Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Foreign Commerce and Navigation of the United States for the Year Ending June 30, 1903, Vol. 1 of 2
An especially striking feature of the foreign commerce of the year was a large increase in imports. Exports grew from in 1902 to 9 in 1903, an increase of imports grew from 9903320943 in 1902 to in 1903, an increase of 3122393239. The total of imports in 1903 for the first time exceeded one billion dollars. The increase was chiefly in materials for use in manufacturing. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
