Monthly Consular and Trade Reports Volume 337-339 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1908 Excerpt: ...The extension of Brazilian cotton factories is increasing rapidly, and in line with such extension there is a corresponding decrease in importation of certain lines of goods. Unbleached piece goods are almost altogether confined to goods of Brazilian manufacture, the goods of this class now being imported going almost exclusively to portions of the country not served by local mills and to which freight rates from Brazilian points are as great or greater than from Great Britain. Whereas a year ago Brazilian manufacture was confined largely to imitations of foreign weaves, there is a disposition now to inaugurate characteristic Brazilian styles, clinging to imitations of foreign weaves only where it is necessary to retain trade. The local cotton mills are not only the most prosperous portion of the industrial life of the Republic, but they compose so large a portion of its industries that out of a total of $102,818,700 invested in industrial enterprises of all sorts $59,682,900 is devoted to cotton manufacturing. Cotton manufacturing is dominating Brazil's entire industrial life. It is supplying to a great extent the needs of the people of the country in standard goods and is likely to supply such needs more perfectly in the course of the next year when present changes in many of the mills are completed. At the same time the imports of cotton manufactures have increased immensely and are likely to increase as the consuming power of the people becomes greater. The trade is changing, but cotton will continue to be the great single item in Brazil's import trade, averaging nearly one-tenth of the country's total imports. AMERICAN EXPORTERS LACK IN METHOD. The sale of cotton manufactures of the United States in Brazil depends very largely upon the disposition of A...