WOOL FOR AMERICA
BOUGHT IN AUSTRALIA
Wool shipments from Australia in the period from.July 1, 1936, to January 31 1937, amounted to 1,674,915 bales. More than 175,000 bales .were shipped to the United States, which is now fourth on the list of. the wool customer countries. The shipments to Japan were 39,324 bales, compared with 472,966 bales in the seven months ended January 31, 1936. ' Britain took 715,872 bales, or more than 42 per cent, of the total wool exports this season to the end of January. The principal wool-using countries of Europe—Belgium, France, Germany, and Italy—increased their imports from Australia this season. The increases in the shipments to these countries and to the United States more than compensated for recent enforced reduction in shipments to Japan. In the following table the shipments to' the principal wool-importing countries for the period July 1 to January 31. 1936 and 1937, are as follows: — Bales. Bales. ' ' 1936. 1937. Britain .'... 595,991 715,892 Belgium 227,211 299,492 France 168,850 185,994 U.S.A 36,237 175,025 Germany 59,981 79.404 Italy ' 7,105 57,367 Japan 472,966 39,324 The total shipments last season for I the period July 1. to January 31 were 11,697,417 bales.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 56, 8 March 1937, Page 12
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194WOOL FOR AMERICA Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 56, 8 March 1937, Page 12
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