Washington, Mar. 5.
Preliminary figures received by the Department of Commerce show that exports from the United States to China in 1828 were valued $165,850,000, and that there was an American trade balance for the first put at $156,625,000.
The value of exports also showed fan increase of 51 per cent. over the 1027 value of $109,05,000, hen, because of abnormally high pinees, the total was $178,782,000, With the exception of raw cotto:. the high price of which made less attractive to Chinese manu: facturers in the rehabilitation of their textile industry, most of the: important staples shared in the trade expansion, China bought bout 161,000,000 1b. of American leaf tobacco during 1928, vated at $14,318,000, a gain of 181 per cent. in quantity and 216 per cent. in value, It also took cigarettes worth $14,518,000.
The consumption of Ameri steel in construction work and rail-oad projects, particularly in Shanghai-and Manchuria, aggresati $9,543,000, represented an increas fof 29 per cent., while the amount of flour exported to China advanced Rieked"inrences in machinery 30 per cent. There were also
tlectrieal equipment, while the min-Ser of automobiles and trucks roe
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