Despite the general spurt in trade between the United States and the rest of the world in 1936, German trade with this country, amounting to only 3.2 per cent of the total American foreign trade, reached a new low, according to the annual report of the Non-Sectarian Anti-Nazi League.
The statement is based on a study of German trade with the United States since 1932, the last pre-Hitler year. That year imports from Germany amounted to 281,202,000 Reichmarks, dropping to 245,852,000 Reichmarks in 1933 the year Hitler assumed power, and finally falling to 172,001,000 Reichsmarks in 1936.
German imports to this country amounted in 1932 to 5.6 per cent of our total imports, rapidly declining in 1933 to 5.4 per cent; in 1934 to 4.2 per cent, in 1935 to 3.8 per cent, and in 1936 to 3.2 per cent.
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