AMERICAN EXPORTS.
A REMARKABLE INCREASE." '. San Francisco, August 23. Tables just issued by the 'Federal ~' Bureau of Statistics furnish particulars / of the growth of American exports during the year ended June 30, The figures for the twelve months show an , advance of exports over the preceding year of more than £2B,OOO,CMSM>. The ", total value was £182,000,000, a* against - a total of £153,2000,000 for 1910, and £134,200,000 for 1909. Exports of manufactures are classed under two heads—manufactures ready for consumption, and manufactures for further use in manufacture. In both classes there was ail • increase. The advance to manufactur- ) ers ready for consumption wa9 £20,300,000, and that in manufactures for, fur- r \ ther use £8,300,000. Machinery in its •'' various forms supplied a larger share of' ''J this total of increasing exports than • "! any other single class of products of "', the factory. The group of articles which the Bureau of Statistics l classes as machiiery shfws a growth from £16,000,000 .' in 1910»to £21,000,000 in 1911, hut to ; this may be, added automobiles and parts, '' which alone shows a growth of nearly ; £1.000,000j agricultural implements, h which;'increnecd by nearly £1,000,000, and scientinWnstruments growing £450,- -" 000. ' * ,;,; Australia and New Zealand were : '- amongst the countries which purchased •»( more largely of American manufactures in the last fiscal year than in the pre- ' ceding one. For instance, the tables , ; show that the exports of agricultural '-' implements to those countries' increased
from £200,000 to £350,000. To Europe the shipments of the same class grew from £1,050,000 to £1,500,000; those to Canada from £06,000 to £950.000, and
those to Argentina from £1,250,000 to £1.500,000. There was an immense ex-
pansion in the export of pig coppeT, classed as a manufacture for further use. This item alone shows a gain of £.3,000,000, or 20 p<T cent. over, the total for
the preceding year. Cotton good* increased from £0,000,000 to £8,200.000, typewriters from £1,000.000 to £.1,020,000, and agricultural implements* from £5.000,000 to £7,200,000. The total ex-
ports were the largest recorded in the history of the United States.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 92, 9 October 1911, Page 5
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336AMERICAN EXPORTS. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 92, 9 October 1911, Page 5
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