OVERSEAS TRADE

Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 67, 16 September 1936, Page 11

OVERSEAS TRADE

BRITISH EXPANSION IN

AUGUST

(British Official Wireless.)

RUGBY, September 14.

Allowing for seasonal influences overseas trade continued to expand in August. Imports amounted to £66,057,087, as compared with £68,731,020 in July and £59,146,232 in August last year. Exports totalled £35,258,115, against £40,085,922 in July and £34,883,955 in August, 1935. Reexports were £4,355,909, compared with £4,991,716 in July and £4,185,561 in August a year ago. Although the figures for imports, exports, and re-exports are all lower than in July, they represent an increase on August of last year and also on August, 1934* For Hhe first eight months of this year imports totalled £536,624,391, an increase of £57,579,713 on the Corresponding period of 1935. Exports for the eight months totalled £283,170,234, an increase of £5,433,283 compared with 1935 and of £28,080,910 compared with the corresponding period of 1934. Exports of manufactured goods have risen by £4,707,641. Principal increases in August were: Imports, grain and flour, £1,161,000; dairy produce, £347,000; beverages, £462,000; wood and timber, £440,000; iron ore, £313,000; cotton and raw waste, £1,677,000; iron and steel, £416,000; oils and fats, £417,000. Exports, vehicles, £413,000. Decreases: Imports, fresh fruit and vegetables, £832,000; rubber, £630,000. Exports, coal, £414,000; iron and steel, £391,000. ■