Modern business geography

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Identifikator:: 1830562916

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

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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

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The Contrast between Asia and Australia 321 and write after each product your estimate of how much is consumed locally and how much’ is available for export. Your table may begin hike this: ProbucCT Tea Rice Jute . . - Tin PERCENTAGE Pro- DUCED IN ASIA LocaL CONSUMPTION Large Very large Moderate Very slight AMOUNT AVAILABLE For EXPORT Much Some Much, because the com- merce and industry of Asia are relatively in- active. Practically all, because Asia does little manufac- turing of iron goods. 33. Divide the products of your list into the following classes, and decide which classes contain the most products available for export: (a) foods. (b) fibers, (c) metals, (d) fuels, (e) other raw materials. Compare your list with Table IV (page 308) to see which of these products the United States imports in appreciable amounts. The products that Asia exports. The chief exports from Asiatic countries and their approximate annual values are as follows: Pronuier Raw Rubber Raw ("~*ton Raw Silk + Manufactured Jute . Vlanufactured Cot- ton ce. Oil (chiefly coconu Tea VaLuE (Approximate) Over 3250,000,000 each 200,000,000 to 250,000,000 each Probnrica Jute . . . . . I'm . . . . . Sugar . . . . . Rice . . . . . ides and Furs . Manufactured Silk Tobacco . Beans . . Petroleum VALUE (Approximate) 3150,000.000 each 100,000.000 each 35. How does this list compare with the list which you made in Exercise 32? 36. What countries are commercially important to the rest of the world because they furnish the exports listed above? 37. Why is Asia more important as a source of raw materials than of food ? 38. Why does it furnish less food for other countries than do regions like southern South America and Canada, where the number of people en- caged in raising food is not a tenth as great as in Asia?

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