Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 February 1918 — Holland’s Foreign Trade. [ARTICLE]

Holland’s Foreign Trade.

The "In- en Uitvoer” publishes the following analysis of Dutch foreign trade during the first half of 1917: The value of the leading articles Imported into Holland from Germany, or rather, of those articles which are included in .the .official figures of the central bureau of statistics (“Maandstatistiek van den In- en Uitvoer en van het Entrepotverkeer”), in the first quarter of the year was 25,365,107 florins (about $10,400,000 at exchange of $0.41), and, in the second quarter, 45,284,606 florins (about $18,567,000), a total of 70,649,713 florins in the first six months of 1917. The value of the chief articles exported to Germany.was 49,247,575 florins (about $20,191,500) in the first quarter and 52,841.202 florins (about $21,665,000) in the second, or 102,088,777 florins for the half year. Thus, in the first quarter Holland sent almost twice as much to Germany as it received, but in the second quarter the import trade with Germany almost balanced the export trade.