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Show EXPORTS INCREASING. . A joor-iin z 'o -a statement issued by bureau of foreign and domestic coir.rr.eree, the decline in our export traie indicated by the July figures did not continurj in August. Exports during dur-ing August autounted to' $:6,CO'?,000 r.orc thr.n in July, being valued, at H'.O -I-."1 00. In August last year the was C .VOO. For the eight incnths ended with August exports were v:.iued at 00,000 against $4.00?,- .-.-. r ,-j ,-, r j q c o r r e s p c n din g months in 201. August imports amounted to eSOS.OOO.CC 0. a decrease of 635.000,000 as comrared with July, but a gain over the ?273.000.000 recorded in 191S. For th.c eieht months ended with August imrorts increased "from 62,051,000,000 ja"l0iS to S2.20o?000,000 in 1919. Loth our exports and imports should t nke a bi .iu:r.p soon after peace is (ffici:::y declared provided the industries indus-tries of the cC'Uutry are not" tied up by s". :uhc5 t.::d also provide 1 that the nec-c nec-c 5 r. ry credits arc iun:ished foreign fouu.r'.es who are unable to pay cash ior 1 1 : e r-ro d ucts they need. In fact here will ho practically no end to the builr.es s we shall be able to transact if the cor-di'inns are favorable. |