AMERICAN EXPORTS RISE BY 33 PER CENT.
DURING WAR. Big Increase In Cotton And Aircraft Sales. ALLIES HEAVY BUYERS. . United Press Association.—Copyright. (Received 1 p.m.) WASHINGTON, April 7. The Commerce Department has revealed that the United States' exports in the first six months of the war rose 33 per cent, and totalled 1,949,000,000 dollars, compared with 1,460,000,000 dollars for the six months between September, and February, 1939. Britain and France took 24 per cent of the total. The gains in cotton, aircraft, metals and chemicals compensated fur the Allied restrictions on grain, fruit, timber, gasoline and automobiles. The exports to Canada anil Latin America increased 47 per cent each and Asia 33 per cent. Cotton sales to Europe totalled 181.538,000 dollars, a rise of 133 per cent, and aircraft sales !U,000,000 dollars, compared with 31,000,000.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 83, 8 April 1940, Page 7
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