| | || | | “Other | | ||Portugal, | | British | | ||including: | | East Indies”| 19| 13,071||France | 61| 21,160 | | || | | Panama | 37| 40,614|| | | | | || | | Peru | 1,827| 1,488,516||Siam | 12| 8,583 | | || | | Portugal | 27| 17,760|| | | | | || | | Salvador | 40| 60,042||Unaccounted for | 157| 142,981 | | || | | Siam | 11| 8,583|| | | | | || | | Unaccounted | | || | | for | 145| 142,981|| | | +------+-----------++ +------+----------- |11,750|$11,552,218|| |12,882|$11,552,218 ------------+------+-----------++-----------------+------+----------- Unhindered by other governments, this country would have imported even larger quantities of ore, because of its paying higher prices and being more liberal regarding impurities. The table shows that the United States imported 36 per cent. of the tungsten output of the world; this amount added to the domestic output makes a total of 17,921 tons, or 50 per cent. of the world’s production. Owing to the lag in shipments from South America and China the South American ores received in January and February were from the output of 1917, as were the Chinese ores arriving up to the end of March. Subtracting the ores arriving from the two regions during the first two and three months, respectively, of 1918, and adding the ores arriving during a like period in 1919, make the quantity of ore controlled by the United States in 1918 (as shown on page 153) equivalent to 21,131 tons of concentrates carrying 60 percent. WO₃, or 59 per cent. of the world’s production. These ores were all controlled through the private initiative of American firms who offered better prices and better terms than could be obtained abroad. Probably a larger proportion could be handled in the future, should interference not come from within our own borders. It is now proposed to put a tariff of $10 a unit on tungsten ores without regard to purity or quality, with a correspondingly high tariff of $1 a pound, plus the 15 per cent. ad valorem duties now in force, on metal in any form--element, alloy or salt; and such a bill has passed the House of Representatives. Its advocates believe that the price, now about $7 a unit in New York, will be raised to $17 a unit.