Zollhandbuch für die Ausfuhr nach Rußland 1906-1917

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Identifikator:: 100638653X

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-39121

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Title:: Zollhandbuch für die Ausfuhr nach Rußland 1906-1917

Edition:: Vierte neu bearbeitete Auflage

Place of publication:: Berlin

Publisher:: Deutsch-Russischer Verein

Year of publication:: 1912

Scope:: 1 Online-Ressource (XVI, 592 Seiten)

Digitisation:: 2017

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Verzeichnisse der Arzneimittel und Präparate, deren Einfuhr durch Entscheidungen des Kaiserl. Russischen Medizinalrates und des Veterinärkomitees erlaubt bezw. verboten ist

Collection:: Economics Books

nN 2 5 Modern Business Geography RAW MATERIAL IMPORTED BECAUSE THE HOME SUPPLY, THOUGH LARGE, IS NOT SUFFICIENT The United States produces great quantities of raw sugar, hides, wool, and other raw materials, bit the demands of the country are so large that still more is needed. Why we import raw sugar. The use of sugar has increased faster in the United States than in any other country except Great Britain. Here is the average consumption per person in the United States for certain years : 1870 . . . 33 pounds 1890 . . . 51 pounds 1910 . . . 80 pounds 1880 . . .39pounds 1900 . . . 59 pounds 1920 . . . 91 pounds With about one sixteenth of the world’s inhabitants, we consume one fifth of all the sugar. This fact shows how enormous is our buy- ing power. It also shows how much we spend for luxuries, for a large part of the sugar is used in candy and confectionery. The sugar-cane plantations of Louisiana and Texas, and the sugar- beet farms of Colorado, Utah, California, Michigan, and other states, yield only about a quarter of the raw sugar needed by our refineries; the Hawaiian Islands, Porto Rico, and the Philippine Islands yield nearly half. The rest must be imported from foreign countries, chiefly Cuba, which lies at our very door. The home production of sugar beets can be greatly increased, but whether this pays or not depends on whether our tariff and the consequent price of sugar are high enough to keep out the sugar of India, Germany, Cuba, Russia, and the other great producers. Why hides and skins are imported and where they come from. An enormous quantity of leather, in such forms as shoes, gloves, belts, suitcases, coats, and the upholstery of chairs and automobiles, is consumed in the most progressive countries. Our country probably consumes more per person than any other. Each year we make more than a billion dollars’ worth of leather and leather goods. It is no wonder, then, that the hides supplied by our cattle, cows, and horses, and the skins from our sheep and goats. are insufficient to supply the needs of American tanneries. Every year foreign countries supply the American market with one or two hundred million dollars’ worth of hides and skins. Nearly every country in the world sends at least a few tons. Poor and backward countries with scanty pasturage, such as India and Mexico, send great quantities of goat skins, for the goat thrives under conditions that

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