Show takes BEST two thirds of our exports and supplies half the imports europe takes more than 11 on dollars worth of the exhorts from the un ted states wh ie all other ports of the world take less than half a 11 on washington europe takes two thirds of the exports ot the united states and supplies practically one half of the imports this statement summarizes in a single sentence the general facts which have been de by a series of discussions ot the trade of the united states with the countries of europe recently pre dented by the department of corn merce and labor through its bureau of statistics these discussions have presented an analysis of the trade with each country of europe by prin cipal articles and when summarized show that europe takes more than a billion dollars worth of the ex ports from the united states while all other parts of the world take a little less than a half billion dollars worth in no year since 1899 has the value of exports to europe fallen below one billion dollars while that to all other countries has never touched the five hundred million dollar mark prior to 1900 the exports to europe had never been as much as one bil uon dollars in 1 in that they crossed the billion dollar line be ang and have since thai time averaged ane raged about 1 00 per annum in 1900 the exports to all sec alons of the world other than europe were in value but have grown ear by year until in they were the growth since in 1900 in exports to the countries having been proper tiona tely greater than that to europe |