FALLING OFF.
BRITISH TRADE.
Heavy "Adverse" Balance Shown
In Latest Returns.
United Press Association.—Copyright. (Received 10 a.m.) LONDON, August 15. The British Board of Trade returns for July show that the value of imports was £73,939,000, exports £37,470,000 and re-exports £4,555,000. ' Compared with July, 1937, principal increases were:—lmports, meat £1,546,000, dairy produce £1,052,000; exports, machinery £508,000. Decreases: Imports, grain and flour £1,559,000, wood and timber £3,297,000, iron and steel manufactures thereof £1,057,000, nonferrous metals manufactures £2,187,000, machinery £578,000; exports, coal £682,000, iron and steel £1,476.000, cotton and yarns manufactures £2,424,000, woollen and worsted manufactures £1,247,000, vehicles £065,000; re-exports, non-ferrous metals manufactures £795 - 000. JULY IN RECENT TEARS, (in million pounds.) 1935 1936 1937 1938 Imports ei.B 68.7 83.5 73.0 Exports 36.4 40.1 47.6 37 4 Ke-exports 4.0 5.0 6.8 4.5 Total 102.2 113.8 139.9 ~USA Excess of imports over total exP°rts 21.4 23.6 31.1 32.0 SEVEN MONTHS COMPARED, (la million pounds.) 1935 1936 1937 1930 Imports 422.6 472.1 569.2 544 6 Exports 242.9 247.8 298.5 2705 Re-exports 32.8 37.3 47.1 86.6 _ Total 698.3 757.2 914.8 861.7 Excess of Imports over total exP«*s 146.9 187.0 223.6 237 5
FALLING OFF.
Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 192, 16 August 1938, Page 9
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