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Show MEXKH CDPPEB IMPOSTS WOT WE Less Than 100,000,000 Pounds Brought Into This Country Last Year;' Tho cessation of mining nnd smelling1 operations by tho American Smelting & Refining company, Grecno Cananea Copper Cop-per company, Moctezuma Copper company com-pany and other concerns In Mexico cannot can-not but havo Its effect on tho refined copper output of the United. States, for practically all of that product camo to this country for refinery treatment and marketing. The Boleo Copper company, a French Rothschild concern operating In Lower California, has been about the only mine shipping direct to Kuropo. Last year thcro TvaG impoT-ted Into tho United States from Mexico a total of 97.003,317 pounds of copper, valued at $H. 144. 121 This represented a. falling off from the previous year owing to tlio activities ac-tivities of Mexican Insurrectionists. Copper importations, from Mexico for a series of yeara havo boon is follows: Tear. Imports (lbs.). Value. 1013 07,0nG.RI7 51 i.ll l,4i:i 1012 124.741.MO:: 15,110,070 id 11 : 07,nr.,f.74 n,3r.3.7-!n 1010 S4,fi08,007 10.00I.7U:! 1000 7(5,110.714 0.200.S05 100s ::-uiii,ofir 4.0G9.04S 1007 60.0 12,466 JU.STMfil 100C , 72.048,144 11,S2S,128 1005 102,046,343 13,304,325 In addition to the above tonnages, which came In in ingot, pig, bar and plate form, there was imported 20,000,000 pounds in ore, ngalnst IS, 000,000 pounds in 1912. Tho Greene Cananea company last year shipped into this country about 4fi,-000,000 4fi,-000,000 pounds of copper and the Moctezuma Copper company of the' Phelps-Dodso company, 37,000,000 pounds. This would leave but 15,000,000 poundi to bo accounted for by the American Smelting & Refining company and Independent In-dependent shippers. During tho first part of the week there were some hopes of an improved metai market, especially for silver and copper. Silver has maintained the advance, but cdpper got dull again Immediately after the urgent orders were filled. Some of tho buyers of copper havo been anxious to get commitments for May and June satisfied, whllo some have sought to get their stocks for deliveries as far In advance ad-vance as July. Tt Is evident that big dealers are not prepared to make concessions conces-sions in prices as yet, though they have shown ii willingness to supply iho demand de-mand of the trade around the prevailing prices quoted by the smnller dealers. As a rule their prices are fractionally higher than tho small Jobbers. |