Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 March 1900 — EXPORTS BREAK THE RECORD. [ARTICLE]

EXPORTS BREAK THE RECORD.

February Foreign Trade Averaged *5,000,000 a Day. A Washington dispatch says that the month, of February, l!kK>, has made the most remarkable record of any February in the history of our foreign commerce. The exports during that month have averaged >5,000,0(10 for every business day in the month, and the total exports were >119,765,762, or more than 25 per cent greater than that of any preceding February. Not only are the exports larger than* those Of any preceding February, but the excess of exports over imports is also much larger than in any preceding February, surpassing those of 1898 by nearly 25 per cent and being more than 50 per cent in excess of that of any earlier year. February is a month of heavy importations, aud it frequently happens that the imports exceed the exports, so that an excess of >50,001,612 in exports over irtiports in February makes the record of the month a remarkable one, despite,the fact that the importations which amounted to >68,774,150 were slightly larger than those of any preceding year except 1893.