TRADE GAINS

Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 13, 16 July 1934, Page 8

TRADE GAINS

BRITAIN IN CANADA

An exhaustive analysis of the Canadian textile situation, so far as imports are eoncerne'd, made by the Hon. H. H. Stevens, Minister of Trade ;md Commeice in Canada, shows important gains in sales of British; goods in that Dominion- ~undcr ; the.- cneouragement. of tho; Empire tradoiagrcements signed in pttawa twolyCa'rs'ago.^;^^.. ; : :-' : . ; '.;■'■. ;>• Imports' of all "c,oni'mo.3ities sfr6in!.thc; United j-Kingclbiffiu- w;Me-j"£i17,256,000' in 193.2-33; .and ,^ijpppj.OOO 4.ijl 1933-34, an increase of- 21;7 J)er;een.t. Tijxtiles.-alouc advanced if rdni ■£5^109,0p6 Joi;: £ 7;'000,000,~ ithe increase; beijig\3i£.ii. percent.1.;; In 193Q';Grcat vfintaiiuiittd ■46v6;.per cent, of :th'e ..Gaiiaaian>.uiipois* market' ifor wholly or partly ihariiifactured;t.extiTes, nnd. other, coiuitries \-. r oZ^i ? per-XMjeut. Through British^ pr'efeience? given by Canada' the : ppsition.>last year, vas that Britain, had. 62, per ieit. oSlthe jbusiness and other countries 88 s(Jr^:pnti: ■, In.. 1932 Canada imported fropi the United Kingdbni',:B,944j2op;;sguare "jpards of -woollen and worsted'lslotti,' jind' last year 9,678,500 yardsi;-' Tops-bf. the same origin increased in the sainavperiod f rpm 0,589,000 pounds toi ■ 8^16,5.00 p6.iinds, • worsted yarns from 2';699;200 pounds to 3,003,700 pounds. ,-:'; v;^' " ' In the. first .fOui'iUiQn.thS; of 1933 there were impojted from- Britain.-12,075,000 square yards of pieeo' goods.- Imports of this material had more than\ doubled in. the corresponding, period of the present year.. '-.."■..' vr~•'' ,- *