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Show TRADE WITH 11 . OLD IWfXICO TO ' 3fii Tradeof (he United States with A 'tMmP Mfcxltb 16 showing, the effect, of the ARlR disturbed business 'conditions In that aVJIl country. t This Is 'especially true with ."-'mR reference' to cexpqrts which show a iCTr much greater"' decline than Imports. t5$jJT Exports to Mexico during the last jy ear sh wqa fall of about 20 per cent njft when compared with the immediately W preceding year, while imports show 'v also a slight decline hut less than that t ZJHml of exports. Tho total value of ex-' ex-' ''MM) ports to Mexico during tho J 2 months ''il ending- with January 1912, the latest --JJB figures of the Bureau of Statistics, Vtffil De)artment of Commerce and Iabor, 'wRm Is ?n2'27 '87- against 3C1.C71.C59 In ? v?!B the corresponding months of the Im-K Im-K mediately preceding year, a decline iSM' of lD0Ut- 12 ml)l'n dollars, or an a-nt'M' a-nt'M' crage falling off of a little more than eoS a ml"'on d"ars a month during this iVftW r Period. Imports from Mexico during $ the same period amounted to $59,227,-tteffif $59,227,-tteffif 51C, against ?59.9S1,S90 during tho 'UISl ) corresponding period of tho preceding v23 ' year, heing less than one million b2M dollars becrease. j9 Thla fal,in off of 12 million dollars jfl In the exports to Mexico In the 12 H months ending with January 1012 bc- 9 corncs more apparent when coutrast- g l ed with our trade with other parts Sof the world Exports to South America, Amer-ica, for example, show an increase of 25 per cent In the 7 months ending end-ing with aJnunry -1912, when compared com-pared with the corresponding months of the preceding year, thoso to Cuba and the other West Indies, a flight increase; while to Mexico, t'he exports ex-ports djirlnc the 7 months endine M : with January, 1912, decreased nearly j i 25 per cent, and during ,the year, as "jSJ Indicated aboe abuot 20 per cent. In SjBP everv month since April. 1911, tho flu? aluc of merchandise" exported to jSyff Mexico has been less than that of the ty! corresponding month of the preceding iSj year, April. 1911. haing been In fact SmP ,ne on'3 one " ine rast 32 mon'DS ?"! which did not show a decline In ex- lnm ports to Mexico when compared with iRsB the corresponding month of the pre- $m ceding year Jo!j Manufactures form by far the lar- iwtf gest pait of our exports to .Mexico Wjf tinder ordllnary conditions, Of the lw 60 million dollars worth of domestic i$ifttf' merchandise?" exported to Mexico dur- i$mi ing the fiscal year 1911, manufac- hWJl tures of iron and steel alonge amount- 1 cd to over 20 million dollars; cars, ' about 2 million; boots and shoes, and other manufactures of leather, about 2 million; cotton seed oil, nearly 2 million, lumber, .nearlv 3 million; scientific Instruments. more than L' million; chemicals, onietly manufactured, manufac-tured, ovor 1 million; explosives ncarb 1 million; Automobiles, over one-half million; agricultural Implements, Imple-ments, ovor one-half million, glass1 nnd glassware, nearly one-half million, mill-ion, manufactures of indla rubbor, nearlv three-quarters of a million; furnlture.about thre-quarters of a million, and a large number of other manufactures in less sums while in other articles the reports of the bureau bu-reau of Statistics show corn to tho value of nearly ! million dollars and meats, about 2 million, In each case a material increase over the preceding yenr iuu liiumg on in ej.ports to Mexico, as above outlined, is evidently a mere part of the general reduction in her Imports, a reduction in which the United States participates to a somewhat some-what less degree than do other countries. coun-tries. An examination of tho latest official publications of the Mexican Government receled at the Bureau of Statistics, shows a falling off of about 10 per cent in her imports from the United States, and approxltaately 17 per cent in her Imports from all other countries, during the six mouths ending with December 1911. Her exports ex-ports to tho United States In the same period showed a decline of about 3 per cent, while those to other countries coun-tries showed an Increase of about S per cent. Tho share of Mexico's Imports Im-ports which were drawn from the United States in tho six months ending end-ing with December, 1911, was In round terms, 5T per cent, an'd the share of her exports to the United States, about 77 per cent In the fiscal year 1909-ao. the share of her imports 'drawn from the United. States was, In round terms. 58 per cent, and of her exports sent to the United States, 70 per cent. |