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Modern Business Geography
The proportion of raw materials for manufacturing among our exports
‘Table III) has not decreased ; this is because of the great quantities of
raw cotton that we send abroad. How have the southern farmers been
able to supply both the European markets and our own increasing num-
ber of cotton mills? How is the boll weevil changing this state of
affairs ?
11. Write a paragraph as to the way in which the industrial growth of our
country is affecting the character of our exports.
C. The change in the destination of goods exported by the United States.
I. Turn back to Problem D, page 297. Compare the headings of that
problem and this. Try to change the wording of that problem so
that it will apply to Table III instead of Table II. Find out
whether your statement of the present problem is clear, by giving the
questions that you have framed to one of your classmates.
2. Why have our exports to Europe increased relatively little?
3. What figures in Table IIT answer the question :—Why have we intro-
duced Spanish courses in many high schools and courses in commercial
Chinese in our colleges?
D.
How the United States can keep pace with the manufacturing exporters
of Europe.
About 80 per cent of the total exports of Great Britain, Germany, France,
Belgium, and the Netherlands are manufactured products. These coun-
tries preserve their commercial leadership by following as many as possi-
ble of the policies mentioned below :
(¢) Maintaining merchant marines. (d) Granting subsidies to shipping
(b) Encouraging foreign investments concerns.
and banks. (e) Holding foreign colonies.
(¢) Establishing commercial schools.
Explain how each of those policies helps in obtaining customers for
manufactures.
E. How the United States government helps in foreign commerce.
'. Find out in what ways American consuls assist American business firms
in foreign commerce. How many American consular offices are there?
[n what continent are they most numerous?
Find out the purpose of the Pan-American Union. Why is our Bureau of
Foreign and Domestic Commerce interested in its success?
