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Show " . , I. S. PIKES II EXPORT RECORD Whole World Seeking Auto Materials From 1 his Country WASHINGTON, Sept 3 The whole' wcrld seems to be demanding motor ehlcles and is looking to the United States for its supply.' Records of the! department of commerce for the fls-l cal year 1920. Just ended, show that automobiles and parts of automobiles alued an, $232,252,370 were shipped from this country'. This was nearly I nine times the total value of such exports before the war. Th number of cornrprcial cars ex-' ported during the 11' months ended June 30 was 24,850, valued at 841, rj"7.6S4 as compared with 12.921 Valued Val-ued at $33,233,485 In 1919. Passengf car shipment:; showed an even greater ; Increase, the total being 115.519 valuei. I at $1 25,384,025, as compared with 41,-291 41,-291 valued at $ 15,852,705 the year be-foro. be-foro. I The United Kingdom led In the lm-1 ports of both commercial and passen-l ger cars, taking 4593 of the former' end 17.52S of the letter. Canada was Second in the matter of both types off cars, taking 2443 commercial and 9993 passenger vehicles. Cuba imported' 4CC3 passenger cars and 1526 commer-' clal automobiles. Brazil was next be-j hind Canada in imports of passenger' csrs to the total of C109 British India In-dia imported B144 passenger can and cfritlsh South Attica 5752. Australia took 5S98. Argentina 334 3 and New Zealand 5208 passenger cars. The Scandinavian countries also vorc heavy purchasers of passenger I automobiles. Nsrr. y taking 3035 and Sweden 40.r5. Spain purchased 2714' Denmark 2374. China 1069. Uruguay! 276 4. Reru 1051. Mexico 2749, Philippine Philip-pine Islands 244 1 and Chile C19.I Prance Imported only S39 passenger vehicles, but It took 1392 commercial cars. Japan also purehnsfd 1096 com-1 morclal trucks and Mexico 1017 American motor cycles also contin-! ued in heavy demand; a total of 25,041 ' valued m $t. 550,022 being exported during the fiscal year The demand for American machines, b.ought with It a corresponding demand de-mand for equipment. The value of automobile tires exported during the! fiscal year 1920 was 889,919,777 as! compared with $81,880,800 the year before The total of automobile . n-gines n-gines shipped was 39,421. valued at ft;. 070. 4 19. compared with 28,445 valued val-ued at $4 134.2 4 4 the year before. oo A new record was established for March In the xportution of motor e-Mcles, e-Mcles, when 17,887 cars and trucks. Valued at $20,600,000. left the I nited Slides for foreign countries |