The Washington herald., 1921-10-13
FOREIGN TRADE
FOR SEPTEMBER
SHOWS DECLINE
Imports Less Than Half
That of Same Month
Last Year.
EXPORTS, s325,OOO, 900
|, Compares With S6O4,6S6,259
During Like Period
OF 1920.
EXPORTS, sS25, 900, 900

Imports of merchandise for the
month Of September totaled $780,
100000. as compared with sSs3, ESQ.,
3e1 during September of last year.
Exports totaIed s325.oOo.oOO dur
ing September. 1921. as against
seo4.sss.25s during September. 1890
During the nine months ended
September 80. Imports totaled 81
s73.47O.515 as against ,4.s5s.o1s,234
during the corresponding period of
last year.
Exports for the nine months Pc
riod Of this year aggregated s3.-
SS2.o1s,73s as compared with ss,-
o7s.sss.s52. during the nine months
of 1920.
Big Increase I'm Gold.
Imports of gold during Septem-
Der. 1921. totaled s66.515,233. COM
pared with sss,11O.o0s during Sep
tember. 1920: while exports Of gold
during September of this year
amounted to s2.44s.741. as against
sl7,12s.ooo during September. 1920.
For theSnine-months' period. i'm
ports Of gold amounted to s562.s04.- :
Ss5. as against s1ss.75s.747 during
the corresponding period of last
year.
Exports of gold during the nine
months period of this year totaled
s13.545,sss, as against s25s.231.s25
during the first nine months Of
1920.
Silver imports during September.
1921. amounted to s4.565,s5s against
ss,501,o2s during September, 1920,
while exports Of silver during Sep
tember of this year amounted to
s4.s4s.751 as against s6.577.434 dur
ing September of last year.
Imports Of silver for the first nine
months of this yesr amounted to
S44.3s1,s5o as compared with s73,-
+s6.s2s during the first nine months
Of last year, and exports of silver
aggregated s34,s44.32i during the
nine months period of this year as
compared with sss.6s2,S27 during
the corresponding period of last
year.
Exports of Commodities.
September. 1891. exports declined
$50. 900, 900 below August, to an ap-
proximate total Of s325,000. 900. only
s5.00o,0 900 above the low record of
July, 1921. Imports also fell to
within a few million dollars of the
July low. and at $3.50. 200. 900. were
nearly 100000 under the month
ly average since January.
Less active trade in foodstuffs.
following the heavy shipments of
August, contributed mainly to the
September decline. A further great
reduction Of the gross volume of
credit in foreign trade accounts. in
part for the strength OF sterling ex-
change In September, and its sub
stantial October advance.
At the same time the American
world export balance on a combined
turnover of s5,42s. .006.o00 in nine
months OF 1921 Is 1851. .217.6s7. On
a combined turnover of s10,438,00S.-
900 in nine months of 1920 the ex-
port balance was only s1,721.970.0o0
or but $40. 600. 900 q per cent? more
than in current trads-
Merchandise imports in the 1920
period aggregated s4.35s.01e.0 900
much more than again as high as
In 1921. The gold movement cor
respondingly ran adverse to Amer
lea to the amount of ss0.475,000 a
wear ago, as compared With an i'm
port balance of s54s,359.0O0 at the
End Of nine months Of 1921.
At the September rate of trade
foreign commerce of the United
states In the next twelve months
would exceed that Of 1913 by a
third.
\ Figures by Months.
Nerchandise exports and imports
blow by months to September. in
Elusive. 1921.
1921: Exports Imports
Sept. (prel). .s325, 100000 s1S0.000,O0n
August 3I1,935,29s 19476I,664
Juiy ..... BIOLOGISTS 178,635,711
Jun. ...... 336,s58.412 1859. .Ss3
Nav .... 32s, ,746,379 204,s10,s65
AprfI ... 33s,914,sS7 254,571. .O24
March .-.... BS6,Sll.l5S Zol'ssS'Ifl