Show BOOMING ING FOR FOREIGN EIGiN TRAD E thu tho state department lias has a n special appropriation of with which to work for tile the extension of tho foreign commerce of the united states it has hag already taken upp up lari for the expenditure of that bum to the best advantage that tile work of american consuls and other government agents charged charge with fostering c Anic american rican commerce lias has been of some avail i ia indicated by a recent report by the bureau of statistics which finda that while tho the value of the exports 0 of f natural products lias has fallen off luring during the first seven months of 1910 as with tile the hist first seven months of 1909 there was an ii increased exportation of manufactured goods gooda and an increased importation por tation of manufacturer material S LOTS im s wheat flour meat cot 1 toll dpn illuminating oil anc and l copper were tere export exported pd more india rubber hides and skins pi pig t tin 1 tob bacco 0 cotton nitrate of soda copper ore iron ron ore and pig iron were imported this indi cuts thit that t we ire are producing at home more of tile the things which require american I 1 labor tb to fit them for tho the market and we are exporting more finished pro ducts whilo while buying abroad the materials we need with which to make them for the soven seven months we imported goods worth r more fyr r the I 1 arst seven months 0 1009 aad d we exported sported goods kurtli i a guilt over 1900 1909 of 1 |