BRITAIN'S FALLING TRADE.
GREATER LOSS THAN ANY OTHER Statistics published in Berlin recently of German trade in 1003 allow of a comparison ot the trade losses of the four chief countries last.year. Hitherto it has only been possible to give the figures for foreign countries of the nrst eleven months of last year. The figures are as follow:— ; IMPORTS. 1908. Dec. on 1907. £■ £. United Kingdom ... 593,140,000 52,667,000 TrTVk I •'• *35.000,000 20,000,000 United States. ... ... 023,257,800 01,400,000 * rance 2-13,500,000 5,250,000 EXPORTS. ■■■■■' 1008.. Dec. on 1307. £. £ United Kingdom ... 377,219,000 48,815,000 Germany 340,000,000 5,000 000 United States 350,610,000 34036000 trance .... ... ... 210,750,000 W.OOO^OO The total decrease in exports and imports together is as follows:—. ■••■«■ 1 ■'■ £. United' Kingdom ... ... 101,182 000 ttT'WV '■• - - 25.000.000 United fetates ... ■ ... .... 95,436,000 I'ranee ... ......... ... 18,250,000 The following was the percentage of tho decline ot imports and exports ia 1908 as coinpared with thefiguros of 1907, showing the proportion of the decrease -in the various States and its gravity:—' ■ ■ Imports. Exports. Per Cent. Per Cent, United Kingdom . ..: 8.1 11.4 Germany 4.6 1.4 United States ... ' .;. 20.8 8.8 France 2.1 5.8
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Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 449, 6 March 1909, Page 15
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174BRITAIN'S FALLING TRADE. Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 449, 6 March 1909, Page 15
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