EXPORTS BY BRITAIN
3 Per Cent. Rise For Quarter (Rec. 7 p.m.) r LONDON, May 10. British exports for the first quarter of this year were worth £718,000,000 3 per cent, above the exports for the last quarter of 1951, tne Board of Trade journal said to-day. The journal said that this volume was not likely to be maintained over the second quarter, as the Australian import cuts limited exports there to 14 per cent. Almost all of the first quarter increase was caused by greater exports to the sterling area. These totalled £390.000,000, compared with £376,000,000 in the last quarter of last year. Dollar exports fell to £74,000,000 from £81,000,000, mainly becjfuse of lower exports to Canada. Textile exports fell by 14 per cent, in volume and 11 per cent, in value to £119,000,000. Machinery exports, at £113,000,000. rose by 15 per cent, above the average last year. Engineering exports rose by 5 per cent, above tha previous quarter.
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Press, Volume LXXXVIII, Issue 26728, 12 May 1952, Page 7
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