BRITAIN'S SUPREMACY.
LEADS ALL COUNTRIES ! IN i'THE RACE FOR TRADE. ' ; ~< - A British Board of-Trade return just issued gives some ■ interesting comparative res m', n ire6artl '' to ' fcho rwiord trade year 1907.:. ~'i'ho result is to •show-that.-both in the aggregate ,of ' oVerSoa transactions and in the sum of increase over tho previous year the United Kingdom held'by far the highest; portion among" commercial nations. In the following' tables .the figures concern only article? for home consumption and (goods of domestic production -.— \ ' ' IMPORTS. ■'1907. . Over 1906. •' - ' £ . ■ United Kingdom ... 553,932,000 . 31,146 000 . feL .vv -v 422,707,000 23,297,000.; United. States ... 296,526,000 ; 21,421,000 ■France-/\ 7.. 2141,906,000 /16,816,000 EXPORTS.'.'United Kingdom, .'.7426,205,000 50,630,000 Germany v ..., ; ... 337,722,000 . 25,070,000 United States.'.. 394,881,000 .25,565,000 France ...221,681,000 1i,013,000 'The volumo/of.British oversea trade during 1907 is thus" slio\Vn to havo reached the enormous total ,of £980,137,000, an increase of over 1906 of ;£81,776,000. : ,
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 170, 11 April 1908, Page 10
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