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Show EXPORTS OF ZK . BREAK III RECORDS Last Three Months' Ship i ments Reach Total of 1 65,504,574 Pounds J'BIG INCREASE NOTED jjconsignments Practically ir Sixty five Times Greater P Than m 1913 jt "WASILTNaTON D 0 Due 4. All jlprevicras records an exportation of do finest o zuie were surpassed by the si p W ments during the last three months JVhich rose to the unprecedented total f of 65 504 574 pounds valued at $4 443 381 as compared with 1 348 877 pounds 2 valued at $80 7o6 In the correspond ng 3 period a year ago Figures compiled by the bureau of J foreign and domestic commerce of the j department of commerce show that the ? exports of domestic zinc in the form t of pigs ingots bar? etc , In the last V three months exceeded the total for the seven year period which ended w th r June 1914 In the last four fiscal years z ne exports have averaged 1', I 800 000 pounds per ann m In 1897 tfthe former h gh record year in exports of zinc the total was 3o 869 987 pounds That figure, however was surpassed by the single month of Sep "(ember last with an export'total of 1,38 090 144 pounds of zinc pigs ingots ftc i Highest Point Ever Known The unusually large exports of z no jn recent months were sent chiefly to Europe In September when the ex ports of z nc p gs etc rose to the h gh est point ever known, 28 000 000 pounds were sent to Fngland 3 000 000 pounds each to Scotland and France, and a33 333 pounds each to Denmark and Italy wh le 1 250 000 pounds went to Br t sh Africa and 125 000 pounds to Australia. This exportation of 65 504 574 pounds of zinc p o-s bars etc in the three months which ended with October rep resents about 10 per cent of the an nual don estic product which in 1912 amounted to 647 814 000 pounds Internat onal trade in zinc wh ch exceeds $75 000 000 annually is largely c ntered in Europe Stat st cs pub 1 shed in Commercial Relations of the Un ted States for 1912 reveal the fact that Belgium exports annually ?rudo zinc valued at $23 000 000 Ger many $17 000 000 the Netherlands $8 000 000 France $8 000 000, Italy $4 000 000 the United Kingdom $1 500 00O and the United States prior to the current year about $1 000 000 worth Chief Importer of Zinc. The United Kingdom is the world s ehief importer of zinc the total im ?portfl of that article in 1913 having been valued at $'1 000 000 cons st ng chiefly of crude zinc and almost wholly locally cons med Into Ger many the imports m 1912 amounted to $17 600 000 made up of ore and crude sine France imported in that year $14 000 000 worth of zinc o which $9,500 000 worth was in the form of ore and the remainder bars and other manufactured f orn s The Nether lands imported m 191 about $9 000 000 worth of zinc ore and crude z nc Other countr es whose annual imports of zinc cq al or exceed $1 000 000 in xalue include Belgium $4.000 000 Russia $3 000 000. the United States $2 000 000 Italy $1 oOO 000 and Japan $1 000 000 |