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Show America's Tin Industry. While the United States has attained at-tained a commanding position in the tin plate export trode, It by no means equals that which England had before the war. Data show that while our exports of tin plate have grown from 67,800 tons In 1013 to more than 233,-000 233,-000 tons In 1917, they even now are less than 50 per cent of England's before be-fore the war, and only 85 per cent more than that country's present exports. ex-ports. Will this country ever have a tin Industry In-dustry of Its own? asks the Philadelphia Philadel-phia Inquirer. The American tln-melt-lng industry Is still In the childhood stage. Ore supplies In Bolivia, In South America, are believed to be large, but Bolivian producers are finding find-ing conditions here unsatisfactory for doing business. Only the future con tell whether any relief Is possible from this source. |