Identifier: crockeryglassjou78newy (find matches)
Title: Crockery & glass journal
Year: 1875 (1870s)
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Subjects: Pottery Glass Glassware
Publisher: New York : G. Whittemore & Co.
Contributing Library: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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s. Nevertheless, the markets of thosecountries are still growing ones for practically every ar-ticle of manufacture utilized by the people of Europe orNorth America; and even the development of local in-dustries in those countries, while in some cases changingthe proportion of manufactured goods imported, meansthe calling for a larger variety of them, and in manycases a larger quantity, through the development of thoseindustries. Now, what is the position of the United States in theimport trade of South America? The total value of theexports from all hands to the countries of the SouthAmerican continent at the present time approximates onebillion dollars. We have made great strides in our export trade withSouth America in the past ten years. With all of LatinAmerica recent figures show that growth in the value ofexports from this country has increased 183 per cent, inthis period. To Argentina alone at the present time we are sendingfour times as much goods as we did in 1903; to Brazil
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