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Show EUROPE IS OUR Esrjxm Takes Two-thirds of Our Exports Ex-ports and Supplies Half the Imports. Europe Takes More Than' a Billion Dollars Worth of the Exports From the United States, While All Other Ports of the World Take Less Than Half a Billion. Washington. Enropo takes two-thirds two-thirds of tho exports of tho United States and supplies practically one-half one-half of the Imports. This statement summarizes In a slnglo sentence tho general facts which havo beet S-volopcd S-volopcd by a series of dlscusslomi Ji tho trado of tho United States with tho countries of Europo recently presented pre-sented by the department of commerce com-merce and labor through Its bureau of statistics. These discussions have presented nn analysis of tho trado with each country of Europe by prln-clpal prln-clpal articles, and when summarized show that Europo takes moro than a billion dollars' worth of tho exports ex-ports from tho United States, while All other parts of Uio world tako n Jlttlo less thnn a half billion dollars' worth. In no year slnco 1899 has tho valuo of exports to Europe fallen be low one billion dollars, while that to all other countries has never touched tho flvo hundred million dollar mark. Prior to 1900 the exports to Europo Sad' never been ns much as ono billion bil-lion dollars In valuo; In that yeat they crossed tho billion dollar line, be-Ing be-Ing $1,040,000,000. and havo slnco that tlmo averaged about $1,050,000,00 per annum. In 1900 tho exports to nil sections sec-tions of tho world other than Europo wore $354,000,000 In valuo, but havo grown year by year until In 1905 they wero $498,000,000, tho growth since in 1900 In exports to the non-Euro-pean countries having been proportionately propor-tionately greater than that to Europe. |