Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 299, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 December 1920 — ELLIS OPERA HOUSE U. S. OVERSEAS TRADE [ARTICLE]

ELLIS OPERA HOUSE

U. S. OVERSEAS TRADE

Reaches Unprecedented Total of $11,875,424,000. Almost Half of It -tarried in American Boats, Secretary of Commerce Reports. Washington, Dec. 15. —Nearly onehalf of the nation’s record-breaking overseas commerce In the last fiscal year was carried la American ships. Secretary of Commerce Alexander shows in his annual report. The overseas trade reached the unprecedented total of $11,875,424,000, and $5,071,905,000 of it was carried ip American-owned vessels, as against $368,359,000 carride in American bottoms the year before the war. The total volume of Imports and exports by land and sea was $13,349,661,000, nearly $3,000,000,000 above the previous record established in the fiscal year ended June 30, 1919. Imports for the last year amounted to $5,238,621,000, as compared with $3,095,720,000 for the previous year and almost $3,000,000,000 for the fiscal year of 1918. The value of exports for the last fiscal year aggregated $74)50,429,000, an increase of approximately $900,000,000 over the previous year and $2,000,000,000 over 1918.