Exports and Imports to and from the Belligerent Countries, 1914.
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Exports and Imports to and from the Belligerent Countries, 1914.—The following figures are taken from the “Statistical Abstract of the United States, 1915.”
Exports to— Imports from—
Austria-Hungary 1913 1915 $23,320,696 1,238,669 $19,192,414 9,794,418
France 1914 1915 159,818,924 369,397,170 141,446,252 77,158,740
Germany 1914 1915 344,794,276 28,863,354 189,919,136 91,372,710
Italy 1914 1915 74,235,012 184,819,688 56,407,671 54,973,726
Russia 1914 1915 31,303,149 60,827,531 23,320,157 3,394,040
United Kingdom 1914 1915 594,271,863 911,794,954 293,661,304 256,351,675
Canada 1913 1914 1915 415,449,457 344,716,081 300,686,812 120,571,180 160,689,790 159,571,712
The table shows that the normal trade with Germany was the largest next to that with the United Kingdom, and that Germany took more of our products than Canada. It shows that Germany was not only one of our best customers but that the balance of trade was largely in our favor, the excess of American exports to Germany over imports in 1914 amounting to $154,875,140, or nearly as much as our entire exports to France in 1914.
The following table shows how the British arbitrary rule of the seas cut down our trade with the Scandinavian countries, all but that of Norway, whose neutrality was largely in favor of England. The figures are for the nine months ending March.
1915 1916
Denmark, exports and imports $63,103,962 $44,046,752
Netherlands, exports and imports 101,892,382 72,469,008
Norway, exports and imports 32,401,556 37,259,135
Sweden, exports and imports 65,880,749 43,156,027