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BULLETIN 1341, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
Wood supplies So per cent of the raw materials which make up the waste paper 
contribution to board manufacture. For these wood materials we import from 
foreign countries the amounts indicated in the preceding and following discussion 
for the various pulps and papers. Our total dependence on foreign countries for 
raw board material is, therefore, in a sense considerably greater than the volume 
indicated for new pulp. Reuse, however, reduces the annual requirements for 
new. material. 
newsprint paper. 
Eighty and twenty per cent represent the average contribution of mechanical 
and sulphite pulps to newsprint paper. Since we import as paper, pulp, or 
pulp wood 56 per cent of the mechanical pulp consumed and 54 per cent of the 
sulphite pulp, it is not surprising to find that a larger percentage of newsprint 
is imported than of any other paper grade. Consumption of newsprint in excess 
of any other paper grade emphasizes the significance of larger imports. 
MILLION 
TONS 
NEWSPRINT CONSUMED, AND fTS SOURCE 
A Total consumption 
* From domestic sources 
° From^Canada 
o From all other countries 
1925 
Fig. 16.— The United States is more dependent upon outside sources for its newsprint than for any other 
grade of paper. Since 1904 Canadian imports in pulp wood, puip, and paper have met nearly all increas&l 
American demands, until now we draw more heavily upon Canadian forests than our own. 
In 1899, little more than two decades ago, 83 per cent of the wood from which 
newsprint was manufactured came from home forests, but this percentage had 
in 1922 dropped to 34. (Table 26.) The only relieving feature is that the 
falling off of materials from American sources is relative only, not actual; the 
amount of domestic wood utilized for newsprint has increased about 450,000 
cords. 
Canada makes the outstanding contribution to our newsprint supplies, a 
total of 50 per cent of the amount consumed, or considerably more than the 
contribution of American forests, while all European countries together supply 
only 11 per cent. We export barely 1 per cent. 
By far the largest imports are newsprint paper, a total of 42 per cent of the 
amount consumed, all but 5 per cent of which is from Canada. Canada, in 
fact, exported to the United States in 1922 nearly S3 per cent of its entire news- 
print production. Imports of Canadian newsprint alone in 1922 exceeded the 
production from American wood, and this in spite of the fact that as recently 
1909 they totaled only 20,000 tons. 
Pulp makes an additional contribution of It per cent, slightly more than 
half of which conn-- from Canada 1 . Increase in pulp imports has been much 
