Evening star., 1924-01-01
u. S.-MEXICO TRADE
100000 IN 1923
Heavy Shipments of Meat, Eggs,
Cotton and Rubber Sent
Southern Neighbors.
100000 WORTH OF SHOES
Rice, Flour, Raisins, Sugar and
Autos Included.
Snecial Disnat tch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
NEW YORK, January 1.-Trade of
the United States with our next door
neighbor at the south. Mexico. aggre-
gated about s250.000,0 900 in the calen-
dar year 1923, and $4,000, 100000 in the
| decade ending with 1923.
While our trade relations with
Mexico have always been good. says
the Trade Record of the National City
Bank of New York, they quite nat
urally improved after the beginning g
of the war in Europe, from which
Mexico had formerly drawn a con-
siderable percentage of her imports.
In the year prior to the opening of
the war, the calendar year 1913, Mex
leo took only 48 per cent of her i'm
ports from the United States although
she was sending US 76 per cent of her
exports, but with the difficulties and
dangers attending transatlantic COM
merce during the war she developed
the habit of buying larger share of
her imports from the United States
and in 1920 she took rs per cent of
her imports from this country as
against 4S per cent in the year pre-
|ceding the war and sent us 50 per cent
of her exports as against 76 per
cent in the pre-War year.
Trade Relations Grow.
This growth in the trade 'rela-
tions between the United States and
Mexico is further evidenced by our
own trade figures which show that
our exports to Mexico in the ten
years since the beginning of the war
have aggregated S1,129000, 600 against
about $3.50, 100000 in the ten years
preceding the war, while our imports
N ha A. n9rtnh
totaled $3.50, 100000 against approx
imately $550,000,000 in the decade
preceding the opening of the war. In
the calendar year 1922 the imports
from Mexico were 1892 100000 and the
exports thereto s11O,000,000, while
the latest available figures indicate
that the imports from Mexico in the
calendar year 1928 will be about
about s120.000,000, bringing our to-
tai trade with Mexico in 1923 up to
the quarter of billion line against
about s125, 100000 in 1913.
In fact, the percentage which we
supply of imports of.Mexico is great
| er than our share in the imports of
any other important country. Canada
takes about 90 per cent of her i'm
ports from US while. IS already indi-
Gated. Mexico takes 10 per cent of
her imports from the United States.
Articles Involved in Trade.
big trade between the United States
and Mexico? The merchandise which
we buy from Mexico is chiefly manu-
featuring material and tropical food
stuffs, and the exports which we send
to her are chiefly manufactures. In
the calendar year 1922 we took from
Mexico about 6,000,000 pounds of
hides and skins, $4,000 pounds of
rubber, 2o,O00,o00 pounds of cotton,
nearly a half million dollars worth of
mahogany lumber, about SIS, 100000
worth of crude petroleum, nearly
SIS, 200, 900 worth of copper and 49,
000,00 pounds of coffee.
on the export side we sent her over
! 100000 pounds of bacon and hams,
$500, 900 worth of lard. S2,000,006
worth of eggs. nearly 100000 pounds
of canned salmon. about S2,000,000
worth OF boots and shoes. 100000
pounds of rice. nearly $4,000, 900 worth
of -four, 100000 pounds of raisins,
100000 pounds of refined sugar,
$500. 900 pounds of raw cotton, about
&c. 900, 900 yards of cotton cloth,
81, 500, 900. worth of lumber, 1900. 900
pounds of paper, over $2.000,000 worth
Of refined petroleum. 100000 pounds
of tin plate, 100000 pounds of wire,
$5, ,00O, 900 worth of automobiles and
81, 100000 worth of tires.