EXPORTS SOAR

Auckland Star, Volume LXXIII, Issue 230, 29 September 1942, Page 5

EXPORTS SOAR

BIG JULY TOTAL

IMPORTS ALSO HIGHER

An exceptionally hiph total of rxporl;-. probably an all-time record for th.o month, is a feature of the over,..i trade returns for July, a Miiiinia. ■ of which was issued in \\ f' 1 !":.■ 1 "" tn-.lay and forwarded by the I'-' Association. The figure 1' '' "'• a >'ise of t l,.")«ts,000 " n 11 ,i "' ' '"'i es;)oudiiv4 month la. t Import.-; at 190,000 V'iV ,h; "> for Jtil\, 1 11. ,ind th». favourable balmik.c v.,. u.J') 1.000, n n increase of I.;, I :ti,(iuo and the highest, for some year.:. Follow in'-: is a comparison of the return.- tor July in the past five year;-. — ~ . , Exrcss of Lxporis. Imports. Exports. Ji>f c £, p W8 3. i0.J.000 4 SII.OOO *BUH 000 P. 19 3 557.000 4.162.000 *905 000 5.029 ono 4.0gi.000 oea'ooo J'J' s.inti.ooo 4 338.n00 Bsa!onn I J4 J 1 '51."..n n. 400.000 4.294.000 i \rr.s.s of imports. I'" 1 ' I seven months of the caleriil "' Year exports totalled £53UDl.uiio. a record lor that period, and represent mi; a rise of £11,148,000 on die con c.-ponduig period last year Imports were £-9,758,000, an increase of i::.:it;:i,oou on the parallel period lust .war and the highest since 1039. 'I lie excess of exports over imports vj> l J J 1.1,000, a rise of £7,785,000 on tin' .ime period last. year. A i oniparison of the returns for the m M o months ended Julv m the pu.-L live .war.-, is as follow.-,'; — Jan- Kxp.ir's. lmixiris. Excess July l £ p 13-" 1 •lI.O'.iU.OHO 31.720.(100 llj.uooo 4H.JJII.OUO J2.841).0(10 ',690,100 1 3,10 -W.IXi 1.000 2H.11J0.000 ::u ,'3l 000 "41 41 H!i.l 000 36.30.V000 Ts tlooo 13" 53.001.000 29.7;, 6.000 SJ^J.OOO