Show BUYING G OF UNITED STATES TES the ro foreign trad trade of the United States Slates Julius Klein or of Iho department of or commerce states that the tho States has become an enormously important factor In Inthe Inthe Inthe the economic life lire ot or the world and the widespread significance ot or our prosperity as a determinant or of our buying po power r is therefore ob IO obvious S Increasing even faster than experts our Imports no now represent more than thon sixth one or of International trade We e buy vast quantities of or tropical and semi semi- and exotic raw aw although it remains l ue tie that the United States Is toft to toti ti ft unusual d degree ree s self and that Imports represent a com corn comparatively ely email small traction fraction In la the then them n m of 7 or 8 per cent or of orIts oIts Its tot tot-il consumption However ny fly intimation as a a to the 11 lt It- It ot or this email small fraction I is quit out ot or the que question since t tia oi n erous Inval- Inval la 9 cd ot of numerous ibl rw roW r w oW w rubber materials materials rubber silk v Z r zi ablo able oils fibres I mInerals and tho the like like without ni It I thir ihl hl nation could not sur- sur sur V i J I The t-The The rhe value ot of Imports Importe In the year lust was In the tho neighbor neighbor- neighborhood hOO hood l 01 ot or about S 5 Sp p I T r r c lit more than In IUS nearIE near- near Ij IE tt 1 per cent greater than In inE ini 9 E and ne nearly twoS two and arid one one- one tall alt Um's tima th loge largest war pre pre war lue In tn the fiscal year ear ending In mi in 30 1911 1914 When adjusted for torii 1 changes u the volume of o un or t- t td tr In a d 1826 ns Is revealed re as he largest ever attained it i-d i d that ot or 14 1213 by at ati tat let t sixty per cent tent More than halt half of or the te on flon i on 11 II 1 In In Imports import n i Compard with ISH 1324 U t I i to high price w a 11 of or o rubber but buL the of oC the increase In du dur to larger s 's tr r that hat despite th the tho marked n t itt r April the th average a mi- mi miI mie I 11 t e pile or rubber was II t j lt per por cn higher for 1126 a whole hair thair In 1925 and that IS la Increased the cost costor or r oui Imports like O On the thi oilier hand handlow lOW fir r nr were declines In Ini pot prices ot or busar bugar coffee III wool paper long aple pl cotton calton an and anil 1 a number er of major Import Imparl commo commodities With the the exception of of turell In which tIme the de do- do de duo dua chiefly chiefly It If not Dot wholly to tho tha 10 1 lower lotter er price of at sugar sugar all alt all five ot or the treat great red economic classes cluses of ot Imports were greater grenter In value In 1326 1926 than In 1325 1925 Tho In the value or of imports ot or crude foodstuffs was largely duo to greater quantities rather than to price changes hangeL Our Our purchases of coffee by n a considerable margin the g greatest reported in a single year ear In the case ot or the tho class clUS or of material material crude Imports orts would have bue been no great gain And possibly A ft decline in total value alue but buttor for for the tha higher price or of rubber Imports noria of at which In- In Increased In Increased creu creased d from from 3 2 to 5 f per per per cent II in Iii quantity but roughly 18 p per r cent In value Imports or of o manufactures tures turea Increased about 11 or 12 per cent c continuing the tho gradual advance ad of o recent years and nd ro- ro the higher J buying poe power o ot or the tho ho United States for tor the tho prod prod- prod i ol of European Industrial IndustrIal Countries o fl I Impo every ory continent or of orthe the world except Oceania were Were greater In 1926 than In the pro pre pre preceding c coding ceding year ear car although ough llie gain In Inh h iii cas caso or ot tho the North orth Amerl an continent tS as small on account or 01 tho decline In Imports from Cuba and Mexico As in 1925 1026 Imports from A Asia Ala la were considerably greater than those front from Europe a position very ery front from that before the thc war I |