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Show IH UJ 1IIEB STATES I FORM TRADE I WASHINGTON, Jan 1 Tho foreign commerce of the UnUed States for 1910, Including both exports and imports, im-ports, promises to set u new record in the hlBtory of the nation Tho olevon months ending with No-cmbor, No-cmbor, for which the bureau of statistics sta-tistics of tho department of commerce and labor has secured complete figures, fig-ures, have brought tho grand totnl of exports aud Imports to the enormous sum of $3.063,3S4,S54 Only tho banner year of 1907 compares com-pares with this figure The total commerce for tho first eleven months of that year was $3,017,23-1,045. Tho traJe figures for December, tho closing clos-ing month of this year, nre expected to swell the total of the nation's for-olgn for-olgn commerce to nearly $3,400,000,-000 $3,400,000,-000 Tho breaking of commercial records rec-ords will not apply to exports. The ImportH will reach tho highest flguro for any yoar In tho history of tho United Slates, but the sum of the exports will probably fall $75,000,000 short of that of 1907 Notwithstanding Notwithstand-ing Uils decline and tho Increaso in the Imports of the country, the bal-anco bal-anco will still be close to $300,000,-000 $300,000,-000 In favor of tho export side of the account The greater quantity of materials Imported Is due to tho development of manufacturing Industries which import im-port crude materials or import articlos partly manufactured, in order to cora-pleto cora-pleto the manufacture in this country. coun-try. The slower devolopment of tho export trade Is due mainly to the fact that tho United States Is exporting export-ing a emnller quantity of brcadstuffs and other food products each year and Is more nearly consuming its total to-tal output of such articles. The full year's figures for exports are expected to he $1.S40,000,000 and the Imports $1,550,000,000. This is an increase of 90 per cent in imports over the year 1900, and an increase In exports of 25 per cent over that year The Importation of crude materials and materials for further manufacture moro than doubled in thnt tlmo On the export Bide, tho valuo of the outgoing out-going foodstuffs for 1910 Is but $340,-000,000. $340,-000,000. compared with Imports of $540,000,000 of such products In 1900. This is a decline of more than 35 per cenL Export of manufactured articles, on the other hand, shows a gain of C5 per cent in tho ten years |