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Show FOREIGN TRADE j " HAS BEEN CUT DOWN NEW YORK, March 5. Imports at ! 1 ! the port of New York for January, I f j 1918, wore more than $60,000,000 less j T than the same month last year, while I J ' there was a decline of nearly $56,000tx M' 000 In exports, according to figures 3 J ; compiled at the custom houso. tj! Imports of merchandise in January, 1918, totalled only $88,16-1,970, as com- t pared with $128,344,239 in January, t 1917. The corresponding figures for , 1 1 j exports of merchandise were $248,203,' i j ' 724 and $303,906,525. j ' Exports of gold In January. 1918, j A were only $657,940, whereas in Jan- I fih uary, 1917, they amounted to $10,- 1 al' 494,074. The corresponding flgureB for m exports of silver were $2,746,717 and B It $4,209,111. fi ft |