Show EXPORTS AND IMPORTS I Figures For July and the Last Seven Months Washington Aug 13The monthly statement of imports and exports of the United States shows that during the month of July tile imports of merchandise I merchan-dise amounted to 50C743Co of which 19 571265 was free of duty As compared with July 1S97 a decraso is shown of about 3000000 The exports of domestic merchandise amounted toS 71189742 an Increase In-crease of over 1000000 The gold Imports for July aggregated 261dooO as compared with 923531 for wih July If7 The exports of gold amounted to 1497013 against 5462869 for July 1S > U7 The Imports of silver aggregated 302tf 10J against 2693S64 one year ago The exports during July were 4S797S3 which is practically the same as for July 1897 Eor the last seven months there is shown to have been a decrease of 129 585399 in the Imports of merchandise and an Increase In the exports of 13173t 09f The gold imports during the same time increased In-creased SSS013441 and the exports decreased de-creased 2233SCfi The imports of silver siver 424 decreased 1822193 and the exports 3 381 |