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Show Radical Changes i In U. S. Foreign Trade Reported WASHINGTON, Nov. 4. Radical changes In the foreign trade of the United States in spirits, wines and liquors due m national prohibition legislation leg-islation are reported by the department depart-ment of commerce. For the eight months ending with August, I91, the value of liquors es ! ported was nineteen times as great as ihe imports while in the year 1914 1 the value of Imports was five times! he value of the exports. Intoxicat Ing liquors imported during the Oral igtit months of the present year to-talled to-talled 516,214 in value, or at the rate if 774,324 for the complete year, while :n 1917 the Import trade oi the I nited States in this eommoditv amounted to 17.G79,132 and in 1914 to $20,347,546 Exports for the eight mouths . nd-ng nd-ng With AUgUBl amounted m 9,989,-58 9,989,-58 as compared with $5,S.S3,013 for the corresponding period in 1918 and $x,417.17S In 1917 Continuation of i his export trade is expected by the department of the greal quantities of liquors now in bonded distilleries and i 'customs warehouses. oo |