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Show H Large Exports Of Leather Goods BUB . - PH The Most Notable Feature, Is tho HBM Marked Expansion In the Ship- HHfl menta of Footwear PH The oxportH of leather and mnnti- Ki fncturcs thereof cuntlnuo to expand, PPR tlic latest government Htntlstlca show- Hb. Ins further gains for tho seven Hli months period ending January 31, In HV; nil varieties of leather, with the ox- PH' ccptlon of sonio unclassified upper B stock and nlso in nil kinds of mnnu- PHi facturcd leather goods, except burn- HHw' ess nnd saddles. In digesting the HBW government flgures one prominent HBl: fenture is tho very satisfactory in- PH crease in exports of such lines of :l lenther as do not enter into tho con- PPBj Btructlon of military goods nnd nlso HHs of women's and children's slioctt. For Hb instnnce, glnzcd kid leather, which is Bl not used in nrmy shoes, wan export- PBB cd during thoso seven months to tho Hb value of ?9, 520,739 as compared with HB , $5,838,731 during the corresponding HBI period a year ngo, whilo calf amount- Hb cd to $3,345,077 ns ngninnt only $777,- Hb S45; patent, $1,070,152, ngnlpst $005,- HB r.S'J; women's shoes, $3,750,155, against $2,708,901 and children's chocs, $1,113,155, ngalnrt JU79.3S3. The material gains In the nbovo enumerated varieties aro of probably moro lasting Importance than tho greater temporary increases In war goods as it I" hoped that most of our enlarged foreign trade In the former will be held after tho European Europ-ean conflict is over. Of tho seven months export of glazed kid tho United Uni-ted Kingdom took almost half, or SI,-030,227 SI,-030,227 as compared with $3,324,045 during tho previous period, but n greater gain than this was to Continental Conti-nental Europe with $3,898,344 as compared com-pared with $1,348,921. It will thus no ko"i that out of tho total shipments of kid Europo took $7,928,571, or all but $1,598,168 of tho wholo. Outside of Europe, tho kip shipments to lira-zil lira-zil wcro $321,427 for tho soven months or about double, while slight gains wcro registered to all other countries. Tho government does not glvo tho soparato countries to which cnlf leather is cxportod bo that it Is not known lust how tho great Increase In-crease of over 300 per cent wob proportioned, pro-portioned, but it is generally supposed suppos-ed that Europo ' has been tho chief buj'or, nnd probably American calf tanners liavo been benefited to n considerable extent In placing tlielr goods abroad by tho practical elimination elimin-ation of competition from the very lnrgo calf leather producers of Oer-mnny, Oer-mnny, Tho total exports for tlio soven months of all varieties of leather amounted to $10,000,251 and of shoes and otlier manufactured leather goods to $3S,933,782, making $S5,C00,03fi together, to-gether, which compares with $53,-OSG.SOG $53,-OSG.SOG In 1915 nnd $33,119,107 in 1911 Tor tho snmo period. An Important Impor-tant gnln wns in solo lenther of which $1(i,S1C,1G2 worth wns exported during tho seven months ns against $13,15S,534 in 1915 and ovor four times ns much as two years ago. Dur-! Dur-! ing the 1916 period Great Britain took I $11,998,001 or all except $1,100,633 of I tho totnl, but In .tho last seven I months ending January tho ship-I ship-I ments to Great Britain dropped to I $7,553,724 whilo material gains Wcro I registered to other countries especially especi-ally Russia, Netherlands, Franco and I other Europo. Tho total boot and I shoo exports wcro $20,787,577 ns compared com-pared with $10,087,011 for tho prcvl-his prcvl-his period, whilo harness nnd saddlery sad-dlery decreased to $3,902,502, as against $6,126,724 nnd all other lenth. er goods increased to $8-,141,277 as ngalnst $3,128,036 for tho seven months of a yenr ngo. |