For the first time since January there was in August an adverse trade balance amounting to 110,000,- 000 crowns. Exports during that months were valued at 1,111,000,000 crowns, as against imports of 1,224, 000,000 crowns. Ever since "May the exports have been dropping, and August shipments were below the monthly average forthe first seven. months of the year—1,806,- 000,000 "crowns. At the end August, the total Czechoslovak favourcble balance of trade for the first eight months of this year amounted to. 544,000,000 crowns, oF bout $1,600,000.
The decrease in exports during August was accounted for prineipale ly by the smaller shipments sugar, coal, cotton, woolen goode, id inst. Imports of livestock in: Jevensed, but there was a falling off lin puvchare of cotton, bread grains flour, and wool.
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