THE WORLD'S COMMERCE
A year ago maritime nations in tho order of their importance in the foreign carrying trade of tho world ranked as follows'.—Great Britain, Germany, Norway, France, Japan, Italy, Netherlands, Sweden, United States. In tho year the "United States has outstripped Sweden, the Netherlands, and Italy, and drawn up even with Japan. So large a proportion of French ships are employed for military purposes that tho difference between tho tonnage of American and French ships in foreign trade cannot be very great. While merchant shipping under the British flag conducts about half the world's carrying trade, the American increase in tonnage during the past year has been greater than the average annual increase of the British Empire' during the ten years up to June, 1914, which was <103,000 tons.
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Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2717, 11 March 1916, Page 14
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131THE WORLD'S COMMERCE Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2717, 11 March 1916, Page 14
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