AUSTRALIAN COTTON FOR JAPAN
The first shipment of Queensland raw cotton to Japan has left Brisbane. Hitherto all the'surplus Queensland cotton crop has been shipped to the United Kingdom, so that it is an interesting development in Australia's export trade with the East. The trial shipment, which comprises 100. bales,;has been mqde by Mitsui Busan Kaisha, Ltd., of Sydney, by arrangement with the Queensland Cotton Board. This company is one of the oldest and largest exporters of Australian wool to Japan,-and claims to have started the export of Australian wheat to Japan and China. Japan is a bijr consumer of raw cotton, imports amounting to 3,500,000 bales annually. .The bulk conies from America, India supplying about a third Certain factors favour Janan cultivating imports of raw cotton from Australia, and the result of this, trial shipment from Queensland will be watched with interest.
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Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 123, 27 May 1933, Page 16
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143AUSTRALIAN COTTON FOR JAPAN Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 123, 27 May 1933, Page 16
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