fabrics used for wings, 70; effect on chemical industry, 58. Algeciras Conference, and open door, 281.
Alien Property Custodian, sale of enemy patents by, 42; value of property taken over by, 317. Alliances, imperialistic interests maintained by, 344; group- ing of European powers in the past, 344 et seq.; in- herent difficulties of, 349. Allied Maritime Council, coun- tries represented in, 255; functions of, 255.
Alsace, taken by Germany in 1871, 11; potash deposits in, 45.
American Air Service, The, by
Arthur Sweetser, cited, 58. American Manufacturers Ex- port Association, work of for export trade, 173. Anglo-Saxon Alliance, not the type of league of nations'' wanted, 348.
Badische Company dyestuffs concerns, 36.
Bagdad Railway, 314, 330. Banca Commerciale Italiana, 319.
Banking facilities, in Great Britain, 159-60.
Bargaining tariffs, defects in provisions for, 185; neces- sity for, 183.
Bartram vs. Robertson, quoted on most-favored nation clause, 193.
Barrett, John, American in- vestments in Mexico esti- mated by, 206, 316.
Bauxite, deposits in the Carib- bean preserved for the Crown, 327-8.
Belgium, industrial effect of devastation of, 80, 81. Bethlehem Steel Corporation, expenditures for improve- ments, 1916, 75.
Benzol, production of, 56; pro- ducts derived from, 57. Berlin Conference, and Congo Basin, 280.
Bismarck, quoted in re Congo,
Bleached cotton cloth, exports of, 70. Bleaching
powder, interna- tional competition likely, 51. Blockade of Germany, Ameri- can industry stimulated by, 21; curtailment of imports due to, 21.
Board of Trade (British), en- couraged concentration of in- dustry, 163; reorganization, 162.
Trade Journal, British, quoted in re German control of non-ferrous metals, 317-9.
Boer War, foreign concessions a cause of, 329. Bolshevism, a symptom of social conditions, 9. Bounties, to assist export trade, 223.
Boycott, economic, justifiable
as a war measure, 319; pro- vision for under League of Nations, 348.
Brailsford, H. N., quoted on German and English increase of armaments, 325; on for- eign investments, 328. Brazil, monazite sand deposits in, 46; monopoly of rubber by, 246.
British Board of Trade Com- mittee on Textile Trades after the War, quoted on Chinese trade, 86.
British Board of Trade Jour- nal, quoted on operations of Inter-Allied Food Council, 255-6.
British Blue Book, cited, 7, 97, 107, 143, 163. British Empire, imports of silk, flax, and hemp, 246; see also Great Britain; self sustain- ing in many raw materials, 245.
Brussels Sugar Convention, 234. Buenos Aires, International Congress at, 235.
Bund der Industriellen, 160. Bureau of Foreign and Domin- ion Commerce, work of for export trade, 174. Bureau of Standards, research work in glass industry, 24. Business organization, German industry advanced by, 36, 160; effect of war on, 99; danger of over production on present scale, 144; promotion of export trade of U. S. by, 158-9; a factor in commerce of Great Britain, 159-60.
Cacao, Ecuadorian crop financed by Americans, 207. Camphor, Japan's monoply of the industry, 30, 245; syn- thetic production of in U. S., 31. Canada, American investments in, 315; anti-dumping law, 150-4, 430-3; plans for ex- port trade promotion, 166; trade war with Germany, 269. Canning, British Foreign Secre- tary, withdrawal of England from Quadruple Alliance ini- tiated by, 345.
Capital, American, use of to establish factories abroad, 205; to develop foreign natural resources, 206; loans to foreign governments, 207; practice of lending to weak governments, 212; rationing of for war purposes, 216; limitation of regulation of,
Carpet mills, cotton duck pro- duced by, 71. Cartels, a factor in German supremacy in chemical in- dustry, 36; use of in market- ing German goods, 160. Cartwright, power loom in- vented by, 15.
Castlereagh, Lord, quoted on Alliances, 345.
Central America, exports of cotton goods from U. S. to, 68.
Central Association of German Manufacturers, 160.
Census of Dyes and Coal Tar Chemicals, cited, 43. Chamber of Commerce of U. S.,
work of for export trade, 173. Chamoisette gloves; see Sueded gloves.
