tling decrease in the foreign trade of the United States continues.
Exports for the month of May' were valued at—$205,000,000 as contpared with $820,000,000. for May. 1930, Imports' for the same month were valued at $175,000,000 as compared with $295,000,000 for the corresponding peried in 1990.
These figures are the lowest. since October, 1914.
For the five months ceding May 81, 1981, exports totalling $1,130- 000,000 as compared with $1,780- (000,000 for the corresponding period in 1930, a decrease of $650,000,000.
Imports during the same period were valued at" $935,000,000 as compared with $1,485,000,000 for the corresponding months in 1930, Reuter. a decrease of $550,000,000.—
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