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ters in the interior. The English are the next 
largest investors, followed by the French. 
Colombia in 1913 imported goods to the 
value of $28,535,780 and exported products 
worth $34,315,252. Of these amounts the 
United States shipped her 27 per cent., Great 
Britain 20 per cent, and Germany 14 per cent. 
Colombia shipped us 55 per cent, of her prod 
ucts, to Great Britain 16 per cent, and to Ger 
many 9*4 per cent. Expressed in figures we 
bought from Colombia $18,861,880 and sold 
her $7,629,000. It is obvious that we should 
do a much larger trade with the country, espe 
cially when it is practically next door to us. 
Our trade with her in textiles now is $1,500,000 
against England’s $3,500,000. In this one 
line we should be able to make a 100 per cent, 
increase. 
Colombia exports coffee, gold, emeralds, 
platinum, rubber, tagua nuts, hides, skins, 
feathers, bananas, hats, and requires textiles, 
foodstuffs, flour, kerosene, railway supplies, 
hardware, machinery, medicines, paper, 
metals, wines and liquors.