OVERSEAS TRADE

Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 95, 16 January 1936, Page 9

OVERSEAS TRADE

British Figures Show AII-

Round Increase

.RETURNS FOR LAST YEAR

(British Official Wireless.)

(Received January 15. 5.5 p.m.)

Rugby, January 15.

Board of Trade returns of overseas trade for December and for the year 1935 show that exports-last year >vere higher than in any year since 1930, and imports and re-exports, higher than in any year since 1931. Exports for the whole of 1935 totalled £425,921.343, an increase of £29,935,822 over the figures for 1934. Imports were £756,936,175, an increase of £25,522.392. and re-exports amounted to £55.265.376. an increase of £4.022,029. The increase in exports affected nearly all categories. Exports of machinery, at £38.495.459. were £5,689,109 higher than in the previous year. Vehicles worth £4,189.973 more than the year before were exported, totalling £28,332.128. Exports of iron and steel, at £37,093.242. of non-ferrous metals, at £14.085.471. and of cot f on goods, at £60.177,625, were £2,001,189. £2,195,669 and £1.530,597 higher respectively. In December as in every other month of last year, exports were higher than in the same month of 1934. They totalled £34,917,068, compared with £39.399,994 in November, in which there were a greater number of working days and £34,300.382 in December. 1934. Imports for December reached £74,480,626, against £71.455,483 in November and £63.240,187 in December, 1934. Re-exports last month were £5,432.397, compared with £4,571,962 in November and £3,605,689 in December. 1934.