| Show UTH BECOMING GOODS TO over one half If million dollars worth of merchandise from utah to foreign countries utah had merchandise exports in 1924 amounting to according to statistics just released by the department of commerce the total export trade of the united states for the year 1924 amounted to I 1 I 1 asphalt and bitumen led all other commodities in shipments abroad during the year and amounted to being followed by exports of sulphate of ammonia valued at the balance of the export trade was split into minor items which were not clarified exports amounting to over for the year attained by eleven states of the fifty two states and regions included in the tabulation they were texas new york pennsylvania illinois california new jersey louisiana michigan virginia ohio and massachusetts minnesota with shipments valued at was just outside of the first eleven states while nevada with exports amounting to but brought t up the rear of the entire list with utah as the second from aroi the bottom this is the first time in the history of the government trade statistics according to dr julius klein director of the bureau of foreign and domestic commerce corn merce under whose charge the figures were compiled that an attempt has been made to show the relative yearly standing of the different states and regions of the union in the never ending struggle for foreign trade formerly official trade figures gave only the port from which wl h ic I 1 1 shipments were cleared inland producers desirous of finding out what agricultural and manufactured goods came from their regions wanted the commerce department to adopt some other system the outcome was the new compilation which is based primarily on through bills of lading and therefore in the case of some states reflects but a part of their total foreign trade and for others includes goods produced elsewhere the element of seasonal fluctuation says director klein should also be considered |
