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Show COMMERCE OF UNITED STATES Washington, Jan. 2. The foreign commerce of the United States in the calendar year 1913 approximated 1 3-4 billion dollars of imports and 2 1-2 billion of exports. The imports of the eleven months ended with November No-vember were 1,609 million, and should the December imports equal those of November, the total for the full year would be $1. ""16,000,000. The exports of the eleven months ended with November No-vember were $2,251,000,000. and should the December exports equal those of November the total would be $2,497,-000,000. $2,497,-000,000. This estimate would make the excess of exports over imports approximately $740,000,000. The figures of exports and of excess ex-cess of exports over imports will exceed ex-ceed those of any earlier year. The largest export in any preceding calendar cal-endar year was that of 1912, which showed a total of $2,399,217 993; and as the eleven months ended with No vember are 102 million in excess of the corresponding period of the preceding pre-ceding year, the estimate of approximately approx-imately 2 1-2 billion f..r 1913 seems to be justified The excess of exports over imports in the eleven months ended with November was $642,000, 000, and for the single month of November No-vember $97,000,000, thus apparently justifying the estimate of $740,000,000 excess of exports for the full year In imports the total for 1913 will be less than that of I'M 2. but larger than that of any year preceding 1912. This decline in imports in 1913 is due In part to reduction in prices of certain cer-tain articles imported While the quantity of sugar imported in the rn months ended with October exceeded that of the corresponding period of j 1912 by 368 million pounds, the value I of this larger quantity imported dnr-I dnr-I ing the 1913 period was 22 million i dollars less than that of the corresponding corre-sponding period of 1912. Coffee imports are much below j those of 1912. the figures for the ten months ended with October, 1913, be-1 be-1 ing 635 million pounds, against 752 ! million In the same period of last year j and the value but 80 million dollars, against 101 million In the correspond- Ing months of last year. Tea shows a fall In Imports of 1 1-2 million dollars dol-lars in value. .Manufacturers' mater-i mater-i ials show, as a group, a decline of about 5 per cent when compared with the corresponding period of last year, this leing due in part to a reduction I in prices and, in some instances a j reduction in quantity Imports of ' crude rubber, for example, show for the ten months ended with October a reduction of a little over 1 million pounds in quantity, but B reduction of 16 million dollars In value Copper Cop-per imports show an increase in quantity quan-tity over the corresponding period of last year, both in ore and in the group, piigs, iars, old and ingots. Raw silk shows a marked increase in the quantity imported in 1913. On the export side crude foodstuffs and manufacturers' materials show a marked increase, crude foodstutis Showing for the ten months ended with October, 1913. a total of 150 1-2 million dollars, against 98 1-2 millions In the same months of the preceding year; and foodstuffs partly or wholly manufactured 266 1-2 million dollars. I against 246 3-4 million in the same ; months of 1912 .Manufactures for further use In manufacturing export ed amounted to 339 million dollars m the ten months ended with October last, against 320 3-4 million in the corresponding period of the preceding year; and manufactures ready for consumption, con-sumption, 659 million dollars, against 607 million in the corresponding months of the preceding year. The increase in foodstuffs exported export-ed occurs chiefly in wheat, corn, barley, bar-ley, oats, flour, bacon and lard The increase in manufactures exported occurred oc-curred chiefly- in automobiles, railway) cars, electric machinery, manufactures manufac-tures of iron and steel, lumber, cop-1 per, and mineral oil. ro |