The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1933-08-17
FAR EAST LURES
SOUTH AMERICA
TO TRADE TEST
Brazil ARGENTINA, PERU
AND URUGUAY SEND TRfAE
SHIPMENTS TO ORIENT
LOOKING TOWARD TRADE
BY GIDEON SEYMOUR
ttJy Associated Tsresa


South America is looking to the
far east for new commercial OPP
portunities.
With European and North
American bpagkets. glatted by sur
pluses on vailed off bs quotas and
tariffs. Brazil, Argentinas Uruguay
and Peru havelsent to- the orient
trade ennssafleI and trial ship
ments Of meat, wheat, wool, cot
ton and hides.
viii Japan Eat Meat7 II
If $4,000, 600 Japanese, already;
buying Argentine wool and
Brazilian cotton, can be induced
to balance with bread, beef and
mutton froIii the panipas their
raticn OF fish and rice, the mar
ket viii be boon TO Z continent
where production costs are among
the lowest in the world,
Trade between South American
countries and Japan Is so new,
and stiIl so small, that statistics do
not portray the ascending inter-
est in it, They show that Argen-
tina sends to Japan less than one
per cent of its exports, and buys
from this country only 2.2 pei,
cent Of its imports,
This compares insignifieantlyH
with the United Kingdom, which
last year bought 80 per cent Of.
Argentine exports sand sold here
20 per cent OF all imports.
British Parallel seen
But the thiekIy peopleds islands
Of japan offer an economic
analogy with the British Isles II
Japan can be sold meat, it can use
frozen meats.
These can be shipped any dis
lance, but must bescOnshned with
in a day or two OF their removal
from refrigerated holds. Thus
they 60 only tof0ncatttAled and
populous maIkel As =
A consaFtiunl III tine neat
producers has beep formed to de-
velop the Japanese market Al
ministry Ct agriculture mission tol
Japan has been proposed. Argen-I
tine wool sales to Japan have
grown 10 per cent per annum since
1880. japanese fisheries are
negotiating with Argentina for the
right 70 exploit fishing waters
here.
Brasil Sends, cotton
Brazil, which has 125, goo Jap
aneee coIonlats and Is admitting
|25,00O more this year, has just
sent its first shipment Of raw
cotton TO Japan II went at re-
duced freights granted by 4 steam
ship line subsidized by the Tokyo
government.
Japan buys 100000 tons Of raw
cotton q year, as per cent from
the United States and AZ per cent
from India. Brazil milI..prodaceI
this year l5O. 900 tons of cotton,
and Japan IS eager to buy from
Brazil 50 it may sell there toys,
tableware and textiles.
Brazil can use little Japanese
tea, and Japan little Brazilian
coffee. bat Brazil sees Nip
ponese market for coeoa. hides.
jsrked beef, aud the. .Imangaaesel
used in steel production.
ckiassel Market Tried
Uruguay, enjoying a brisk busisI
|aesa with Japan in wool and hides,
has sent a government elnissaryI
20 study meat MARKETING oppor.
|tunities ia japan and China. To
China minor attention also has
been paid by Argentina. which re-
Gently sold there aud in Japan the
first Argentine wheat ever sent
70 the orient e
Peru. shortly before the LeticiaI
dispute with Colombia. sent a spe-
eial naval mission to Japan FOR in
strDctioFh and observation. Mill
|sary oiEvles understand that Peru
|obtained war materials from Japan
h exchange FOR guano.