Abstract of the Census of

Manufactures, cited, 23.
Acetone, uses in warfare, 58;
processes of manufacture,
58-9.

Acid steel, production of in
England, 87.

Ad valorem duties, and under-
valuation, 138; tendency to
abandon, 138; undesirability
of, 138-9.

Africa, partition of, 279.
Agriculture, investment of
American capital in Latin
American Crops, 206.
Airplane production, cotton
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,
280.

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.
Board of Trade Journal,
British, quoted in re German
control of non-ferrous metals,
317-9.

of

Boer War, foreign concessions
a cause of, 329.
Bolshevism, a symptom
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,

217.

Capital Issues Committee, ra-
tioning of capital by, 215.
Caribbean Archipelago, ex-
clusive concessions and the
open door in, 327-8.

Carnegie Institution, research
work in glass industry, 24.

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,

288.

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,

141.

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.