6  SELLING  LATIN  AMERICA

$160,000,000  and  imported  from  them  $250,-000,000.
  Brazil,  in  1913,  imported  $15,000,-000
  in  textiles  alone,  of  which  amount  the
United  States  supplied  only  $500,000.  In  the
same  length  of  time  Argentine  imported  goods
to  the  amount  of  $468,999,996,  of  which
amount  less  than  8  per  cent,  was  supplied  by
this  country.  The  United  Kingdom  exported
to  all  of  Latin  America  $23,500,000  worth  of
coal  in  1913,  the  United  States,  during  the
same  period  of  time,  $750,000.
Practically  the  same  story  in  all  lines  of  exports ­
  could  be  told  of  these  countries,  demonstrating ­
  that  individually  in  nearly  all  cases
the  United  States  is  the  largest  consumer  of
their  raw  or  finished  products  and  the  smallest
exporter  of  the  goods  they  most  require.
Fearful  that  some  one  may  infer  after  looking ­
  at  these  figures  that  European  countries
have  preferential  duties  with  Latin  America,
let  me  state  most  emphatically  that  this  is  not
the  case.  With  one  single  exception  no  favoritism ­
  is  shown  any  of  the  trading  nations,  in
the  matter  of  import  fees,  and  in  that  instance