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Show AMERICA'S FOREIGN COMMERCE. A Falling Off During the Last Year What We Furnish Our Kiigf-lish Kiigf-lish Cousins. Washington, November 18. Chief Switz-ler, Switz-ler, of the Bureau of Statistics, yesterday completed the annual report on foreign commerce. It shows a falling off in our foreign trade during the last fiscal year of $93,251,921. ' Comparing our foreign commerce com-merce with that of other nations, Great Britain stands first, Germany second, France third, and the United States fourth. The most NOTABLE FEAT OSES OF OUB FOBEIGN TBADE During the last fiscal year, as compared with the trade of 1884, was a decrease in the imports im-ports of merchandise of $90,003,030 and a falling off in the exports of gold of $32,0,-0C3. $32,0,-0C3. The decrease occurred mainly in the imports of sugar and molasses, silk, wool and manufactures of silk and wool and iron and steel. Great Britain not only takes about 60 per cent, of our agricultural and unmanufactured products, but also a large share, amounting to 27 per cent., of our manufactures, more than do Central America, Amer-ica, the West Indies and South America combined. ,-. |