TRADE WITH GERMANY

Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume XIX, Issue 6278, 23 July 1921, Page 2

TRADE WITH GERMANY

SOME SIGNIFICANT FIGURES

AMERICA S DEALINGS

EQUAL TO PRE-WAR RECORDS. "The I act i. we are slill tcclmh ally at war with Germany dries not .seem to be any bar to increasingly intimate (rad., relations." says a prominent Amc-

ri.ea.ii impel'. "Germany Is now our third best cn-tomor among the nations of the world, ami im|)oi-|, and export trade is rapidly approaching, and promising to exceed pre-war volumes. M hat ever- may be the general elleet.- of

tlic vi'|):init inns iiui'i's'inciu upon (li'ini.'n I nn! l .'. u s ovulont to i Iu- N«lii>n;il City liimk in New York I li;i L our miUs lo lion connlry in Uin liMiil yr;ir v ill lie iiisrgor limn in a.ny yonr in ilic history m tlin (nulo lin tween tJ’sc* two emmtric

I"1 1<> biink uives m.iiiio inlciv.sliiijr ligims in :i roconl ncwslvl-

A MILLION DO Id. AILS A DAT

Prior to the war we were selling to Germany about d(Hi,lj()n,000dol. worth of merchandise per annum, making the highest- record in Did, dbg,(It’ll,(,)(,)(!(til. having ranged I nun h’bd.OtKMHlOdnl. in DIO up to dbd. 1)00,01 Kldol. ip Did, tt Idle the figures thus lar received on our trade for the fiscal year DIM indicate that tho total of exports to Germany will reach or pevhap., exceed ■UJ0,U0n,()(l0doI. In the nine months ending March, D2I. they wine dld.nuo.(il.ltldol,, or more than t-o any Lurq.pean countries except Great Hr it ain and

France. and were running in recent month* at oxer a million dollars a day. suggest dm Mini the tola! for the ixxelve months ending with June doth -.x ill probably exceed 100,lino.Olirdol.. as againsl the Ingh-wa lei mark o-l d.D.iHlfl.Onndol, in Did. -

On tin 1 i)(i|ior( side tlio total IVoon Germany in llir fiscal year 1921 will ])vol);\lilv amount to about lltf).000.000 tin), against I So.firiO.pOOdul in llm year immediately preceding the war. While nothing can yet bn dntcnninnti to to fhe effect of the proposed tax of 26 per •■nut. cm (In' valtif' of Germany's exports, there is reason Ho believe that the mor- < handiso which she is sending to n.s will total for the fiscal year 1921 about 1(10,6(1(1.()IH)dnl, in value, tlie total for the latest available month, March, Karine been 7,365,(1i')0d01.. as aga.insi (inly E 932 ItfltV.lol. in February, 199], tints

m! lieat mg a rapid growth in onr im ports from Germany.

THE PRINCIPAL EX POUTS'

the principal articles iormitig this newly developing trade with. Germane

are. on the expert side, foods!all's, raw

cotton, copper, and oilier matiulaelnr. iiig material, and mi the import side, eoahlar dyes, pota.-li ehicliy for use as fertilisers, furs, glassware, gloves, musical instruments, sugar-beet seed,-, a

small quantity of beet sugar, toys, wood-pulp, and certain cotton ma.-il-ia,e Litres. Of law emtlou the exports! to Oermany uir the nine months torwhich (ignres are now available were greater than In ally other eoimlrv except the I idled Kingdom, mid aiiMtinled in value (n S7.(l()(Minildol.. copper. i)l ,1)1)0,1)00 pounds. valtirvl at M.IHH).. (’()(ldol,, and only exceeded b v the shipmeuls to Erattee, which wi'l'e 16.(K'O.OUUdol. ; while ol fooi! Iter takings were of flour, wh.eh anmnnted in lie* nine months ending with March to 13.(iOn.Piltvio!.., while, of wheal and flour her takings in the nine months muling with .March were approximately 37.nno.tinndol,

IMPORTS KliO.M OIvRMANV. Of t|km• i:> 1 interest ;i fi■ the figure,s iilc 111< 1 principal ariM'lc- which we are now 1 m)>i>iM iii ; ; from that country. Figures 1 0" the I)«')>:irlniotu of ( oiiiiiiitcc show I lial <;ur imports from Cennauv in the calendar year inclmii'il 8.S I J-A.o(!ociof. worth of nttirilo of potash. 7.nS-|.n(loihi|. of manure salts, iOclol. i'| K":iini 1 ( 1 . n l('i"liiis''i’, .*>. I ;ifj.()(H)<l,il of Ijci'f snyr;))'. I ..KioTlOfldol. hvorlli of coni mr <-n(. t >iir-, mid dvcs, A.Osai.onndol, worth of furs mid LIAO.-1 '■<K;<’,<>!. worth of tow., of wliich dolls and parts i hcrcol were I .n.'d .ililildol