Chemical Foundation Incor- porated, sale of enemy prop- erty to, 42. Chemical industries, German dominance before the war, 33, 80; American industries stimulated by curtailment of imports, 34; cartels a factor in German supremacy, 36; de- mand for war supplies an in- fluence on development of American industry, 49; loss of German export trade, 80; German blockade a stimulus to expansion in other nations, 80-1; see Chapters III and IV.
China, exports from Japan to, 95; foreign concessions in, 331; Japan's demands on, 332, 374-7; need for inter- national supervision, 333; open door, 282. Chlorine, war demand for, 49, 50; peace time uses of, 50; domestic production and im- ports in 1914, 50; expansion of industry, 50, 51; after war competition in, 51.
Chromium, British Empire's lack of, 248; a necessity in the steel industry, 243. Clawson, Frederick A., quoted in re production of sulphuric acid, 52.
Closed Door, in old Colonial sys- tem, 278.
Coal, France an importer of, 88; German mines, 88; Brit- ish supply, 246; U. S. leads the world in output of, 248; world production in 1913; committees to deal with inter- Allied needs of, 257. Cocoa, export tax on, 286. Coke, committees to deal with inter-Allied needs of, 257. Collet, Sir Wilfred, quoted in re exclusive concessions, 328. Colombia, commercial treaty be- tween U. S. and, 193. Colonial expansion, revival of interest in, in 19th century, 279; German aims in estab- lishing industrial colonies, 319-20.
Colonial tariffs, the "closed
door" in the old system, 278; review of European colonial systems, 283-290; the U. S. in the Philippines, 291-3.
Commercial policy, effect of war time control of food and raw material on, 257. Commercial treaties, defects as bargaining policy, 188-9; method of ratification modi- fied, 188. Commission
Internationale de
Ravitaillement, establishment of, 254.
Committee on Commercial and Industrial Policy after the War (British), report of, 163; quoted on essential in- dustries, 247. Competitive conditions, altered by war, 96, 104; as a basis
for tariff, 103-4; unfair prac- tices in foreign trade, 210, 324-5.
Concealed discriminations, ex- istence in laws and regula- tions, 181-2, 306; German against American pork, 181; American law to prevent, 181; unintentional discrim- inations, 182; a subject for international investigation, 182; remedy for, 182, 306; principle of equality of treat- ment nullified by, 305. Concentration in industry, Brit- ish tendencies toward, 82, 162; in Germany, 165. Concessions, and open door, 283, 326; Mexico the land of, 206; in undeveloped regions, 323, 336; political signifi- cance of, 325; in the Congo, 326-7; the British in the Caribbean, 327; Russia in Persia, 330; the "scramble" in China, 330-3.
Congo Free State, and Berlin
Conference, 280; concessions in, 283, 326-7; discrimina- tions in tariff prohibited,
cotton yarn, 126 et seq.; and prices, 128.
Cotton Conversion Costs and Tariff Rates, 422-9. Cotton, raw, U. S. leading pro- ducer, 69, 248; exports to leading foreign countries, 69; shortage in Great Britain in 1918, 85; Egyptian crop commandeered, 85; Japan's source of supply, 246; Egypt, India and other parts of British Empire producers of, 246; inter-Allied committee to deal with the needs for, 256.
Cotton gin, invented by Whit- ney, 15. Cotton goods, increase in ex- ports from U. S., 66-70; de- mand for war supplies, 69; export trade of Great Britain, 85-6; industry in Japan, 91. Cotton yarn, cost of producing, 126 et seq.
Counterfeiting, in international trade, 223. Countervailing duties, provis- ions of Act of 1913, 140; sug- gested legislation concerning,
Cowdray, Lord, concessions in Mexico granted to, 212. Cremer, J. T., quoted in re colonial tariffs, 284.
Cuba, cost of sugar in, 124 et seq.
Customs unions, when justifi- able, 307.
Day, Cline, cited in re Dutch Colonial policy, 284. Democratic Party, tariff policy 1913, 104.
Dernburg, German Colonial Sec- retary, quoted in re colonial tariffs, 287.
Devastation of France and Bel- gium, industrial effect of, 80-1.
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