The "Journal of the American Asit Association" that our commercial resumed their tapul: figures of the calendar: the records of the eight months ending with August are not particularly encouraging in their relation to Asiatic trade. Our exports to China are two millions less than they were for the same period as last year; our imports from China remain about stationary; we have exported nearly a million less to British India than the figures of a year ago, and over four millions less than in 1912; the exports to Japan have dropped thirteen mi though the imports from Japan have increased over ten millions; and the whole export trade to Asia shows a loss as compared with the corresponding period of last year, amounting to $17,000,000.
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