Europe Sells Britain More During Strike

Press, Volume CVII, Issue 31540, 30 November 1967, Page 15

Europe Sells Britain More During Strike

(N.Z.P.A.-Reuter —Copyright; LONDON, November 29. Europe sold Britain £25 million more last month than in September, in spite of the wildcat dock strikes which elogged imports through London. Board of Trade statistics, published yesterday, show that the two European economic groups—the Common Market and the European Free Trade Association—increased their combined October exports to Britain to £2Ol million, partly because they had alternative south and east coast ports into which they I could send their goods.

The United States increased exports by £1 million and Indian sales were up by £5 million, but every other country selling to Britain dropped millions of pounds worth of trade last month, when Liverpool as well as London suffered dock strikes. Common Market country sales jumped from September’s £99.9 million to £115.5 million, while the E.F.T.A. countries increased their sales from £76.7 million to £85.4 million. But Australian sales slumped from £12,299,000 to £7,863,000, and New Zealand’s from £11,967,000 to £4,945,000.