BRITISH TRADE.

Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 192, 16 August 1939, Page 6

BRITISH TRADE.

EXPORTS AND IMPORTS. ALL-ROUND INCREASES. "ADVERSE" BALANCE £219,000,000 (Received 11 a.m.) LONDON, August 15. The British Board of Trade returns for July show that the vdlue of imports was £78,270,000, exports £40,355,000, and reexports £3,725,000. Principal increases, compared with July, 1938, were: Imports other foods, £632,000; wood and timber, £716,000; raw wool, £761,000; iron and steel manufactures thereof, £1.153,000; nonferrous metals manufactures, £787,000; machinery, £467.000; other textile manufactures, £718,000; oils and fats, £055,000; paper cardboard, £504,000. Exports: Coal, £509,000; iron and steel manufactures thereof, £497,000. Decreases; — Imports: Meat, £863,000; dairy produce, £1,544,000; fresh fruit and vegetables, £555,000. Beverages: Cocoa preparations, £775.000. Exports: Machinery, £439,000. Nonferrous metals manufactures, £716,000. JULY IN RECENT YEARS. (In million pounds.) ladft. 1987. 1038. 1030. Imports 68.7. 85.5 73.9 78.2 Exports 404 47-6 37.4 40.3 Re-exports ..... g.Q 6.8 4.5 3.7 Totals 118.8 130.0 115.8 122.2 Excess of imports over total exports 23.6 31.1 32.0 34.2 SEVEN MONTHS COMPARED. (In million pounds.) 1036. 1037- 1038. 1030. Imports 4724 560: a 544.6 527.7 Exports 247.8 298.5 270.5 276.4 Re-exports ..... 373 "474 36.6 81.7 Totals 757.2 914 8 851.7 835.8 Excess of imports over total exports 187.0 223.6 237.5 219.6