Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1920-04-21 | Page 3 | Trade Balance Increase in Favor of U. S

TRADE BALANCE INCREASES IN ! FAVOR OF U. S. WASHINGTON, April 20. Al-; Al-; though imports in March reached a new high monthly record of , $484,000,000, the trade balance in favor of the United States increa-s- ed $336,000,000. Balances against the record imports were exports of $820,000,000, or the second largest in the history of the country. This total brought the exports for the nine months ending with March to $6,051,000,000 and left a trade balance bal-ance for the nine months of $3,-332,000,000. $3,-332,000,000. While its trade balance increased increas-ed in March, the country's gold and silver supply decreased, exports ex-ports of gold totalling $47,000,000 against imports of $17,000,000, and exports of silver amounting to $14,000,000 as against imports of $9,000,000.