AMERIAN TRADE WITH

Tuapeka Times, Volume XXXIV, Issue 4869, 29 June 1901, Page 4

AMERIAN TRADE WITH

SCOTLAND.

The Bureau of Foreign Commerce of the United States has just made public advance sheets of tbe ' Commercial Relations for 1900," which deal with American trade with Scotland. Tbe tide of American imports into Scotland, it is stated, steadily rises This is true not only of food products, which are in almost universal demand, but of a variety of manufactured articles. A growing preference for American goods is noted everywhere. Social and economic conditions have not, it is said, been affected by the African war, but it is feared tbat a depression in tbe iron and steel trade, resulting from the high price of raw material and fuel, and from American, German and Belgium competition, will soon be severely felt in industrial communities. - Of a great number of articles now sent to Scotland, the greatest increase, after food stuffs, is in hardware. Wooden-ware has bocured an important position in this market also, and American furniture, boots and • shoes, rubber goods, machinery, and wire goods, leather, oil, clocks and watches, pianos, drugs and chemicals, organs, glassware, confectionery, and a number of other articles are among those rapidly gaining a strong foothold in Scotland.' There has been a growing trade in fruits, meats, and nearly all articles of food.