1396 MINERALS YEARBOOK, 1941
    FOREIGN TRADE13

 Imports —In the first 9 months of 1941, imports for consumption of
"talc, steatite or soapstone, and French chalk" were 14,908 short tons valued
at $194,511, figures for the entire year cannot be published
 In 1941, as in recent years, nearly all the imports consisted of materials
"ground, washed, powdered, or pulverized, except toilet preparations", only
about 2 percent was of "crude and unground" and "cut and sawed" materials
 The "crude and unground" material imported during the first 9 months of
1941 totaled 223 short tons—130 tons from British India and all but
2 tons of the remamder from China and the Umon of South Africa The "cut and
sawed" varieties imported in the January-September period of 1941 came entirely
from Japan Imports in the "ground, washed, powdered, or pulverized" category
in the first 9 months of 1941 from both France and Italy dwindled to only
a few tons each, imports from Japan proper were slightly greater in the first
9 months of 1941 than in the entire year 1940, but imports from Kwantung
(Japanese-leased territory) appear separately as 3,66g tons m the first 9
months of 1941, whereas they are not itemized in the 1940 record, and imports
from British India ~ ere 1,065 tons in the first 9 months of 1941, with a
value of $12,705 Elowever, declared exports of ground talc from the port
of Karachi in India to the Umted States in the first 6 months of 1941 are
said to have been valued at $76,991 compared with $25,835 in the same months
of 1940 14 Canada was the principal source of this grade of talc, and imports
from that country during the first 9 months of 1941 were slightly greater
than m the entire year 1940

Talc, steatite or soapstone, and French chalk imported for consumption in
the United
States 1937—41 by classes
Year
Crude and
unground

Ground, washed,
powdered, or pul-
verized, except
toilet preparations

Cut and
sawed

T ~
0

Manufactures,
n. S. p. f., ex
cept toilet
preparations


Short
Value
Short
Value

Value

Value

Value
1937        
1938        
1939        
1940        
1941 (Jan.—
Sept.)      
324
337
133
93

223
$7, 644
5,956
2,392
1,479

3, 249
26,379
21,568
25,943
28, 145

14, 614
$423, 032
351,541
408, 178
465,049

180,651
72
129
94
125

71
$11, 799
7,866
14,651
20,739

10, 611
26,775
22,034
26, 170
28,363

14,908
$442, 475
365,363
425,221
487,267

194,511
102
93
98
(1)

(1)
$30, 344
25.835
27,398
21,568

9,915
1 Quantity not recorded.

13 Figures on imports and exports compiled by M. B. Price, of the Bureau
of Mines, from records of the Department of Commerce.
14 Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce, Foreign Commerce Weekly: Vol.
5, No. 7, November
15, 1941, p. 37.