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Show oo 1 Exports of Sisgar are : Explained m Reports WASHINGTON, Feb. 24 Although there were general complaints of a sugar shortage in this country last I year, exports of the commodity during j that time exceeded those of the year before by more than one billion pounds, according to department of commerce records. Exports reached a total of l,-i75t107,G78 pounds compared with -107,296,324 pounds the year before. be-fore. One explanation of the increase advanced ad-vanced is that England sent much cane to the United States to be refined and reshipped. Exports to that country, coun-try, however, were only 425,170,501 pounds, whereas France imported 627, 6S2.116 pounds, or nearly half of the total. Italy took the third largest quantity, 58.931,917 pounds. Relaxation of restrictions on shipments ship-ments by the allied countries after the war is believed here to be largely responsible re-sponsible for the increased exports. , nn |