THE WORLD'S EXPORT TRADE.

Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXIII, Issue 7959, 25 January 1888, Page 4

THE WORLD'S EXPORT TRADE.

In the German Trade Review of recent date, an interesting picture of the struggle . ■going on between the different nations ior the domination of the world's markets ' was given through calculated percentages •of the increases or decreases of the export trade during the five years 18S0-85. It ia important to note that England has ■«tr«ngthened her position in cotton and sheep s wool yarns and dry coeds, in spite ■of all crises and strikes. The same is the •case with Belgium. Austria occupies the second rank in the above industry, and attains -with 10 per cent, a respectable position in linen yarns. In leather and feather goods the leading states are Germany and France, but while the export of Erance sank from 47.7 per cent, to 38.8 per cent., and that of Germany rose from 27*4 to 33 per cent., the share of Autria went up from 6-9 per cent, to 7-3 per cent. In paper and paper goods England waged a bitter war with the German empire. England's share remained almost without varying at 34"S per cent, while that of Germany rose from 33-8 t040'2 percent. ' The share of Austria increased from S - 7 to 9 -8 per cent., so that the paper industry of the two German speaicins empires covered half the consumption of the world. In glass and glass goods Germany won the ground, the percentage of the former rising from 20 - 6 to 222 per cent., and that of the latter from 19-3 to 22-S per cent. England's percentage remained constant, and that of France and Belgium respectively declined. In iron, steel, and iron and steel goods Great Britian managed to still further develop her supremacy, her share increasing from 64-2 to 66-5 per cent. The share of Belgium rose from O'l to t'6 per cent., while that of Germany declined from 22-4 to 21-9 per cent., that of Austria from 3 - 0 to 2*l per cent. In machines England was similarly victorious, and pushed her exports from 66 - 7 to 69*1 per celt, while those of Germany showed an .- inconsiderable risa from 127 to 13 per cent., and those of France, Bek'uiru, nnd ' Austria decreased, in the cn«e of the last from 2-2 to 1"7 per cent. The total re- ' salts show & decline in the value of the total export trade, which wonW have been occasioned under any circumstance* by the fall of prices. A comparison of the shares of the individual branches of industry iv the total results proves tbat the largest export was of cotton yarn and cotton goods, and amounted to 297 ppr cent. Then came woollen goods with 183 per cent., and finally iron nnd iron and steel goods with 36"3 per cent. While in 1881 65 per cent, of the export fell to the share of the textile industry, 213 per cent, to the iron and machine industry, and 137 to the remaining manufacturers, in 1885 the percentages were 64, 19-5, and 165 respectively for the same branches of the export trade. — BradstreeVs.