AUSTRALIAN TRADE.
imports exceed exports. 'meeting the debit with gold. j Returns of oversea trade of Australia for December show no material change in the I trend-of the trade balance, the value of | both exports and imports being about l r i million below that of December. 1925. Excess oi imports for the first hah of the | year was £14.057.400. compared with £14.484.98.1 for five months, and £4.339.945 i for the first half of 1925-26. A conlI parison of exports and imports for the first six-monthly periods of two years is I afivrded in the following table: — 1f«2.---j«. I!<lt,-i>7. Movement. Exports 72.-131.-Hi K«i.f>35.7«",3 — 2.4:i2.67S Imports 70.7iU.300 sa.yt'O.lOS — 7.204."ca Ex. oflni. 4.339.934 14,037,401." In the following table exports and ! imports of bullion and specie are separated from merchandise, showing the effect of the export of gold for trade balance nur- ! ]loses abroad:--I Exports— ::■-•.-.--.; Murruit-ut. Mi-rcUajr.- 71.725.!;::n i',!'.707.0-i2-Jy.ttin.ClS linuion Jc | Specie . 702.4 M :i.171.121 ->.4CS.C4O • I Imports— : |>lerchau"e 70.000 l' 9° S3 700 4«'i --u- <<,- i: Bullion & " 'l- ••■usu.^Ji •■ Specie . 154.403 205.074 —21.271
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Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 43, 21 February 1927, Page 4
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