Customer Washington, Oct. 14, Department of Commerce statistics revealed today that the Philippines was the fifth customer of the United States from January to August of this year, United States exports to the Philip: pines during that period, the statistics showed, wore 60,743,000, which was exceeded only by exports 10 the United Kingdom, Canada, Japan, and Imports to the United States from the Philippines over the, period covered by the: statistics were $60,309,000 which exceeded only by Canada, the United "Kingdom, British Malaya, Japan ann Cuba.—United Pres Trade Balance U.S. Cotton Output Decreases Washington, Oct. 10.
The Department of Agriculture today estimated that. 1939 cotton. pro-notion would be 11,928,000 bales, 1 Feduetion of 452,000 from last September. The forecast attributed the Feduction to the hot dry weather which Tasted all last month throughout the western portion of the cotton belt—United Press.
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