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Show FAR EAST TRADE WITH ' AMERICA SHOWS GROWTH WASHINGTON, , t 8. Commerce with the Far East thus far this yea r has amounted to approximate! pet-cent pet-cent of the foreign trade of the Cnited States, compared with 17 per cent last year, according to a summary issued today by the bureau of foreign and domestic commerce. Cor the eight months ended with August exports to the Orient aggregat-i cd . 7 7 . 5,(100. n,0. an increase of $136,-1 uoo.ooo over the same months of i9i. while imports from the Par Baet amounted to $ 1,1 is, 000,000 an Increase of M2. 000,000. I |