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:: Introduction

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20 Modern Business Geography Why England excels in cotton manufacturing. The cotton imports of the United States come mainly from England. That country owes her leadership in the cotton industry to certain decided advantages: (1) She was the first to manufacture cotton goods. Hence she early obtained a wide market, which she has largely retained, in spite of her rivals. She has a large supply of both skilled and unskilled labor. Her colonies have needed great quantities of cotton goods and have preferred to buy from the home country rather than elsewhere. England’s shipping has been adequate to carry her goods every- where. In this respect no other country has been so well pro- vided. The cotton factories of Great Britain are located where the com- bined cost of transportation for raw material and fuel is lower than in any other part of Europe, and as low as in most parts of the United States. The mills are located largely in the county of Lancashire. As Lancashire lies just east and north of Liverpool, raw cotton is readily received from Amer- ica through that port or through Manchester, which is con- nected with Liverpool by a ship canal. Coal of the best quality is mined close to the manufacturing district. The climate of Lancashire is uncommonly favorable. It is very healthful for the workers, and the prevailing southwest winds bring air that is damp enough for spinning. (5) Because of all these advantages, no other part of the world makes so much cotton cloth of all kinds as does the English manufacturing district. Our tariff on cotton goods. The higher wages and higher prices of all commodities in this country give England and other countries of western Europe an advantage over the United States in the manu- facture of cotton goods. They could undersell us if there were competition on equal terms. Accordingly, our government has long helped the home industry by imposing a tax, or tariff, upon nearly all imported cotton goods. In the tariff established in 1922, the duty ranged from 20 per cent of thé value for cotton thread to 40 and even 75 per cent of the value for cotton gloves, hose, quilts, and laces. In spite of this duty, cotton goods were imported annually to values which sometimes exceeded $100.000.000.

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