BRITISH EXPORT TRADE

Evening Star, Issue 22367, 17 June 1936, Page 11

BRITISH EXPORT TRADE

SUBSTANTIAL INCREASES RECORDED (British Official Wireless.) Press Association—By Telegraph-Copyright RUGBY, June 15. The total exports for the first five montus of this year were £175,852,585, an increase of £2,274,544 over the corresponding period of last year and £lB,244.500 over the first five months of 1934. Imports for the same period of this and the two preceding years were respectively £335,667,912, £302,072,560, and £301,311,350. Re-exports, at £27,391,671 for the five months, show an increase of £3.750,690 over the corresponding period of 1935 and £2,683,878 over 1934. HIGH LEVEL OF IMPORTS (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY. June 16. (Receive'd June 17, at noon.) The high level of the imports, which show an increase over May of •• t year of £4,650,000, equal to 7.2 per cent., is the outstanding feature of the overseas trade returns for the past month. The returns show signs of improvement in the British export trade, especially in manufactured goods, although the increase for the five months of the current year was only £2,265,000, " or 1.3 per cent. The increase last month alone was £1,189,000, equal to 3.3 per cent. In the re-export trade the increase last month was equal to 1.3 per cent.