Book excerpt: Excerpt from Supplement to Commerce Reports; December 5, 1918: Daily Consular and Trade Reports Issued by the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce, Department of Commerce; France, Cette As shown by the following figures, the imports of merchandise in transit to Switzerland in 1917 showed a marked decrease compared with 1916: In 1916 tons were transshipped, a11d__in 1917, 350 288 tons. 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.