Import prices up 0.1% in July after declines in June and May; export prices rise 0.4%. 08/15/2017. U.S. import prices edged up 0.1 percent in July, led by higher fuel prices which more than offset lower prices for nonfuel imports. Import prices rose 1.5 percent over the past 12 months.
1 The origin of the first American flag is unknown. Some historians believe it was designed by New Jersey Congressman Francis Hopkinson and sewn by Philadelphia seamstress Betsy Ross.  The name Old Glory was given to a large, 10-by-17-foot flag by its owner, William Driver, a sea captain from Massachusetts.
â¦times, and John Paul Jonesâs Ranger, the first ship to fly the American flag, was launched there in 1777. The Portsmouth Naval Shipyard (1800), which from the mid-1950s to 1971 built nuclear submarines and now overhauls and repairs them, is in Kittery.