TRADE FIGURES
INCREASE IN IMPORTS
ABNORMAL FOR OCTOBER
(British Official Wireless.) (Beceived 19th November, 11 a.m.) RUGBY, 18th November. A detailed review of British overseas trade in October, published to-night by the Board of Trade, has special interest in view of the Government's "AntiDumping" Bill. The figures show that, while the increase in imports for October this year, as compared with September, was £12,400,000, the average increase of October over September in the previous four years was only £10,700,000. It is stated that the excess of imports over exports of merchandise in. the first ten, months of this
year was £323,200,000, or £10,400,000 more than the corresponding figure for last year, and that of this increase in the visible adverse balance of trade over half occurred, in Oatober.
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Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 122, 19 November 1931, Page 13
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128TRADE FIGURES Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 122, 19 November 1931, Page 13
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