Show s 's f Wl G r EXPORTS I SENT 1 t r J 1 WASHINGTON D. D C. C Juno June IS Ot or Ot great creat practical value yaJU to tho the American business man seeking Information re so regarding o. o garding for foreign markets for tho goods goode which bleh ho handles or the sources of imported In- In Imported im Im- ported raw rou materials And find of goods competing with domestic products are two publications presenting details with to every over Important article exported ex ex- ported from or Imported Into tho the States prepared by tho the bureau of ot foreign for tor- sign eign and domestic commerce department department depart depart- ment of commerce It Is b Interesting to note for example that coffeo coffee In Is now supplied d almost t e ex elusively b by Brazil Central America 4 an another anI other tropical countries of the hemisphere that sugar formerly imported im ii- ported in large quantities from Irom Java Ja and th the r Ular beet countries of ot Europe Is ih now chiefly chiefly chleO supplied by Cuba the tho 1 Philippines and tho llio dom domestic product Including Ink In In- k eluding Hawaii and Porto Rico hero and that chat champagne shows sho's constantly diminishing cUmin dimin Importations as a result of or the rapidly ex expanding homo home output American factories consume great years sears Imports including flet fifty million dol dot dollars dollars' tars lars worth of or fibers eighty million dollars dollars' worth of raw ra silk and one hundred hundred hundred hun hun- dred million dollars dollars' worth each of India rubber and hider hide arc are mere meTe examples examples ex examples ex- ex amples of ot tits the more than different classes of ot articles whose sources aro arc shown hown in table 3 of ot commerce and navigation navigation navi navi- gation gatlon of or the United States and which include such widely Idel varied Items as 08 asbestos as asbestos aYe as- toads beads camphor cu human hair Ivory Ivor kapok rattans toys toy mushrooms and zinc Table Tabla of ot U. U S. S Exports Of or even more Interest to the American producer Is table 6 G. G exports of ot merchandise dise from tram tho United States to each foreign foreign foreign for for- eign country countr from which ma may be bo ascertained ascertained ascer ascer- those parts of ot the world In which our raw materials f foodstuffs and manufactures manufactures manufactures man man- are being successfully sold flold and those thos yet ct to bo entered Thus while the thc Iron and steel Industry exports goods to every Important count country with sates sales dollars dollar In over oer three throe hundred million value per pel annum and the tho automobile Industry Is making each cacti year car a new hl high h record the cotton manufacturing Industry Industry Industry Indus Indus- try exports less t than an sixty million dollars dollars' dol dot tars lars worth orth of or Its Us products each year mostly to the tho countries of or Asia and America The distribution abroad of or the J less s conspicuous articles of or commerce U la also indicated In table 6 5 Athletic and sport sport- Ink goods bre breakfast foods aeroplanes motion picture films cement chewing Ing gum confectionery and teeth art are typical typical cal I Items Hems chosen at random from the tho re report re- re port ort which also alo shows that wo we 0 export largo largo large quantities of dynamos to England of telephones s to Canada Canada of optical In Instruments Instruments In to Germany and France France Franc of stoves and ranges to Congo and other tropical countries and of or Ice l-ce to Canada Huge Increase Shown Tho The aggregate value of of articles Imported Im Im- ported portal Is shown hown by table 3 I to have increased In Increased In- In creased from 1312 million dollars dollAr In 1909 to 1813 1613 million In 1913 while tho the value alue of articles exported as shown b by br y table 6 6 has increased cd from 1638 1636 million to 2429 49 million dollars In tho same period Those Thos desiring de to learn tho the source of or oran an any ono one of the classes of ot articles Imported Imported imported im Im- Im- Im ported or the points of destination of the classes of or articles articles' exported may procure the tho Information upon application application application tion to the he superintendent of ot documents document government printing office Washington D D. C C. who sells tables 3 I and 6 of com corn merce and navigation of the United d States for 1913 1313 at tho the nominal nomina sums til UC ti 30 and aDd 3 35 36 cents cent respectively |