Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-08-19
Trading With the Dutch.


/ Any che accustomed TO think Of the
/ Datch as small and unimportant
! people will revise his estimate by study
ing trade statistics The Netherlands.
! which is the proper title of the country
! also known as Holland, accounted for
235.448a44 Of our foreign trade in
+ 1927 so far as the mother country in
! Europe IS concerned, but when the
/ Dutch possessions are added the total
rises lnpressiyely 10 1897 .958 1896. The
Dutch East Indies (which sell us much
/ rubber did SI23.525. 754 business with
he United States and the Dutch West
Indies and Dutch Guiana did S35983,-
798. Tropical possessions are enriching
! the Netherlands.
Italy, Belgium and Spain are the only
| other European countries TO do above
/ 500, 600 600 business with the United
States last year, the figures, respec-
/ lively, being S240, 556.65i. $iS844l ,795
and SIP .533.626. Sweden was close to
| the century mark in millions with $o2,-
| sos. sos.
Among what also might be classified
as small nations are Denmark, which
traded with us to the extent of s62.-
2l2,80a Norway. s45 .597.234; Greece,
! S44.663 949-Sfowing what compare
| lively limited numbers of people in
/ small areas can do industrially and
/ agriculturally
/ When the new nations in Europe are
/ considered, the nations created after
! the World War. II is found that Czecho-
sioVakia is far in the lead in trade with
! the United States the figure being 500
/ ISL. l62. and followed by Finland with
| S25.i57 588. Poland with si4,025.917:
Latvia with S5,498,l0o: Yugoslavia with
Sl,9sl.l7o; Estonia with $I,350,20l, and
Lithuania with s736617
Dealing With Soviet Russia.
Soviet Russia bought from and sold
TO US last year TO he amount of ST.
793,484 without there being any diplo-
matte relations between the two coun-
/ tries and with trade handicapped to
/ that extent. The balance Of trade was
! decidedly in our favor. as we sold Rus
/ STA S64 .92l 1913 worth Of goods and
bought from her only $12,876, 7el Rus
STA purchased about $4,000 900 worth
/ Of cotton from us in 1927.
Turkey. with which we recently re-
neWed diplomatic relations in the full
/ sense, traded with us TO the extent OF
i S24,09s.s25 Egypt was our customer
/ up To S44474,298. and. though the
United States Is the greatest cotton
producing country, nevertheless we
bought S3o,000.000 worth Of Egyptian
cotton last year much Of II being used
II making automobile tires. Egypt thus
beat Us IN trading for she sold US S33,-
1s2.i49 worth Of goods and bought only
Sflsl32i49 worth from us Syria among
Near East countries figured ss.53l.-
III in our trade: Persia, S9.095.405.
Palestine. sl.33s.542, and Irau, men,
toned In recent dispatches about nm
rest in Arabia, s4945.033 Syria is a
French mandate and Irao and Palestine
British mandates under the League Of
Nations.
THIS continent Of Europe mot count
ing tie Near Eastern countries men
tloned) Is the best customer Of thu
United States among grand divisions of
The globe with q total Of $500 OO9. 79i
for both exports and imports. This ia
more than billion dollars ahead Of
any other continent, and illustrates the
commercial supremacy Of the nations
from which America has overmhelnl~
.u4l9 derived her population.