BRITISH TRADE WITH RUSSIA.

Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 114, 16 May 1934, Page 12

BRITISH TRADE WITH RUSSIA.

The Moscow Narodny Bank Review reports that, according to the figures supplied by Soviet trading organisations in Great Britain, orders placed and purchases made in that country in February, 1934, amounted to £902,863, as compared with £673,401 during the same period of last year. The increase was thus by more [than 34 per cent. The following is a list of the principal goods purchased in February, 1934:—Machinery and equipment, £04,075; steel and ferrous alloys, £84,120; non-ferrous metals, £290,572; rubber, £189,365; textiles, £17,166; tea, £175,834; miscellaneous,.£7s,73l; total, £902,803. All commodities, with the single exception of non-ferrous metals, showed a considerable rise this year. The number of British vessels chartered in February by the AngloSoviet Shipping Co., Ltd., was 19, of 147,630 tons, and the sum paid in freights was £103,583. The total number of vessels chartered by the company was 29, of 218,000 tons, and the freight paid was £145,509. • This compares with a total of 16 vessels chartered by the company in February, 1933, of which only four were British. The total tonnage chartered in February, 1933, was 140,980, and the sum paid £81,363. The British share of tonnage in February last year was 33,200 tons, and Jlie amount received Has £24,182, • •