AMERICAN FARM PRODUCTS IN EUROPE

New Zealand Times, Volume LXXI, Issue 4330, 13 April 1901, Page 4 (Supplement)

AMERICAN FARM PRODUCTS IN EUROPE

; The agricultural products i exported /from the United Staten during the five years 1894-98 had an average annual value of 663,536,201. dollars, or about £182,- : 707,240. Of these enormous - exports about 60 per cent., found.a market in the United Kingdom and its various dependencies. The sum paid’ by the British people for the American farm produce purchased during the period mentioned reached as high as 403,953,658 dollars a year. In the five years under consideration the United Kingdom alone took more than one-half of their agricultural exports, the consignments credited to this country forming about 55 per cant, of : the total shipments, and having an aver- : age yearly value of 362,407,7’01 dollars. ‘ Germany, which ranks next to the United Kingdom as a market for "the products of American agriculture, received about 13 per cent, of the exports for 1894-98, the average yearly value amounting to 86,320,274 dollars. France, with purchases that averaged 43,988,791 dollars a yeiar, was the third country in importance. The exports to France, however, formed only about 6.6 per cent, of the total, and were hardly more than half as large as the shipments -to Germany. The shipments’ to Germany,:- on the other band, were less than one-fourth the size of those to the United Kingdom. These three countries —the United Kingdom, Germany, and France —received to-