Exports as Percent of U.S. Non-Agricultural Production

The Fourth Chart is similar in principle to the preceding one. Note, for example, that our civilian aircraft industry exports over 30 percent of its total production.

Strategic Materials From Other Free Nations Are Essential to U.S. Production

The Fifth Chart illustratès how dependent we are upon imports for a variety of critical industrial materials. For example, all of our tin and natural rubber and most of our chromite and manganese ore are obtained from abroad. For 22 of some 39 minerals vital to U.S. industry, the United States depends upon imports for from 50 to 100 percent of its supply. Furthermore, 10 percent of the total of 21⁄2 billion tons of raw materials consumed by U.S. industry each year is imported.

Contribution of Imports to U.S. Food Supplies

The Sixth Chart shows graphically the complete dependence of the United States on imports to provide some of the most common items we consume every day and the high dependence on imports for several others. It is interesting to note that three-fifths of all imports of foodstuffs into the United States are tropical items such as coffee, tea, bananas, cocoa, spices-which are not commercially grown in this country.