Show OUR TRADE WIT II PHILIPPINES nAS AS DOUBLED IN YEAR Greater Freedom of Interchange Inter Inter- Interchange change Proves of Ad Advantage Adv vantage van van- n- n tage tae to Both W WASHINGTON Dec 9 That That the tho Payne-Aldrich Payne tariff law has has' tended to increase the trade between the United States and Philippines is exemplified by 1 figures compiled by the tho bureau of statistics Permitting an interchange free of duty uty o of practically all classes cassos of oi of articles passing between this country countr and islands trade between tho the United Unite States and the tho Philippines has practically practically dou doubled bled The total value of imports from the islands for the first fifteen mon months of I Ithe the operation of a new law amounted to twenty-four twenty and third one million dollars agai against st eleven and a half mil mu- lions for the tho fifteen months immediately immediate immediate- ate ly preceding its enactment Exports to totne the islands for fifteen months mouths since the new now tariff has been in in effect were valued valued val val- ned at twenty-three twenty and a half million dollars a against twelve and a half mil mu- lions Hons for the previous fifteen months Philippine reports for or the first quarter ter of the calendar year show that merchandise n from the United States I merchandise n from the United States formed per cent of the tho total imports imports im im- imports im- im ports a per cent in in the corresponding corresponding cor cor- responding quarter of last year ear the fi figures ures in each case ease being exclusive of imports by supply offices of the army navy and insular and railway |