TABLE 4.-EXPORTS OF PRINCIPAL ARTICLES FOR WHICH QUANTITY DATA ARE AVAILABLE, 1910-14 AVERAGE, 1921-22, AND 1922-23, SHOWING INFLUENCE OF PRICE ON TOTAL VALUE. to 1923 to 1923 Grains and flour: 1,000 pounds.. 6,554, 516 29, 523, 089 22, 414, 309 1,000 dollars.. 143,451 581,856 445,012 649,508 493,126 +243.7 -24.1 441,562 Meats: 1,000 pounds.... 1,321,454 2,179,087 2,256,654 1.000 dollars... 147,026 289,466 304, 254 239,700 248, 232 Iron and steel: +63.0 +3.5 297,878 1,000 tons. 1,000 dollars.. 2, 164 84, 048 1,663 114, 187 1,626 117, 226 64, 616 63, 175 Sugar: -23.2 -2.3 111,641 1,000 pounds. 70, 988 2,002, 039 749, 855 1,000 dollars.. 2,969 77, 495 41,003 83, 685 31,344 +2,718.6 -62.6 28, 494 Tobacco, leaf: 1,000 pounds.... 388, 284 451, 888 229,472 1,000 dollars.. 44, 686 156, 773 77,846 54, 227 27,537 +21.3 -49.3 79,397 Cotton, raw: 1,000 bales.. 1,000 dollars.. 8, 532 551,890 6,542 596, 379 5,066 658,983 423,257 327,757 -23.4-22.7 461,817 Cotton cloth: 1,000 square yards'. 1,000 dollars... 298, 574 613,053 541, 156 55, 175 48,740 -103.9 -12.7 67,645 Lumber: 1,000 feet... 1,000 dollars.. 2, 221, 261 1,542, 690 1,554, 071 50,686, 52,674 68,651 Stated in yards prior to January, 1922. 35, 173, 35, 434|| -30.7 +.1 52,838 TABLE 4.-EXPORTS OF PRINCIPAL ARTICLES FOR WHICH QUANTITY DATA ARE AVAILABLE, ETC.-Continued. to 1923 to Coal, bituminous: 1,000 tons.. 1,000 dollars. 1923 13,750 13,036 15,954. 32,950 39,885 -5.4 +22.0 82,961 Mineral oil, refined: 1,000 gallons... 1,553,330 2,421,380 2,821, 437 1,000 dollars. 110,514 304, 249 324,482 169, 497 197,006 +53.3 +16.2 352,680 Copper, refined: 1,000 pounds. 1,000 dollars.... 802,472 677,487 124,402 89,257 630, 734 101,623 94,610 -18.4 -7.0 82,626 Oil cake and meal: 1,688,021 1,099,245 1,040,024. 1,000 pounds... 1,000 dollars... 23,645 22,771 22,719 15,389 14,560 -38.5 -5.4 20,800 Total (1,000 dol- 1,344,824 2,429, 956 2, 339, 108 1, 924, 8001, 621, 406 +20.6 -15.82,080,339 Average for copper is average of years 1912-13 and 1913-14. TABLE 5.-IMPORTS OF PRINCIPAL ARTICLES FOR WHICH QUANTITY DATA Value at 1910-14 1910-14 1921-22 1922-23 Per cent of in- Value of 1922-23 quantities at 1921-22 prices. 1910-14 1922 Sugar: 4,341, 0588, 464, 329 8,422, 483 Rubber, crude: 1,000 pounds. 105, 736 1,000 dollars.. 86, 345 568, 381 Coffee: 365, 101 194, 679 193,727 +87.1 -0.5 199,607 797,655 169, 108 466,073 654,077 +657.5 +40.3 119,648 1,000 pounds. 899, 339, 1, 238, 012 1,305, 188 181, 639 136, 181 143, 571 +41.5 +5.0 156,623 Hides and skins: 1,000 pounds.. 531,636 392, 904 682,886 1,000 dollars.. 104, 582 78, 899 140, 392 78,581 Silk, raw: 136,577 +30 5 +73.8 136, 577 1,000 pounds... 1,000 dollars.... 23,779 77,058 48, 179 52,684 300, 445, 405,796 156,100 160, 695 +108.5 +2.0 328,746 TABLE 5.-IMPORTS OF PRINCIPAL ARTICLES FOR WHICH QUANTITY DATA ARE AVAILABLE, ETC.-Continued. 1,000 dollars. 14,631 49,608 74, 191 27,453 39,392 +169.2 +43.4 71,184 Tin for blocks, pigs: 1,000 pounds.. 106, 134 100, 429 151,941 1,000 dollars.... 41,511 28,980 53,400 39,167 59,257 +42.7 +51.2 43,911 Copper, crude, refined, and scrap: 1,000 pounds.. 276,065 274, 182 527,695 1,000 dollars... 37,016 33,016 73,596 35, 644 48,600 +31.3 +36.4 63,323 Total above items: 1,000 dollars..... 1,000 pounds....8,340, 532 16,041, 067 18, 726, 712 708, 662 1,204,087 1,933, 757 1,355, 920 1,759, 458 +148.2 +29. 71,510,073 பட Part II.