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EXPORTS OF PRINCIPAL MANUFACTURES. 



IMPORTS OF KAW MATERIALS. 



The foreign commerce of France has stead- 

 ily increased since the German war, in spite of 

 the extra burdens which the war imposed upon 

 the people, and in spite of deficient harvests 

 in 1872 and 1873, until in 1876, owing to the 

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diminished demand in other countries, her for- 

 eign exports began to decline. The special 

 commerce from 1870 to 1876 was, in millions 

 of francs and fractions of millions, as fol- 

 lows : 



