Show FALLING OFF IN COMMERCE atlantic ports lost in trade during past year washington of the approximately reduction in the foreign commerce of the united states in 1908 when compared with that of the preceding year nearly wis was in the trade which was accustomed to pass through atlantic ports this la is the statement made in a report issued by the bureau of statistics of jhc thc department of commerce and labor the imports of the atlantic ports in the calendar year 1907 were while the exports were as bom compared pared with an app roxi mate import total in 1908 of OU 0 and an estimated export total of VAS the falling failing off in tile the imports of the pacific and northern border ports was 16 per cent while wl hile the falling off in exports from northern border ports Is about 17 per cent the pacific ports beltow a slight increase in the value of the he exports this incie increase aie being chiefly in n wheat |