Tokyo, Jan. 10.
Japan's foreign trade for the first ten days of this month showed an adverse balance of Y.16,544,000, the Finance Ministry announced to-day. Imports totalled '¥.28,678,000 and exports amounted to ¥.12,134,000.
Raw silks topped the exports list with a value of ¥.1,278,000; cotton textiles, at Y.1072000, ran second, and third, rayon textiles, at Y.849,000. Other major exports were machinery, S.811,000; silk textiles, ¥.457,000; toys, ¥'253,000; cotton yarns, Y.245,000: bottled ' and canned provisions, ¥.178,000; woollen textiles, Y.129,000; knitted goods, Y.120000; lumber, 3.80000; pottery, Y.78000, and rayon textiles, ¥.27,000.
Y.12,000, was pushed out of first posi-In the imports list, raw cotton, at tion by beans, valued at Y.1,332,000. Third was pulp, at Y.674,000, with bean and rape seed cakes next at 'Y.006,000. Other import products were wool, Y.544,000; coal, Y.$42,000; raw materials for extraction of mineral oil Y.500,000; sugar, ¥422,000; raw Fubber, ¥.111,000, and hemp, Y.21,000.—Domei.
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