Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 106, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 September 1899 — HOW THE WORLD’S IMPORTS AND EXPORTS COMPARE. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

HOW THE WORLD’S IMPORTS AND EXPORTS COMPARE.

Of the four greatest commercial nations the imports and exports of France are the nearest equal. Each year France sells abroad goods to the amount of $700,000,000 and imports goods to the amount of $800,000,000. Germany imports $250,000,000 worth mure than it exports, while Great Britain actually buys twice as much each year as it sells. The. United States, on the other hand, is the greatest merchant among the nations. What with wheat and other foodstuffs and manufactured articles it sells abroad nearly three times as much as is brought in from foreign countries.