FOREIGN MARKETS FOR TRACTORS.
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It is claimed that American manufacturers have been more successful than those of other countries in developing at practical and .serviceable tractor, anti that .Amerieen 'machines, consequently, predominate in almost. •every country where tractors an employed. During the last five-years the Ameriean export trade in tractors has expanded rapidly, the United States. having last
year shipped more than 50,000 machines to foreign countries.
With the object of further assistingIn the development of the export trade in American tractors, the U.S. Department of Commerce has -recently issued.
Wepage bulletin dealing with the tract4i. -situation in more than 70 dif-"ferent foreign markets. Among the important factors considered are topo
graphical features, purchasing powers, uses to which tractors may be nut and types required, fuels available, local manufacture (if any)., imports, and competitive conditions.
Interested British makers can oh"tam copies of the _bulletin (No. 505) for (id. in stamps from the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, U.S.A.