Show 1 DEFICIT II IN 1314 1 14 EXPORTS Y fROM GERMANY Claimed That N War ar Restrictions Restrictions lions Will Permanent Permanently Y YIn In Injure are Copper BERLIN Jan 27 7 via London London London- r Exports from Germany to the United States In the year 1914 1911 according to compiled by Julius G. G tT G Lay American consul general here amounted to This tOtal tota shi sh shown WJ ca a falling ot off of oC as compared with the previous year That this decrease decrease decrease de de- crease falls entirely within tho rho period of the war Is prove proved by a comparison o othe oi of f the last six months of ot 1913 with thelast thelast the tho last six siz months of 1914 Old This change Is s due dUc perhaps not Hat so 80 much to general trade depression as ns to the prohibitions on tho rho export of articles articles articles arti arti- cles of ot military value Hides and leather cattier alone count for of tho rho decrease there haring having hav har ing been not a sin single le shipment of these goods during the last quarter of the they y year car Cotton manufacturers and antl the exporters exporters ex ez porters of electrical machinery machiner supplies suffered generally but certain other lines of trade showed summing act activity ty or even cen gained sines aine during one Lne war It t to should be o r n a in min mind that the eu supply p lv of raw cotton was teas for a n time interrupted ed and that it dropped 50 per cent an and that copper enters lar target largely eh- eh into tho rho manufacture man of electrical equipment eq Further Reduction This Year A fallin falling off is to bo be expected however how over ever in 1 1915 iii as a con considerable proportion proper tion lion of the ez exporting at the present resent time is duo to t the o fit fillin filling ing of incomplete contracts Little new naw business ia is being heing contracted for and tho rho usual run ot of Continued on page paSe 12 D DEFICIT Continued from Tm pao o I 1 American merican buyers ers in the winter season cason is not to be noticed this year ear Tho The decision de tIc to hold bold the u usual ual spring n fair lair at from March 1 i to 10 0 March 5 per pcr haps haje will attract buyers in greater numbers number Time Tho frei freight t. t rates for or exports in owing to tho of ty finding return car car- hees gors' for or American cotton ships are arG favorable fa According to the list ot of expected team r arrivals cotton is coming in at tho the rate rato of bales bale ala al a month mouth to meet the c estimated yearly carh of bales Thip indicates indi cates utes that the number of steamers en en- in this traffic is iA likely to rather than creaso as the tile year car Je eeLs older ohler Th The opportunity recently afforded afford od ed to import turpentine an and resin also will stimulate shipping Permanent Loss t to Copper American can trade with G lion how over evrIt It still ill is is suffering from se in in- dif f American n agents find it bar hard bard to understand wh they annot get Jet supplies ot Of carp carpet t s sweepers typewriters I amid woO women's shoes th thu military availability of these particular not miot being clearly a an- an parent to them The difficulty of o ob ob- taming mining ninin American meri n supplies is is throwing this branch bronchi ii nf nl trade into time the hun hand of German and the thc British embargo on ou cop con per per pcr according to arguments a advanced here is likely to o havo a permanent ef cf feet on ou the tho American copper trade after the war German manufacturers of ot articles in m which copper opper is lar largely uDd tinder r the tI spur ur of oC nc necessity or eased by bv the high price of this metal arc ure finding that zinc or alloys or even cn stool steel and cast east iron can cau bo be substituted in a number of ca cases cs It is u believed lic cl that tho the lower cot cost of the these o materials materiaL will induce manufacturers to continue continuo with them thorn even n when time Uio return of peace reace rc- rc normal condition conditions |