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Show i INCREASE IN IMPORTATION. Washington. May 23. The April statement of the bureau of statistics shows a marked increase' in the importation im-portation of manufacturers' materials and a decline In tho oxportatiou' of foodstuffs. The fifty articles named in the Import Im-port list form about two-thirds of the totil values of the Imports and the fifty articles named in the export list form about three-fourths of the total value of exports. It is shown that in nearly all arj tides for use In manufacturing, ln- eluding raw silk, hides and skJns, India rubber, wool, copper, lumber, raw cotton and chemicals, the imports of the month and of the accumulated months of tho year are in excess of those of the corresponding period of last year; thatin many of the important im-portant manufactures tho figures of tho present year exceed those of last year, but that in foodstuffs; the exports ex-ports of 1909 are in most cases less in value than those of 1908. |