REAL IMPROVEMENT
INTERNATIONAL TRADE
(Britlsb Official Wireless.) RUGBY, May 17. Although the general expansion shown in the overseas trade returns for April is attributable in considerable degree, as for some time past, to rising prices, the increase is such as to. point, to a real and continued improvement in international trade. Reduced to working-day averages^ imports in April were valued at £3,187,342, compared with £2,777,651 in the same month of last year. Exports were valued at £1,654,886, against £1,392,797 a year ago, and reexports at £279,788 and £246,752 respectively. Of the total increase of £9,599,887 in the value of exports of United Kingdom: goods last month compared with April, 1936, £7,348,674 is accounted for by exports of manufactures, and the cotton, iron, and steel industries show large increases. Exports of cotton yarns and manufactures in April were valued at £5,855,168, a rise of £1,252,195 over the previous, April. In the first ouarter of 1937 47.2 per cent, of the exports went to British countries, compared with 48.4 per cent, in the same period (If 1936.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 117, 19 May 1937, Page 11
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175REAL IMPROVEMENT Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 117, 19 May 1937, Page 11
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