less than it is IN America ths
y the Americans, as well as the Gel
mans, could cooperate proftably
$ meeting the European demand IL
A manufactured articles. The mark'
: for cotton goods, for agricultural mi
. chinery, for automobiles, in fact Il
A all sorts of machinery, viii not
v over-supplied for many years.
! "This proposal is particularly tim
f Iy now, when it is estimated that Il
! worlds surplus cotton crop this ye'
e viii exceed last years by five and
half million bales. The European d
,e mand for cotton goods has been d
= creased by the substitutes which &c
# mans especially have been forced
le manufacture, but it would prompt
Z revive if the goods could be plac
te cheaply before consumers The IN
Of cost of labor and the high value
d American money abroad makes it ne
xe TO impossible for the Americans
meet this demand. The Germans f
Id they could do it.
he ssThere is another point which
| German industrialists are making