RISE IN EXPORTS

Auckland Star, Volume LXXII, Issue 172, 23 July 1941, Page 11

RISE IN EXPORTS

RETURNS DURING MAY FIGURES FOR 11 MONTHS Exports during May totalled £6,644,000, an increase of £1,629.000 over the same month last year, according to the return of overseas trade for the month issued by the Customs Department at Wellington yesterday. Imports were £5,536,000 a decrease of £13,000. Returns for May in the past five years are:— May Exports Imports Excess £ £ £ l<n« ••"• 1?2?'252 4,441.000 1.484.000 1(81 i2U'2°2 4.184.000 2.057.000 }11l ■••• fS7f*22S 5338.000 1.340.000 1940 .... 5.015,000 5,549.000 '534.000 1941 6,644.000 5.536,000 1,108 000 * Excess ol Imports. A comparison of the five months ended May in the past five y«ars is as follows:—

With exports for the first 11 months of the production year, which closed on June 30, at £60,453,000, there is a good prospect that the record level of £65,859,000 reached la ;t season will be at least equalled. The June value of exports has usually exceeded £5,000,000 and last year reached the abnormal figure of £9,494,000. Figures for the 11 months compared with those in the four previous seasons are:—

May Exports Imports Excess JJ2I 36.607,000 21,787.000 14.840.000 J938 31,393,000 23.526.000 7,867.000 }£39 31.637,000 22,989.000 8,648.000 J? 40 35.138.000 19.971,000 15.167.000 1841 ... 31,344,000 18,374.000 12.970.000

July-May Exports Imports Excess £ £ £ 1936-37 59.128.000 46.116.000 13,012.000 1937-38 56.006.000 53.960.000 2.046.000 1938-39 52.706.000 51.302.000 1,404.000 1939-40 56.365.000 41,171.000 15.194.000 1940-41 60.453.000 42,502,000 17.951.000