HIGHEST FOR YEARS
TRADE IN 1940
BRITISH OVERSEAS RESULTS
(British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, January 30. The return of British overseas trade for December shows imports of £73,574^85 compared with £72,930,436 in November and £86,584,859 in December, 1939. Exports were £24,397,058, against £21,666,181 in November and £40,168,628 in the previous December. Re-exports were £653,168, compared with £723,241 in November and £2,501 ; 577 in December, 1939. The total imports for 1940 reached £1,099,868,877—the highest for more than 10 years, being nearly £70,000,000 higher than the previous peak year in that periojd, 1937. The total of exports for 1940 is the highest, at -£413,084,205, since 1934.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXI, Issue 27, 1 February 1941, Page 11
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103HIGHEST FOR YEARS Evening Post, Volume CXXXI, Issue 27, 1 February 1941, Page 11
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