E.E.C. Takes More New Zealand Wool

Press, Volume CI, Issue 29894, 7 August 1962, Page 19

E.E.C. Takes More New Zealand Wool

The European Economic Community continued to in- | crease its share of New Zea- ; land's wool exports in March. ! Wool entered for export io ’ the E.E.C. countries in ' the nine months ended June totalled 467.450 bales, or 39.3 per cent, of the total of 1.188.849 bales exported. In the eight months , Id February the E EC. share at the total was 38.6 per cam., and in the nine months io March last year the E.E.C. share was 363 per cent. The U.K. share declined to 39 3- per cent., compared with 38 6 per cent, in the eight months ended February' this year and with 36 3 per cent, in the nine months to March last year. ‘ March shipmen’s totalled 160,432 bales, compared with 209.563 bales in March of last year. In the nine months to March shipments totalled

1,188.849 bales. 150.006 bales or 114 per cent, above the comparable 1960-61 figure. Details, of quantities entered for shipment io the principal destinations, and the share of tile total this year and last year, are as follows;

Nine months ended March. E E.C. .. 1963 “000 . A Of bale* total 437 ’ 33 total36 U.K. 3M ‘31 ' . S3 L’JSA. .. m 16 -13 Japan 72 6 Communist 27 2 3 Other 63 5 5 . ' Totals .. 1189 too 100 '