MINERAL PRODUCTS. 
21 
The following statistics of zinc exports from the principal zinc- 
smelting countries of Europe have been taken from the official pub 
lications of the countries concerned and are given for 1912 because 
official figures for 1913 are not available for all the countries: 
Zinc exports in 19Í2 from Germana, Belgium, France, and Great Britain, in 
short tons. 
To- 
Canada 
Mexico 
Central America and West 
Indies 
South America 
Africa 
Australia and New Zealand. 
Asia, Japan, and East In 
dies 
From 
Germany. 
Slabs 
and 
sheets. 
280 
4,018 
Galva 
nized 
iron. 
4,370 
1,758 
6,128 
From 
Belgium. 
Slabs 
and 
sheets. 
2,903 
2,115 
202 
4,807 
9,288 
2,547 
5,950 
Galva 
nized 
iron. 
97 
8,835 
00 
5,440 
27,908 14,438 
From 
France. 
Slabs 
and 
sheets. 
5,280 
15,328 
8,502 
29,110 
Galva 
nized 
iron. 
837 
5,201 
2,113 
58,514 
1,282 
13,708 
81,715 
From Great 
Britain. 
Slabs 
and 
sheets. 
4,152 
4,017 
Galva 
nized 
iron. 
29,398 
1,319 
4,812 
123,203 
71,592 
143,525 
287,300 
001,209 
Total. 
Slabs 
and 
sheets. 
4,190 
2,115 
202 
10,457 
28, 031 
2,547 
24,330 
72,475 
Galva 
nized 
iron. 
29,398 
2,150 
10,170 
138,581 
130,100 
144,807 
308,272 
703,550 
The foregoing table shows a foreign market for over 72,000 tons 
of zinc, of which about 30,000 tons consists of spelter in slabs and 
the remainder of zinc sheets. The American zinc industry should 
stand an excellent chance to take over the trade in zinc slabs and 
such part of the trade in zinc sheets as American zinc-rolling mills 
can furnish. The trade in galvanized-iron sheets is dominated by 
Great Britain, which controls 87 per cent of the total export trade 
in that commodity with the four countries concerned. In addition to 
smelting over 65,000 tons of spelter in her own plants Great Britain 
in 1913 imported 150,000 tons, presumably used chiefly in making 
her enormous output of galvanized iron. It would seem that any 
expansion in Great Britain’s foreign trade either in spelter and 
zinc sheets or in galvanized iron would entail the importation of 
more spelter from the United States. This country therefore has 
the opportunity to furnish the major part of 222,000 tons of spelter 
a year as long as the war lasts, together with whatever part of the 
spelter for the galvanized-iron trade of the southern continents and 
Asia it can acquire. The first demands will naturally come from 
Great Britain, and according to reports they have already begun. 
With the end of the war, however, the continental smelters will begin 
to compete strongly for that trade. The southern continents and Asia 
are therefore more likely to become steady outlets for our zinc 
products, and by the time the war closes American zinc should have 
obtained a permanent foothold in those markets, sufficient to take 
care of the surplus smelter capacity of the United States.