Modern business geography

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Identifikator:: 1830562916

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-217337

Document type:: Monograph

Author:: Huntington, Ellsworth http://d-nb.info/gnd/117070092; Cushing, Sumner W.

Title:: Modern business geography

Place of publication:: New York [usw.]

Publisher:: World Book Company

Year of publication:: 1930

Scope:: VIII, 352 S.; Ill., graph. Darst.

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Part four. The field of consumption

Collection:: Economics Books

“06 Modern Business Geography MEXICO AS A MARKET Although Mexico contains twice as many people as Canada, its value to us as a market in many years has been only one tenth as great. This is partly because people living under a mild climate like that of Mexico are not so ambitious and energetic as the Canadians. Another reason is that among the Mexican people about two fifths are Indians, two fifths mixed Indian and white, and only one fifth white. Again, the adjoining portions of the United States and Mexico are arid and thinly populated. Although the two countries are connected by both railroads and steamship lines, there is not a close enough relation to overcome the barriers of race and language. Misunder- standings due to these barriers have often led to serious disagreements that have hindered trade for long periods. Moreover, the Spaniards, the merchants of Mexico, seem to prefer to trade with Europeans rather than with Americans. With proper planning, however, we might sell to Mexico almost everything she wants. At present only half of her imports come from the United States. THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS AS A MARKET When the Philippine Islands were acquired by the United States in 1898, many people predicted that they would become a large market for our products. These persons did not realize that nearly a million of the twelve million Filipinos are primitive people who use almost nothing from outside their forest homes, and that the wants of most of the remainder are few and simple. During the thirty years and more of American occupation of the Philippines, the process of educating the inhabitants has gone on constantly, principally through an efficient system of public schools. Every step in advance has meant a higher standard of living, greater home production, and a greater market for foreign imported goods. [n 1928, the Philippine imports had risen to ten dollars a person. This is small compared with the Canadian figure of nearly one hundred dollars, but it is many times larger than it was before the United States was in control. Up to 1909, imports from the United States to the Philippines had to compete on equal terms with those from other countries, and con- sequently our trade made only slow headway. The manufacturing countries of western Europe had the advantage of being nearer to the islands than those of the northeastern United States. In 1909, however, free trade, with slight limitations, was established between

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