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71 Bull. Pan Am. Union 46 (1937)
The World Two-Way Trade Fair

handle is hein.journals/bulpnamu71 and id is 76 raw text is: THE WORLD TWO-WAY TRADE FAIR A NOTHER forward step towards cementing trade relations between Latin America and the United States is taken with the announcement of the plans for the World Two-Way Trade Fair to be held in New York during May 10 to 22, 1937. The officers and directors of the fair include many men of long experience in inter-American relations. Its chairman is MIr. John L. Merrill, president of All America Cables, Inc.; its president is Mr. Louis K. Comstock, president of the Merchants Association of New York, and one of its most active moving spirits; and its vice president is Mr. James S. Carson, also vice president of the American & Foreign Power Company. The fair is a non-profit making venture, supported by the leading foreign trade executives of the United States. It offers, particularly to Latin American countries, a long-needed opportunity to exhibit at a recognized center in the United States the great staple exports of Latin America in such a war as to commend them to American buyers. Exhibit space is being offered to all the Latin American Republics free of charge, and an invitation to make use of the facilities of the fair is being extended through a special committee of the board of directors. In describing the current plans of the fair, 'Mr. Louis K. Comstock, president of the Fair, says: The first international trade fair to be held in America is scheduled to take place in Now York during the month of May 1937. It is proposed by means of this fair to set up an international clearing house for world trade. Naturally, importing belongs very substantially in this picture. What distinguishes this fair from others of its kind is our effort to bring also to this country graphic exhibits of the things we have to buy from other countries. In other words, the fair will impress upon all who see it the fact that international trade can only be carried on on a two-way or triangular basis. There will be official government exhibits from foreign countries, and there will be private exhibits from foreign firms. In both of these categories we have already made sufficient progress to insure a very large foreign participation. Representative committees are being set up for each important country under the authorization of the board of directors, and participation of each country will thus be under a representative group of business men acting for that country with the cooperation of their government. The exhibits will also include travel and tourist attractions, which are vitally important components of the international balance of payments. This is an international enterprise. That its first showing takes place in New York is the accident of birth and the conjunction of favorable circumstances. We look foward to having the World Two-Way Trade Fair become a permanent fixture in American foreign trade, held from year to year during the dates approx- imating the observance of Foreign Trade Week. 46

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