Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 282, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 December 1918 — B. S. Sets New High Mark For Its Foreign Commerce. [ARTICLE]

B. S. Sets New High Mark For Its Foreign Commerce.

New high records for September foreign trade in both imports and exports were announced by the department of commerce. Imports were $282,000,000, an increase of nearly $26,000,000 over September, 1917, and exports $550,000,000, an increase of about SIOO,000,060. For the nine months ending September, 1918, imports Were $2,322,000,000, an increase of $40,000,000 while exports for the nine months, val tied at $4,561,a»,000. represented a alight decrease.