This would leave a slight rise in the value of shipments of cotton textiles and a large rise in exports of rayon yarn. It is not known where these gains were made. The gain in rayon exports, the "Asahi" says, paralleled a decline in the export of rayon textiles, Though this would indicate that foreign countries are developing their own weaving industry and therefore inclined to buy more of the semi-finished product, the "Asahi" claims that the increase in rayon yarn shipments is a result of the invasion of Japanese rayon yarn into the former markets of Italy and Britain.—Havas.
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