Evening star., 1940-06-23

ports silver Ito the United States,
which pays the best price,, wolfram,
antimony, lead, zinc, copper, gold
(also to the United States, sulphur
and bismuth.
Chile Is Copper Producer.
Chile, for the export picture, Is a
copper country. Here she competes
with the United States, so much so
that the administration could not
negotiate a trade agreement with
Chile because of American copper
interests fears that Chilean cop
per would compete in the United
States with United States copper
Nevertheless. before 1888 the United
States was Chile's chief market.
England took over, with 22l per
cent of the total. The United States
bought lat per cent. The coun-
tries now in the prospective totali-
tartan economic bloc to which Chile
exported in 1888 were Germany, l0.l
per cent; Belgium, 8 per cent:
France, As per cent; Italy, Al per
cent, and Sweden, 81 per cent.
These countries bought nitrate,
wool, lentils, iodine, barley, beans,
hides, fresh and chilled meats, fresh
fruits and gold in bars (again to the
United States, which is about the
worlds only gold buyer. The gross
value of Chilean exports in 1898
was 674,O90,0O0 pesos gold, or about
s8O,8SO 900.
Paraguay's Economy Varied.
Paraguay has varied economy
1t is country far from the United
States, in South Americas interior,
with an outlet to the sea down the
Paraguay and Parana Rivers bring
ing it to the seaports of Buenos
Aires in Argentina or Montevideo in
Uruguay. Its principal 1897 export
was ginned cotton, followed by que
bracho extract, cattle hides, meat
extract and yerbe mate "a sort Of
Paraguayan tea). Germany took IT'S
per cent of these exports, England.
107 per cent; the United States, 7.8
per cent; Italy, 6.5 per cent, and
France, IL per cent. Their total
value was 12,066,000 gold pesos, or
about s8,35O,000.
The Dominican Republic is the
only West Indian or Central Ameri-
can republic for which the United
States was not the chief buyer in
1888. England took Alt per cent
of exports valued at $14.347 900
United States took 321 per cent,
France per cent and Germany
3.4 per cent. More than half OF
the value of the exports was rep
resented by raw sugar. Lesser in
the Dominican export scale are
cocoa, coffee and molasses.
Uruguay Chiefly Agricultural.
Uruguay, like Argentina, is agri-
culturally competitive with the
United States in foreign markets.
1t is great pastoral country, rich
in land and meadow, so much so
that the Germans plotted to make
of it a Nazi agricultural colony. It's
exports reflect the sheep and cattle
industry-a third of 1t in value, un-
washed wool; the rest divided
among frozen beef, washed wool,
preserved meats, chilled beef, lin
seed, salted hides, wheat and Sheep
skins. 1t all amounted in 1888 to
96,355 ,248 pesos, about $4,000, 900.
About quarter of these exports
in value went to England, which
buys food in every quarter Of the
globe for her island populace. Ger
many took 1872 per cent; Argentina,
9.5; France, IA; Italy, a.; the
United States, 4; Belgium, %;
Netherlands, 2.7; Czecho-S -Slovakia,
81. In other words, almost third
of Uruguay's 1888 exports went to
countries now under the German
thumb.
Oil Venezuela's Chief Export.
Venezuela presents q peculiar
problem different from that of the
other countries where the United
States is relatively weak buyer
Oil constitutes 84.4 per cent OF
Venezuelas exports. Almost all OF
1t goes to the Netherlands colonial
island of Aruba, part of the Curacao
colonial government, for refinemen:
and re-eXport. Much of the read
oil used in the United States was
originally Venezuelan petroleum
Venezuela sells abroad a little coffee
some gold, cocoa, cattle and hides
Next to Aruba, the United States
is first on the buying list, with II
per cent. Germany, in the first
half of 1888, took 4 per cent. Eng
land, 4, and France. l.
Almost half of Brazils exports
are coffee, with raw cotton a gooc
second. Behind these come cocoa
hides and skins, oranges, carmaubs
wax. The United States in 1895