| Show TRADE WITH ISLANDS interesting figures regard ing imports and exports DEALING WITH philippines exports for the past eight months show a gain of seventy per cent imports also show an increase with forto rico shows an excess of imports over exports trade balance being in favor of our want tho returns from cuan show april fackre tiny af war M RUC out for publication bodny some aln the trad of the bulled alth tho mind ut boilo japo haid the philippines ihra by lu tho fact that of ardc hinc nt yet hren hr en fully between the tho for iab luary chow un of imports from the in this amounting to fix and 11 so of cloila eifim tin tu hie 0 u alln month a aro alif tride of iha slafca alli ih it Is nal 1 to iff natural didis to the dl of tin attention cx to ahll the aiom nur ana 10 philippine for y of lust benr to only for tho bamo this year they arc ahai ton llaca tt much baloe trofio for the ended etli february 28 lahs they only allo for alio llio of ahe 1 they gain I 1 of nearly ad arp cent our froia for acro a rain oc in arly 60 poa cent over tho sann month alft year the decline of lin imo tho stales from tho philippines the montha of ac alvo warfare iho for tho maidi HS computed ulah UIO S for a th car before our trado ith porto alco likewise ahon an of import over cx limiti to that island roi tho of the lescal year the imports from nio to the united kaend 60 afu ofu in value over ahe fonner year of athly morn thaia gnp haaf wu in the month of february hen the imports of isri reached 1618 tor alii trade balance this coun try and porto alro in now in fairir of our as for the sanio 1 iho exploit ex ceic or in of of isufi for the etc the year tho amounted to u kaan of developed regardless of tho several months tho ports of the ipland were closed to our wares and trade w lah cuba has been in the several tamea oa large as our trade uh porto rico and the philippines combined and now la already wonderful galna over the older A year OKO in february before the aar we imported from the island of cuba valued at we fop the fidao month of the current year tho figurea were for the period of july 1 1898 to february 28 1893 thi total imports to th united state boits from cubit were fi 8 iho iche period of a year eailler athla of more than ivo and three quarter millions mainly occurred during the months hen the crops were being shipped tho exports lo 10 cuba have ano prospered theao of january and february an of over a million dollars in value for february the merchandise exported from this country to cuba vaa valued at for the aade four beka of 1899 the eio the worth of tho exports aiom the faral of lat july to alie and of february s given at an increate atif 33 iier cent over alio llio year |