-ADMINISTRATIVE WORK OF THE DEPARTMENT. For the detailed administrative work of the various bureaus, I especially commend the statements of the bureau heads, contained in Part V of this report, as showing great progress in fact and in zeal during the fiscal year. Aside from the routine work, a number of the special and more important services undertaken during the fiscal year are particularly referred to below. Foreign-Trade Promotion. The year under review has been one of marked expansion in the activities of the department in promotion of American trade abroad. The Director of the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce informs me that during the fiscal year the services of the bureau have been called upon in actual transactions of export business totaling more than 400 millions of dollars. Some conception of the volume of service called for is indicated in the fact that the number of specific inquiries and requests for assistance in foreign-trade matters received by the department are now averaging in excess of 3,000 per day, or approximately four times the average number received at the time the reorganization of this service began. In addition to the vast amount of regular work carried on by the bureau, special surveys have been made during the fiscal year, in cooperation with special committees of the various trades, of markets in all parts of the world for American export commodities. At a time when the economic position of the farmer has been such as to render the agricultural problem in all its phases a matter of deep concern to the Administration, the department has been enabled, through the reorganization of its foreign service and directing staff in Washington, to render especial service in the promotion of export trade in agricultural products. In the regular course of its work it has maintained a specialist in food marketing in Europe, which takes 80 per cent of our agricultural shipments, reporting constantly by cable upon food requirements in the various countries. Particularly in 14 " the marketing of products of cooperative assoartment has been able to render a great deal of : Agricultural Products. conferences held with committees representing ations, farm cooperatives, and exporters was a c that the department undertake to make world ain of the principal agricultural products, which them more accurately to estimate the world situaeduction, stocks, and consumption in these commodie to time. Such surveys have been started with seci, sugar, and rice; while frequent surveys of grain, and other commodities are made by the department's sives in Europe (which is the principal foreign maraese products), and transmitted to the department by o distribution to producers, exporters, and the interested n this country. world surveys on cotton, wool, sugar, and rice have been ed periodically and have given in brief summarized form facts as to estimated world production, estimated world camption, and world stocks on hand. It is obviously not a oper function for the department to attempt to interpret these Sistical tabulations, or to forecast future probable world prodiction or consumption. The purpose of the surveys is solely to have an independent source give a purely fact analysis of the world situation in these commodities at a given time. The value of such facts to producers and exporters is indicated by the increasing demands for the permanent continuance of the surveys. Foreign-Trade Statistics. The transfer of the Bureau of Customs Statistics from the Treasury to the Commerce Department on January 1, 1923, and its subsequent reorganization, have effected a great improvement in the service of foreign-trade statistics to the commercial public. As a result of the increased equipment and personnel provided from the deficiency appropriation, the issue date of the reports has been advanced about two weeks, and since May the import reports have been completed simultaneously with those for exports. The preliminary totals are now completed by the 13th of each month, the reports by articles and countries by the 20th. and copy for the import and export statements in the Monthly Summary is now ready for the printer by the 24th. de Special monthly statements have been inaugurated showing countries for of the principal articles in the im |