BRITISH EXPORT VALUES
INCREASE FROM LAST YEAR (I^ C -, 9 - 30 P-m.) LONDON, Nov. 6 British exports rose in value by ’ per cent, in the first half of thia year, compared with the first half of 1953, and broadly kept pace with the expansion of world trade, the Board of Trade Journal said today, in a sum- °. f sterling area trade. The increase in volume of British exports during the period was 9 per cent., the Journal said. It said that the value of imports “Y Britain and the colonies was slightly less in the first half of thisyear than in the first half of last year. But the other sterling countries increased their imports by 8 per cent. Exports from Britain to the sterling area were 15 per cent, more in the first half of this year than in the same period of 1953. the Journal said During the 1953-54 season Britain took only 622.000.0001 b of raw wool compared with 692.000,0001 b in the previous season, a drop of 10 per cent. British raw wool consumption dropped by 6 per cent, between these two periods.
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Press, Volume XC, Issue 27501, 8 November 1954, Page 11
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