in 1937 and were not greatly reduced in 1938, when they reached a total of $23,461,000. Imports from New Zealand reached the exceptional value of $22,268,000 in 1937 but dropped off to $6,559,000 in 1938. 1901-1905 1906-1910 | 1911-1915 | 1916-1920 1921-1925 1926-1930 1931-1935 | 1936-1940 0.09167 Figure 35.-Trade of the United States With New Zealand (Not Reported Separately, 1901–05). Table 47.-Principal Commodities in Trade of the United States With New Zealand NOTE. Data for individual export items include only United States products. Import commodities are "general imports" in 1929 and 1932 and "imports for consumption" in 1937 and 1938. Table 47.-Principal Commodities in Trade of the United States With New 1 Figures for 1929 and 1932 have not been adjusted for minor transfers in classifications of later years. 2 Not shown separately. Principal commodities of export to New Zealand in 1938 were petroleum products, agricultural machinery and implements, automobiles, industrial machinery, electrical apparatus, and leaf tobacco, in the order named. Among the items in these leading commodity groups which were smaller in value in 1938 than in 1937 were passenger automobiles, motor trucks and busses, lubricating oil, and radio apparatus, whereas shipments of construction machinery, mining, well, and pumping machinery, tractors, household refrigerators, and gasoline increased substantially. Our imports of practically all commodities in 1938 were decidedly less than the large totals of 1937. The principal import, raw wool, decreased from $9,662,000 in 1937 to $2,025,000 in 1938, and hides and skins declined from $6,662,000 to $2,519,000. Other less impor tant commodities in the trade also showed large relative decreases in quantity and in value. FRENCH OCEANIA French Oceania supplies principally chrome ore to the United Statesa trade that is directly influenced by changes in domestic industrial activity. Imports of chrome ore from French Oceania dropped off from 28,384 tons valued at $927,000 in 1937 to 15,270 tons valued at $389,000 in 1938. Though the United States imports other products from French Oceania (including vanilla beans, mother-of-pearl, and fertilizer materials), the value of these is smaller in the aggregate than that of chrome. Total imports for consumption amounted to $599,000 in 1938 and $1,250,000 in 1937. United States exports to French Oceania include petroleum products, machinery, cigarettes, and a wide range of miscellaneous commodities, all of which are relatively small in value. The aggregate of total exports in 1938 was $582,000, as compared with $707,000 in 1937. WESTERN ASIA The export trade of the United States with Western Asia (Aden, Arabia, Iraq, Palestine, Syria, Iran, and Turkey) has shown a remarkable growth in the past few years, and the increase of 17 percent over the 1937 trade brought the 1938 total to $35,413,000, the highest figure of record. Programs of industrial expansion being carried out by the governments of the several countries in this area, especially by Iran and Turkey, have called for a type of equipment which the United States is in a position to supply. Exploration and development of the petroleum and mineral resources of the area and the construction of roads, railways, and buildings have been largely responsible for the marked increase that has occurred in exports of United States machinery, electrical apparatus, steel manufactures, and automobiles, as well as for the expansion in other commodities. In both 1937 and 1938, exports of aircraft to Turkey were an important item in the trade. United States imports from Western Asia, which also increased substantially during the recent recovery years, were larger in value in 1937 than in 1929. In 1938, however, the value of general imports decreased 22 percent from the 1937 value of $37,201,000, to $29,041,000. A somewhat smaller quantity of Turkish tobacco (the principal United States import from Western Asia) was received in 1938 than in 1937, but a large decrease was shown in our imports of carpet wool. A smaller part of the 1938 imports of tobacco than of the 1937 imports remained in warehouses at the end of the year-a fact which explains the increase in the "imports for consumption" figures shown for tobacco in table 48. Imports of other products, including dates (from Iraq), sausage casings, and rugs, were also smaller in 1938 than in 1937. A statement on United States trade with Turkey in 1938-issued by the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce in February 1939, showing separately the United States trade with that country-may be obtained from the Bureau or any of its district offices. 190841-40-10 Table 48. Principal Commodities in Trade of the United States With Western Asia NOTE. Data for individual export items include only United States products. Import commodities are "general imports" in 1929 and 1932, and “imports for consumption" in 1937 and 1938. Turkey in Europe is included with Turkey in Asia in all years shown. |