Economic and financial section > Agricultural crisis > Volume 1

URUGUAY.
M. Socrates RODRIGUEZ
Director of Agricultural Economic and Statistical Department, Ministry of Industry.
Foreign Trade.
The foreign trade of Uruguay springs almost entirely from agricultural and animal
production and its dependent industries.
The following table shows this clearly:
Proportional Export Values by Categories, 1925-1929.
Category
1925
1926
1927
1928
1929
Cattle-raising and dependent industries
Agriculture and dependent industries .
Mining industries
Various
Provisions for shipping
Total
88.81
8.60
1.88
0.67
0.04
100.00
91.36
6.05
2-37
0.19
0.03
100.00
88.38
6.67
4-91
0.01
0.03
100.00
81.47
13.66
4-50
o-35
0.02
100.00
84-53
9.94
5-33
0.22
0.18
100.00
Satisfactory progress in the index figures for agriculture is shown from 1924 onwards
in the proportions corresponding to each category of exports. This indicates an appreciable
increase, and proves that agriculture is growing steadily and progressively.
Import and Export Values, 1925 to First Quarter of 1930.
Year
Imports:
assessed at Customs
valuation
Exports:
assessed at market
value
Total
1925
1926
1927
1928
1929
1930 1 (first quarter)
Peso
73,357.377
74,111,631
81,829,873
93,729,483
94,720,353
44,023,094
Peso
98,853,683
94,303,586
96,418,695
101,203,145
92,736,286
64,578,609
Peso
I72,2II,o6o
168,415,217
178,248,568
194,932,628
187,476,639
108,601,703
1 Provisional figures.