The foreign trade of the United States; its character, organization and methods . st 32 per cent in 1900, per cent in 1870. Finished manufactures occupiedthe same relative position in 1914 as in 1900, constituting24 per cent of our imports in both years. Relatively the importation of foodstuffs decreased dur-ing the period, though their value increased from $231,-CHDo,ooo in 1900 to $476,000,000 in 1914. As late as 1890foodstuffs constituted a third of all imports; by 1914 theyhad fallen to one-fourth the total. The importation offoodstuffs per capita changed little; even as far back a
The foreign trade of the United States; its character, organization and methods . st 32 per cent in 1900, per cent in 1870. Finished manufactures occupiedthe same relative position in 1914 as in 1900, constituting24 per cent of our imports in both years. Relatively the importation of foodstuffs decreased dur-ing the period, though their value increased from $231,-CHDo,ooo in 1900 to $476,000,000 in 1914. As late as 1890foodstuffs constituted a third of all imports; by 1914 theyhad fallen to one-fourth the total. The importation offoodstuffs per capita changed little; even as far back as DEVELOPMENT OF FOREIGN COMMERCE 23 1870 we imported $4 per capita; in 1914 the per capitaimportation of foodstuffs was $ The increase percapita was more than offset by the rise in prices. In theperiod between 1870 and 1900 the population doubled;that is, it increased 100 per cent. In the same period theimportation of foodstuffs increased only 54 per cent. It is only since 1900 that the importation of foodstuffshas increased out of proportion to the growth in 1890 1900 1910 1914 1880 INCREASE IN UNITED STATES EXPORTS OF MANUFACTURES, 1880-1914Showing the percentage mantifactures fonned of all exports at different periods This is due not to a decrease in the production of foodstuffsfor home consumption, but to an increase in the use of suchtropical and semitropical products as tea, coffee, cocoa,sugar, fruits, and nuts. For instance, our consumption ofraw sugar rose from 40 pounds per capita in 1880 to 50pounds in 1890, and to 59 pounds in 1900, and 89 pounds in1914. Summary.—The foreign trade of the United Statesincreased from $152,000 in 1810 to $4,258,000,000 in 1914,or about twenty-eight fold. In the same period the popu-lation increased from 7,200,000 to 98,200,000, or aboutfourteenfold. Our foreign trade, then, has increased attwice as great a ratio as our population, the per capita in-crease being from $21 in 1810 to $43 in 1914. Between1914 and 1918,
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