AUSTRALIAN TRADE.

Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 44, 22 February 1927, Page 4

AUSTRALIAN TRADE.

I - HOW IT IS DISTRIBUTED THE IMPERIAL ASPECT. BIG BALANCE AGAINST N.Z. The Commonwealth Statistician has prepared statistics relating to the distribution of Australian trade in the year ended June 30, 1926. Exports to British countries were 52.78 per cent of ihe total, and imports from British countries 56.47 per cent of the total. In the year 1024-25 exports to British countries were 53.05 per cent of the total, and imports from British countries 57.71 of the total. Trade with the Empire was not so preat last year, as it was the previous year. The following table (lives the amount of British and foreign trade of Australia, and their respective percentages of the total exports and imports in 1925-20: — TRADE OF AUSTRALIA. 1325-26. Exports to Imports from Value. Value. £ percent. £ percent. British Countries— 75.412.404 52.7S 55.C27.242 50.47 Forcign Countries— 70.149,505 47.22 60.010,930 43.53 148,562,209 100 151.635.17S 100 The nearest to a balance is the trade of the United Kingdom, which took 41.43 per cent of Australia's exports in 1925-26, and sent 43.42 per cent of her imports. British possessions as a whol- took 11.35 per cent of the exports, and returned 13.05 per cent of the imports. But imports from Canada were more than four times the exports to Canada, from Ceylon imports were three times the exports thither, and from India the proportion was two to one. Trade with South Africa was the other way. Exports thither were more than two and a-half times as great as imports from that dominion. Trade with various British countries is shown in the annexed table:— Exports to Imports from Value. Value. tt„i,„.*.-• , ~ lucent. £ percent. United Kingdom— 01,547,790 41.43 C5.540.C55 43.42 British Possessions— Canada . 858.934 .58 3.754,425 248 Ceylon . 500.0-1,-, .34 1,014.084 107 Fiji ... 570,828 .38 35.541 !o2 Hongk ng 071,824 .45 • . India ... 3.304.958 2.27 6.020.030 437 Malaya . 2.132,016 1.44 1.701.508 11V/. . ... 4947.590 3.33 2,051.002 {.75 S.A.Lnion 2.201,531 i.4S 897.306 no Other... 1.030,988 120 2 108 4*"t IHn Total 11.P. 10.804.614 11.35 Io'.TSg.SS? 13.05 Total British " Countries 78.412.404 52.78 85,027,242 50.47 •Included with "Other."