296
Aas
RY
INTERNATIONAL TRADE
(2) 1908-09
Cr. Net Exports 1675
Gold Exports 48
New Loans and )
other items 184
Dr.
Net Imports 1312
Interest 250
Freight 25
Tourists 170
Immigrants’ re-
mittances 150
1907
4907
3) 1911-12
Cr. Net Exports 2188
Gold Exports 8
Interest to
United States 50
New Loans and
other items 100 @ 150
2346 @ 2396
Dr.
Net Imports 1618
Interest 200
Freight 50
Tourists 250
Immigrants’ re-
mittances
250 @ 300
2368 @ 2418
Some of the main debit items are separately stated in the fol-
owing table. In it I not only repeat the figures for those items
which appear in the preceding tables, but add further figures for the
same items. These additional figures have been given at one time
or another in somewhat fragmentary fashion, without any attempt
to incorporate them in systematized balance sheets. They serve
in some sort as checks or corroborations of the more systematic
statements.}
WALTERS-
WELLS HAUSEN PASH KENT
1869 1894 1901 1909 1912
Credit Items: Fresh Loans to United
States 200
Debit Items: Securities Sold in United
States 60
Interest and Dividends 80 95 114 250 200
Freight Payments 24 23 53 25 50
Tourist Expenses 25 47 84 170 250
Immigrants’ Remittances 40 150 250 @ 300
{ The figures in the second column (1894) have been furnished by my colleague,
Professor J. H. Williams, who discovered them in the New York Journal of Com-
merce, July 8, 1895, and the Commercial Chronicle, Vol. 60, p. 2, p. 632. Those
in the third column (1901) are from S. Vv. Waltershausen’s paper on Die Han-
delsbilanz der Vereinigten Staaten (1901).
In view of the scattered sources from which the figures are derived, it is sur-
prising that they agree so well as regards the trend of the several items. The only
striking case of irregularity is Paish’s estimate for freight charges in 1909, which is
andoubtedly too low.