Table 30.-Percent Increase or Decrease in Foreign Trade, by Continents and by Leading Countries, 1926-37

Table 31.-Foreign Trade With Each Continent, by Economic Classes, Total and Agricultural, 1926-38

Table 31.-Foreign Trade With Each Continent, by Economic Classes, Total and Agricultural, 1926-38-Continued [Millions and tenths of millions of dollars]

The agricultural data are included in the total figures, which also include nonagricultural commodities. For economic class totals see table 7.

The total figures include wines, fruit beverages, and alcoholic spirits; the agricultural figures include wines and fruit beverages, but exclude alcoholic spirits.

1928-30 average; data not available prior to 1928. The following are the annual average exports to North America in the period 1926-30 in millions and tenths of millions of dollars: total, unadjusted 1,177.0; adjusted, 1,113.5; crude materials, 176.6; crude foodstuffs, unadjusted 115.1; adjusted, 51.6; manufactured foodstuffs, 100.2; semimanufactures, 161.8; finished manufactures, 623.3. Imports from North America were as follows in 1926-30: total, 940.2; crude materials, 180.2; crude foodstuffs, 144.5; manufactured foodstuffs, 202.8; semimanufactures, 184.1; finished manufactures, 228.6.

Less than $50,000.

• Especially in 1926-30, and again in 1937 and 1938, large quantities of United States grain were shipped through Canada (mostly via Montreal) to other foreign countries. Since the final destination is customarily not known when shipped, this grain is reported as an export to Canada; but as a matter of fact, practically all of it except some of the corn annually goes thence to Europe. In these adjusted figures, the reported total value of exports is adjusted on the assumption that all this grain was destined for Europe-an assump tion adopted for convenience and involving only a small margin of error.

7"General imports" through 1933; "imports for consumption" thereafter.

Table 32.-Percentage of Each Economic Class in the Adjusted Exports to North America and to Europe, 1926-38

Total.

Crude materials.

100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0

Foodstuffs and beverages.

Semimanufactures.

Finished manufactures..

100.0 34. 1 37.2 32.7 25.5 22.2 17.4 12.6 23.7 14.0 14.2 21.3 16.8

50.7

53. 1

29.7 31.3 33.4 34.0

Agricultural.

Nonagricultural..

12.3 13.6

87.7 86.4

41.3

44.7

58.7

55.3