FALL IN EXPORTS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXXII, Issue 76, 31 March 1941, Page 4

FALL IN EXPORTS.

FEBRUARY TRADE FIGURES. IMPORTS REDUCED AGAIN. A fall in the value of expoits. to lirst fur some niont.h.-.. (ffliti; to .-• i>on:i] n.'li:eiues, anil a fiirtlirr Pollution in the v.-iluc of imports are features •■: the overEc.is tr.ulo for !•"<■!imary. a snimmary of wliicli was i-smil by the Customs Department in Wellington f-ilav. Export* amounted to f.'i.mjti.lHK). eompated ivit.li .CB.II.VH»O in tin- _eorresp.,iKling niotitli last year, and imports were £I.!Hil.noO n-rninst C:?.:M7/mVi. Thr> excess of export.- over imports was CajW.fKK), eonipareil with r-I.7f>S.fM>) m JVbmarv. 1040. Given belmv is a comparison of the returns for February tor the 11351 five years (nr commodities, fieurrs bctns in N>u Zealand currency. — I- XCrsS of Exports. lmr>oru. Exports. Fr>i. £ £ £ 1937 ... 7.731.001 3T.3.000 4.018 000 19.7K . . 5.716.000 4.3J.fi 000 1 320 000 1930 6.172.000 4.75S 000 1.377 000 1840 . 8 115.000 3 347.000 4 768 000 1941 . 5.360.000 1.561.000 399,000 Figures for the first tvro months nr 1941 with those for tile rorrcspondmK period last vear in parentheses arc:--Exports: £12.731.000 (£14.435.0001: imports. £5.045.000 ( C 7.330.000); excess of exports. £7.fi86.000 (£7.105.000). Appended is a comparison of the two-month!* period since 1937: — Excess of Jan - Exports. Import* exports Fell. £ £ £ " 1937 14.771.000 8.378.000 fi 393 000 1938 . 13.209.000 9.980.000 3 229 OCO 1939 12.383.000 9.518.000 2.865000 1940 14.435.000 7.330.000 7 105 000 1941 12.731.000 5.045.000 7.686!o00 Kelurns for Season. For the first eUtht months of the production year, which opens in July, exports are greater bv £t2.949.000 than for the same period in 194o" bemc at a record hich level. Imports for the same -non:!* arc irearer by £3.727.000. The figures for the rieht months, compared with those of the preceding six seasons are: — ~,,., ~ Excess of Feb" Imports Imports. exports. 1934-35 25.374.000 23.181.000 2 193 000 1935-36 30.778.000 .'K.153.000 4 626000 1936-37 37.293.000 32 652.000 4.641 «£ 1937-38 37.822 000 40.414.000 ••> 59-.'ojX 1938-30 33.452.000 37 831.600 M iff 000 939-40 35.062 000 28.530.000 7 13*000 1940-41 48,611.000 32.257.000 iSJM.OOO * Excess of imports.