Washington, July 30.
American cotton exports, which! showed a serious decline several months ago, are now feeling the fects of the British strike and are increasingly occupying a focal point in the interest of United States export firms.
If the British situation continues, it is considered probable that the United States will make a drive for increased markets in the Orient and. elsewhere, Such a campaign will probably take place in the near future if at all, The United States' unfavourable trade balance of $40,000,000 for last May is attributed almost entirely to a sharp decline of cotton exports. It is thought possible that exports.—United Press,
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