A LARGE INCREASE

Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 112, 13 May 1937, Page 12

A LARGE INCREASE

A. ANCLO-RUSSIiN TRADE "'-The'Trade Delegation-of the U.S.S.R. in Great BritainNeiforts ..that Orders ■ placed in Great Br^m in February Of this -year ■ amounted in value to £2,289,465, as comparted with £845,070 S Fphruarv. 1936. {'Machinery and iuFpment ryforr„ed mU than 61 per cent of the purchase^ during the past month- The folio wins table shows the tir°ncipal orders placefl in the first two months of the calendar year:— * ■ - ■ - ' _ I Jan.-Feb., Jan,-Feb., ■* , . ' 3 1930. 1937. *,*-■ ) £ £ Machinery and equip- i --^-^ „ mm .Nr^rous-meuis ■;•::» 325,017 484,016 Steel and ferrous alloys ; 1,144 Rubber * • ■ * V 1 oco Viq riT> flfll textiles (raw materials) ! 262 048 u9-,oji Chemicals, ;. £,! fa 122,'50i) . :" 'j!" " '■3_jA^ -J^E ■■: Tota i ."d1,100.303 £4,760,388 7As Veen'in the abovk figures, the pur- ' c-heses this .year. wer E . more than. four ttals those of 1936. TWhile machinery andequipment formed: the principal purchase* fjn ■ the. period under - conSderation,.next.,in importance were rubber,, textile raw irijatemls, and nonferrous metals. •' L 3 ■ r,„,,rlc Orders, for misccfalaneous goods, although accounting for only £143,753. v£re considerably hifeher than m previous, years, and r.eriresented a more than fourfold increase,? over the first two months of 1936. ]