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Show 00 ITU EXPORTS j .JEPOHIQI (HG Figures just issued by the department depart-ment of commerce show that 80,658 motor vehicles, valued at $100,258,220, were shipped from the United States during the last fiscal year. This represents one-fifteenth of all the motor vehicles produced in this country in the last fiscal year and one-tenth of their gross value, according accord-ing to estimates of the National Automobile Au-tomobile Chamber of Commerce. There were shipped to foreign countries coun-tries (not including American possessions) posses-sions) 21,265 commercial vehicles valued val-ued at $56,S05,51S and 56,234 passenger passen-ger cars valued at $40,660,263. England, Eng-land, France and Russia took nearly all of the trucks (19,028) and nearly one-quarter of tho passenger cars (13,848) or, in all, two-thirds of the total value of the exports. Great Britain and her colonies bought 43 per cent and France and her colonies about 20 per cent. The Philippine islands isl-ands and the American possessions (Alaska, Hawaii and Peurto Rico) re- i celved 4488 motor vehicles, worth S3.- 1740,145. Products of American factories went to seventy-eight different countries, coun-tries, including Rumania, Switzerland, Serbia, the Azores, Madagascar, French Africa, Tasmania, Korea, Paraguay, Par-aguay, Gulanas, Nicaragua, Haiti and the Danish West Indies. Nearly 90 per cent of all the automobile auto-mobile exports were taken by twelve countries, as follows: England, France, Russia, Canada, Australia and Tasmania, Cuba, New Zealand, British Brit-ish South Africa, British India, Philippines Philip-pines and Dutch East Indies. |