The foreign trade in Korea (as shown by the 11 Customs Houses in the peninsula) during the first six months of the current 4 is reported to stand at Y.105,966/639 exports, and Y.145,100,497 in imports, the total being Y.251,067,136.
As compared with the correspond-4 ing period of the preceding year these figures show an increase of Y.27,617,549 or something above 12 per cent. in total. Concerning the tendency of the trade, some commodities grew in quantity or in number, while others diminished, but on the whole the rate of crease is less than that of 1918 or 1919, the cause being the echo of the depression in Japan.
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