BRITAIN'S TRADE
IMPORT AND EXPORT FIGURES.
(UNITES PRESS ASSOCIATION.—COPIRIGHT.)
(AUS. ASD N.Z. CABLE ASSN. AND REUTIR.)
LONDON, Bth January.
Board of Trade returns show the imports in December to have- amounted in value to £169,000,000, and the exports to £90,000,000, increases of £53,000,000 and £52,000,000 respectively compared with December of 1918. The imports in. 1919 amounted to £1,632,000,000, and the exports to £798,000,000, representing increases of £315,000,000 and £297,000,000 compared with 1918. The principal increases for the year in imports were:— Food, £142,000,000; .raw materials, £188,000,000, of which £40,000,000 represented cotton and £65,000,000 wool. The increases in 'exports were:—Coal, £40,000,000; manufactures, £225,000,000, including £60,000,000 worth of cottongoods "and textiles, and £48,000,000 worth of woollens.
[Tho imports of Great Britain in 1914 amounted in value to £696,635,000 and the exports to £626,195,523. In 1918 the imports wero £1,319,338,000 and the exports £529,429,000.]
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Evening Post, Volume XCIX, Issue 8, 9 January 1920, Page 7
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141BRITAIN'S TRADE Evening Post, Volume XCIX, Issue 8, 9 January 1920, Page 7
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