IMPROVING WORLD TRADE

Dominion, Volume 27, Issue 74, 20 December 1933, Page 11

IMPROVING WORLD TRADE

League of Nations Figures STILL WELL BELOW 1929 AVERAGE (British Official Wireless.) Rugby, December 18. An increase in world trade is shown by flgjires in the League of Nations statistical bulletin. The total experts during October were 16.3 per cent, above those of April, and imports increased by 8.3 per Tlie bulletin adds that while there is a continuous improvement in world trade, the value of October exports was 37 per cent, of the 1929 average, and that of Imports only 36 per cent. BRITAIN AND INDIA Trade Improvement Shojvn (British Official Wireless.) Rugby, December 18. The Secretary for India, Sir Samuel Hoare, stated in the House of Commons that the value of imports into India from the United States 5 was nearly £3,000,000 greater in the year ending March, 1933, than in the previous year. Although in the six months ended September last, Were was a decline in comparison with the corresponding period of the previous year, the proportion of the whole import trade obtained by the United Kingdom rose from 35.5 to 36.8 per cent, in the first period, and to 41.1 per cent, in the second period. ONE MILLION BOXES Huge Order for Tin Platea (British Official Wireless.) (Received December 19, 7 p.m.) Rugby, December 18. An order for one million boxes of tin plates has been received from Canada by the Richard Thomas group of companies in South Wales. The order will give employment in the tin-plate trade alone to 10,009 men for ten weeks.