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Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 140, 10 December 1931, Page 10

IMPORTS OF BKLGIAX ORIGIN'

EXPORTS TO BELGIUM. Exports of Now Zealand produce to Belgium in the same years are as follows:— 10 months, 1029. 1030. 1031. £. £ fi Sausage casings . 3,922 — — Beef, frozen — — — Calfskins 12,143 22,444 2,388 Cattle hides .... 8,26« 21.93S 17,135 Ratntsklns 569 — 160 Sheepskins 29,151 43.04S 27,809 Wool 182,819 92,002 BG,OU nenip 2.652 2,026 — TalloW 4,723 11,840 291 Kauri gum 1.729 JOT — Total exports .. 248,703 1!>!),O-1S 135.557 BUTTER AND FRUIT EXPORTS. In conversation with a "Post" reporter to-day, the Belgian Consul, M. Nihotte, said that tho imports of butter into Belgium from all countries totalled 12,500 tons in 1920, and 10,000 tons in 1930. For the first six months of the current year the imports amounted to 6000 tons. During the month of September last there was a re-export of butter from London to Belgium of 320 tons of butter, practically all of which was from Australia or New Zealand.

It is understood that arrangements are to bo made by tho New Zealand Fruit Export Control Board for shipments of apples to bo made direct to Antwerp, and. that in that case a still further reduction in the duty will be made.

10 months, 1929. 1930. 1931. £ £ £ App*r«l and hosiery 20.102 18,592 4,814 Purs <ires»d 4,683 8,185 867 Cotton and linen piece goods 43,776 50,935 19,019 Silk piece goods 11,492 6,225 2,471 Bdotj, shoes, grindery, and laces 2.675 8.004 812 Electrical eflutpment 53,627 43,928 9,463 GUts, plate and Sheet 40,791 33,013 11,690 Glauware 8,071 10,788 2,071 Paper 22,352 18,307 8,196 Precious atones ,. 10,265 24,697 14,430 Manures 304,483 173,954 163,034 Mbtor-Tehldes and parts 8,55fi 4.S63 7S6 Matches 12,941 10,097 6,603 Firearm? and ammunition .. 5,361 -1,"!H 1,300 Carpets ami linoleums 3,!>."0 2,i:il J,.",75 ■>Vooll»n piece good gj-j.nrr 2.om firs , Total imports 5gr;iS3 418,752 ZW;S&T