Manila, Mar. 13.
imports from Japan during January reached the highest figure since "February, 1938, despite the refusal of Chinese merchants to handle Japanese textiles, the Bureau
Philippines in January of this year japanese po! y the textiles im) orted by th
to 2,953,451 square' metres, square metres above the big increase. January imports of American textiles totalled $10,866,793 square metres, 1,381,816 square metres above the December figure and only below June 1938, as an all-time record, Bureau of Customs statistics revealed.—United Press.
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