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Show HEAVY DECREASE IN EXPORTS OF COPPER Great Falling Off In Metal Shipped to Italy Since Declaration of the Belligerents. WASHINGTON Dec 9 Exports of copper from the United States dur ng the first twenty e ght days of November amounted to $5 065 021 compared w th a tota of $7 873 928 for the month of Oc tober Th s decrease shown in reports made pub c ton ght by the department of commerce is unde stood to have been due to difficu t es encou tered In sh p p ng this p odu t which has been de c ared cond t ona contraband by tl e European be ligerents The exports to Italy atwut which moat of the troub e has centered on account of the cam that much of t e copper sent to that country wbb for Ge many or Aus tr a dropped from $2 6o 78 to $326,254 Dur ng the twenty e ght days of No veirber the United States mported $1 861 677 worth of copper most of it com ing from Austral a Peru Canada Chile and Japan |