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Show oo AMERICA TO LOSE THE TRADE OF RUSSIA. On tho first of tho year, the United States and Russia arc to sover diplomatic diplo-matic relations, and trade relations between the two countries will be seriously ser-iously interrupted. This is a direct result of the rebuke which the United Unit-ed States administered Russia over tho question of passports, growing out of the mistreatment of American Jews in Russia. Tho United States will suffer most by this breaking off of friendly intercourse, inter-course, as the foreign trade of this country with Russia has been expanding expand-ing rapidly, with promise of a greater growth In the near future, as Russia, Rus-sia, in Its development of Siberia is doing a tremendous work calling for American machinery. Tho trade figures of tho current year exceed materially those of any earlier year, especially on tho Import Im-port side. The largest imports from Russia recorded In any earlier years were, in 190G. $10,747,835; in 1909, $16,237,010; In 1911, $15,899,258; while for the current year the total will be, as above indicated, about 26 million dollars, an Increase of nearly 10 million mil-lion dollars. This increase occurred chiefly in hides and skins, of which the imports from Russia for the current cur-rent year will approximate 15 million dollars, against about S million last year. On tho export sldo tho details of the year's trade will probably shpw a larger total for agricultural implements imple-ments than of any other group of articles, ar-ticles, aggregating approximately S million dollars; while raw cotton will approximate C million dollars and manufactures of iron and steel, between be-tween 5 and 6 million dollars A detailed statement of tho articles forming the trade between the two countries can be more distinctly shown from the figures for the fiscal ycad ended June 30, 1912. They show Imports from Russia in Europe; of calf and kip skins. $S,952,323; goat skins, $1,-117,912; hides 'of cattle, $1,-105,364; $1,-105,364; sheep skins, $1,125,079; wool, $2,145,137; furs and fur skins, $1,-10S.19S; $1,-10S.19S; flax, $65S.S15; fusel oil, $3S4,-507; $3S4,-507; licorice root, $345,624; hair, unmanufactured, un-manufactured, $219,199; India rubber, scraps or refuse, $404,159; vegetables, $227,050, and seeds, $157,G21. From Asiatic Russia the imports of the year amounted to $1,443,577, including includ-ing unmanufactured wool, $GSC,08S; licorice root, $165,985, and manganese ore and oxide, $229,406. The exports of the fiscal year to Russia in Europe show raw cotton, $5,592,43S; mowers and reapers, 4,-928; 4,-928; metal-working machinery, $547,-323,554; $547,-323,554; plows and cultivators, $632,-453; $632,-453; other agricultural Implements, $S70,79S; copper In pigs, bars, ingots, etc., $1.351,S03, binding twine, $1,177,-752; $1,177,-752; sewing machines, $77G,S03; typewriting type-writing machines, $745,731; builders' hardware and tools, $401,034; automobiles, automo-biles, $254,047,- and upper leather, ?70G,G32. To Asiatic Russia the principal prin-cipal exports of the year are agricultural agricul-tural implements. $G95,50G; machinery, machin-ery, machines, and parts of, $134,070; condensed milk, $81,173, and binding twine, $75,S3S. |