8 BULLETIN 158, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
EXPORTS OF WOOD PULP. 
Wood-pulp exports in 1917, as shown in Table 13, total 34,695 
tons and were 3 per cent under those in 1916. Shipments were 
largely to Canada, England, Japan, and Argentina. There has 
been a decided acceleration in exports since the beginning of hostili- 
ties in Europe in 1914. A jump was made in the average value per 
ton of export pulp even greater than that in the value of imported 
pulp. The value rose from $59.37 in 1916 to a flat $100 in 1917, 
an advance of 68 per cent. (See Table 13, Appendix.) 
IMPORTS OF NEWS PRINT AND OTHER PAPER. 
A material increase in the imports of news print paper in 1917 
over the imports of the previous year is shown in Table 14. The 
total quantity imported was 1,118,225,912 pounds, an increase of 
19 per cent over 1916. The mathematical average value of the im- 
ported news print in 1916 was 1.98 cents per pound; in 1917 it was 
2.76 cents per pound, an increase for the year of 39 per cent. While 
news print imports increased in 1917, the imports of all other printing 
paper fell off 67 per cent from the year before, and the imports of 
wrapping paper 6 per cent. (See Table 14, Appendix.) 
EXPORTS OF NEWS PRINT AND OTHER PAPER. 
Exports of news print paper in 1917 amounted to 187,780,747 
pounds and were 22 per cent more than those recorded for 1916. 
The exports were equal to 27 per cent of the total imports of news 
print, showing that 83 per cent, or 930,445,165 pounds, of the total 
imports went into domestic consumption. Exports of all other 
printing paper declined 24 per cent in comparison with 1916, and 
exports for wrapping paper 37 per cent. Export figures are shown 
in Table 15, Appendix. 
