Show EUROPE IS OUR BEST CUSTOMER Takes of the Exports of I 1 the United States and Supplies Om half the Imports ENORMOUS BUSINESS DONE BILLION DOLLAR MARK LONG SINCE CROSSED W Washington MarCh Murch takes of th the of the United States and supplies practically on hall 01 If the tre imports This summarizes izes In a single b the general facts have neon d v by a series ot of C or the trace ot cr tue U States with tUt countries ot of europe re presented by the department or of commerce anti and labor through ItS us bureau jt t statistics haVe pre an analysis ot 01 the trade country countr of by smi 2nd summarized snow that takes lakes more than a billion WOrth of the exports from the United L States while all other parts ot of the world take a little less than II a half billion doll dollars r worth In no year sInce has the value of exports to fallen below one bU bit lion Hon white while that to all other trIes has never touched touch d the five hundred bundred dollar mark Prior the ex cx ports to Europ had never b been en as as one billion dollars jn In vaine in that year ear they crossed the billion dollar line Une being arid and have since that averaged about per an annum num In 1900 the exports to aU all sections of the world other than Europe were were in value but have grown year yearby yearby by year until in 1905 they w were the growth since in J j in exports to the thenon non countries having been pro proportionately proportionately greater than that to Europe The Import Side On the import side Europe as already indicated about oi of th merchandise brought into the States Prior to the share of the Im imports ports drawn from Europe averaged ab about ut 65 5 per cent after 1890 the average rage was a little more than 50 per cent Jt was per cent ThIs reduction in the pe per percentage of the imports drawn from Eu Europe Europe rope Is apparently acc accounted for by the growing demand in the United States for tropical and subtropical products which are supplied almost exclusively by the theother theother other grand divisionS of th world The value of f tropical and subtropical products brought into the United States in was a against in and o in 1535 Most of this class of imPorts comes of course from th sections of the world orId much of it from South America especial especially ly Iy coffee and India rubber much of it from the southern part of North America especially sugar sisal and tropical fruits a considerable part from A ia including tea raw silk and spices while contributes sugar spices cocoa and other products of this character and Africa cotton in india ia rubber hides and skins and a small supply of sugar Mostly Manufactures The trade of the United States with Eu Europe Europe rope is composed on the he Import side chiefly of manufactureS and materials 1 for use in turing on the side of food stuffs manufacturers mn ma materials and manufactures The manufactures tures imported from Europe are arc the higher grades of cotton silk and wool fabrics into which labor and in man many eases cases hand lab labOr r largely enters while chemicals grades of Iron and steel manufactures s toys wines china and cut and plate glass and other articles of this kind contribute largely to the grand total In addition to this thi how however however ever there ther are imported from the Eu Euro European ro a count countries leg certain articles the tha product of th lr respective e colonial pos f including India rubber Tubber fibres tobacco hides and skirts skins wool tin raw rawS S ilk d monds ard ad various tropical an and subtropical productions The ex cx ported portE to Europe are chIE chiefly fly breadstuffs I and live cattle and fruits for or food raw cotton for use in manufacturing and anda a variety of manufacturEs including cop copler copIer ler Ier In pigs bars and Ingots mineral oil agricultural implements boots and shoes manufactures of wood oIl cake cotton cottonseed cottonseed seed oil vegetable oils ons naval stores and various arious manufactures of Iron and steel ver a Billion Of the worth of merchandise sent t Europe in 1005 was man ures the other worth being largely food tood stuffs and manufacturers ers era materials With the owing tent tend tendency ency ancy of our steadily iner increasing tsin population tIon to consume at home a larger share of the food stuffs produced d in the United States ind to increase the consumption b by our factories the supply which can be spared for Europe is decreasing rather than increasing and ns as h a the percentage of exports sent to Europ is slowly decreasing Prior to 1857 the share of ou our total ex cx exports ports sent to Europe was over W per cent SlIce that time the percentage has grad fallen until it ft reached 72 per cent In 1002 IO and in 1905 1005 was but per cent of the tot total aI while the share of the ex exports x ports tAken b those grand division tl to which the exports are chiefly hires tures shows ni increased in compared with |