Show APRIL STATEMENT I I Imports of Merchandise Gold and i Silver For the Month I Washington May HTh comparative I Aorii statement of the exports and imports im-ports of merchandise gold and silver of i thy United States Issued by the bureau of statistics shows as follows Merchandise domestic exports 7G17G I 91C i increase as compared with April 1SK3 JC775000 Import 101305101 of which nearly 5 per cent was free of duty As comivied with April ISSfl there was an crease in dutiable Imports of over i KOOuOOQQ and of over S22000000 In non 1 dutiable merchandise i For the ten months the exports of domestic do-mestic merchandise exceeded those of the same period of 1S96 by over lilOO The lirorts of merchandise during the last tel month however were over S6COOOCOO less than for the same period last year e amount of told exported during April was SG025419 and the imports JG19 452 During the last ten months the excess ex-cess of god Imports over exports was 3S IS31O6 The exports of silver during Anril amounted to S44S6805 and the Imports Im-ports SS7124 For the last ten months the exorts of silver exceeded the imports im-ports by 5423I3C92 0 |