Manila, Mar. 13.
Textile imports from Japan during January reached the highest Agure since "February, 1998, despite the refusal of Chinese merchants handle Japanese textiles, the Bureau of Customs announced today.
Japanese textiles imported by the Philippines in January of this year Jamounted to 2,953,451 square metres, 523,049 square metres above the Jamount imported in December, 1938.
American textiles also registered big increase. January imports of American textiles totalled $10,886,703 square metres, 1,381,816 square metres Jabove the December figure and only below June 1938, as an all record, Bureau of Customs statist Fevealed—United Press.
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