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Show 'Billion Dollar Commerce. The foreign commerco of tho United States approached ' the $3,000,000,000 point in ho calendar year 1905. Tho total Imports and exports of merchandise! merchan-dise! foi thnt year, ns shown by thu department of ronimcrco and labor, : throii!:li Its bureau of atatlstlca, was $2,S0fi,0O0,O0O, against .,307,000,000 In 1900, an average IncmBo of $100,-000,000 $100,-000,000 u year In the nve-yvar period. If to tho $2,?'JG,000.000 of foreign commerce com-merce In 1905 were added tho figures I of trade with Hawaii und Porto Hleo, J formerly foreign territory and included j In our statements of foreign trade J prior to lflni tho total would npproxl-I npproxl-I mate $2,900,000,000, or about $G00,-I $G00,-I 000,000 more than five years ago nhd I $1,200,000,000 moro than ten years ago. I Harper's Weekly. |