Show I I I I I 1 I I I NEW HIGH RECORD IN TRADE WIH WITH I Amount for Eight Months Greater Than Tan for Any Preceding Preceding Preceding Pre Pre- ceding Full Ful Year Trade 0 o the tile United States with Its is n noncontiguous noncontiguous non non- n-I n will make a new territories a contiguous wi 0 high record in the calendar year 1920 In statement by the National fact says a with I City Bank of ot New York the trade our noncontiguous territories in the eight I months ending with August of the current current current cur cur- rent year was greater than in any complete complete complete com com- preceding This term calendar year Includes of ot course the Philippine Islands I Ithe the Hawaiian islands Alaska and PortoRico Porto Rico The total wade trade trade with this noncontiguous non non- non non-I In the eight months i territory pr contiguous I end ending ng with with August 1920 was against In Itt II the full ful calendar I year 1919 1019 and In the full fun calendar cal cal- the year immediately preceding year of August August Au Au- month the single war l 1913 In I If latest for which we have gust 1920 the f figures ures the total was wa against in August of the preceding and while it is scarcely probable i yeas year I ye that this very high monthly record will continue during the remaining four months of ot tho the year It Is quite apparent that the trade with the territories in full calendar year ear I question will in the ful 1920 exceed wi SOO against j jIn I Ithe In the full calendar year ear 1919 0 Sugar oil and the copra cOJa from which it Is 15 produced 01 fruits coffee fish hemp I tobacco copper and furs are the principal articles forming toe the tile noncontiguous worth of imports from ous territories and manufactures and foodstuffs the chief export thereto From I the Philippines we have drawn in the tile the eight months montha of 1920 for or which figurea figures fig fig- fg- fg worth of of ures urea are available I I merchandise including worth of Manila hemp nearly 20 worth of t cocoanut oil oi 7 worth of ot cigars and cigarettes and of I sugar against 8 worth of at sugar imported In the tile corresponding months of I 1919 Prom From the Hawaiian Islands the principal imports in the eight months of 1920 are worth of ot sugar i against worth In the same saml months of the preceding year and over II 10 worth of ot canned pineapples against 5 worth In the same I Ig months of f the e preceding year From 1 g e Porto lorto Ico the t chief imports are sugar I against 43 In the same Bame months of ot last lat year two and one half one hat million dollars dollars' worth of fruits and nuts against t one a and three quarters million I i d dollars In the same months of last sr year and 20 worth of ot tobacco and cigars against less than 8 worth worthin I in the same months of last list year From Prom Alaska Alaska the chief imports ore are ITe canned salmen nine and one-half one million dollars dollars' worth against six and one third one third million dollars dollars' worth In the corresponding months of 1919 copper nine and one one half half million dollars dollars' worth against five and third one-third million dollars' dollars worth in the same months of 0 Lost Lut year and furs 3 worth against one and one- one quarter million dollars in the corresponding correspond correspond- ing months of last year ear In our exports to the noncontiguous territories territories ter ter- the variety of ot articles is much greater To the Hawaiian Islands the exports in the el eight ht months total 48 48 against 32 In the same months of last year rear and included four tour and one half one hal mIlon dollars worth of off f chiefly rice and flour flou worth of f cotton i 8 S g oO worth h hI of ot iron an mineral oils 5 6 a an nB 5 one- one I half halt million dollars petroleum in various arlous I forms five and one half million dol dollars rs of which about was fuel and gas oil 01 and one and quarter one one million I dollars dolar gasoline and manufactures manufactures I tures of lea leather ther 1 electrical maI machinery ma ma- chinery nearly 1000 passenger automobiles automobiles auto auto- mobiles one and three three quarters quarters million I dollars and commercial automobiles pearly nearly a half hal million milon dollars To Porto PortoRico PortoRico PortoRico Rico the principal articles artices forming the 78 worth of ot exports In the eight I months ending with wih August 1920 in inI includes includes in- in and one half one hal million dol dol- dollars dollars I lars worth of foodstuffs of which twelve and one half million dollars was rice and andI three and one-half one million dollars flour four I 15 worth of cotton coton manufactures I two and one half one hal million dollars dolas of ot fertilizers fer ter- 1 worth of passenger automobiles automobiles au au- au- au iron and steel manufactures four tour and one half one hal million dollars dolar meet and meat products nearly 7 petroleum petroleum petroleum pe pe- pe- pe in all Its forms about 2 2000 and vegetables two and one one half half million dollars To the Philippine Islands the tile exports for the eight months of 19 O include two and quarter one one quater million dollars dollars' worth of ot otI passenger automobiles one and one half one hal million dollars dollars' worth of automobile tires tres 11 worth of ot cotton cloths manufactures manufactures manu manu- of ot iron and steel approximately POO Illuminating oil 01 1 and million dollars cigarettes tes three quarters To Alaska the t e chief chie articles forming the exports of 27 worth In the el eight h months ending with August 1920 were h-ead h tuff 1 1000 o J t Iron and d steel lI l manufactures man man- of whIch tinplate for forthe forthe the manufacture of ot containers for the canned salmon amounted to 1 1 meat and dairy products 3 cotI cotton cotton cot- cot ton manufactures a little over 1 pd woolen woolI manufactures a quarter of a am m million ilon dollars |