CANADA'S OVERSEAS TRADE.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 18, 23 January 1933, Page 4

CANADA'S OVERSEAS TRADE.

SHOWS SLIGHT IMPROVEMENT. The figures of Canada's overseas trade show a slight but welcome improvement, and there is probably some justification for the claim made in Dominion Government circles that already the Ottawa Conference is yielding beneficial results (reports the "London Times" of November 26). Exports in October showed an increase in values of over a million dollars compared with October of last year; it is significant that to Empire countries the increase on the figures of a year ago amounted _to 6,000,000 dollars. There was a notable improvement in timber shipments to Great Britain. Another feature of interest in Canada's trade is the steady growth of her purchases of British anthracite. These, for the current year, have now passed the million tons mark, the increase in comparison with the same period of 1931 being no less than 300,000 tons. The United States of America, which only five years ago sold four times as much anthracite to the Dominion as this country, has now been displaced as the chief supplier, and it is anticipated that next year the British position in this j respect will be still more satisfactory. j