The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-08-17
TRADE WITH JAPAN SHOWS INCREASE; NOT
 so WITH OTHERS
Practically Whole Increase In Imports In Raw Silk ; Manufactured A rti c es Among Exports.

 Japan is the one important coun- trade shows an increase. Our inn ports from the whole world in the fis- | cal year 1922, says the Trade Record l of The National City Bank of New while from Japan alone. our imports show an increase of 1S8c. The 1922 exports to the whole world show re- duction of 42@o in value while those The imports from Japan in the fiscal year 1922 approximate 300,oo0.000 against $253, 3,000.000 in the fiscal year 1921, and the exports to that country in 1922 were approximately $245,- 000.000 against $1S9,00O,0OO in the preceding year. This estimate of the 1922 trade with Japan, adds the Trade Record, is based upon official figures of eleven months while those of the trade with the whole world during the full fiscal year are official.
 Practically all of the increase in our imports from Japan occurs in raw | silk while the increase on the export | side includes large number of man ufactured articles. True, raw cotton is the biggest single item in our ex. ports to Japan but the number of l manufactured articles which that country now takes from the United States is steadily increasing and in a | dozen or more of the imp ortant manu- factures the figures of 1922 show an increase in value when compared with 1921, while in most cases the increase in quantity is much greater than that | of mere value.
 Great Copper Increase.
 Of refined copper the exports to Japan in the eleven months of the fiscal year of 1922 for which details million dollars in value against less than a half million in the same months of last year, while the quantity in 1922 is eighty-seven million pounds Q ir1ct ho r11f1 in "a 1 preceding year. Of lumber the ex- ports to Japan in the eleven months of 1922 are valued at eight and one half million dollars against one and Ione-half million in the preceding year and the quantity 376,0O0 M feet against 45,000 M a year earlier. Steel sheets aggregate in value in 1922 ap- tproximately eighteen million dollars against about five million dollars last year, while the quantity in the eleven months of 1922 is 100000 pounds against 72,000,0OO0 in the same
 months of the preceding year. Zinc in the eleven months of 1922 is twelve million pounds against less than a half million last year. Other articles which show increases in value in 1922 as compared with the preceding year are sole leather, kid upper leather, gas and fuel oil, gasoline, paraffin, rosin, wire, raisins, and curtously, rice, grown in the United States, for the first time appears in the official list of articles exported to Japan, one of the great rice-growing countries of the world.
 Raw Materials Chief Items. Raw silk and raw cotton are, of or course, the biggest item in the trade between the two countries. Our imports of silk from Japan in Il 34,0O0,000 pounds valued at $21S,- pounds, pouiuGe valued ES1 at i5.ooo,ooo in the same months of last year. Our ex- II months of 1922 were s48,ooo bales valued at $73,000,000 against 447,0OO bales valued at $40.Oo0,000 in the same months of last year. In both these . prices appear in 1922, to show, but slight change as compared with those , of 1921, though in many other articles the prices of 1922 are far below those of 1921.
 Raw silk, silk manufactures, tea ) rice, mating and toys are the pr1nci- pal articles which we import iron
 Japan; while the exports to thai
 copper, lumber, leather, manufacture:
 of iron and steel, mineral oil in its , various forms, shoes, paper, tf t plates, electrical apparatus, automo 5 piles, musical instruments, sewing machines, typewriters, motion picture , films and many other manufacturec
 articles, indicating that we are paylnf
 in manufacture for large propor' : tion of the raw material Whlch WV , bring from Japan.
 l The value of our total trade witi
 Japan in the fiscal year 1922 is ap f proximately S55O,00o,000 agains l s550, 0,000,0O0 against s150. 900 il f l1e13. Merchandise from the United : States formed 35 per cent. of the tota imports of Japan in 1921 against onl. 17 per cent in 1913 and merchandis' sent to the United States from tha e country formed 39 per cent of her eX t ports in 1921 against 20 per cent. Il i1913.