BRITISH OVERSEAS TRADE
EXPORTS AND IMPORTS INCREASE RECORD RETAIL BUSINESS (British Official Wireless.) Press Assoiiation—By Telegraph—Copyright RUGBY, April 28. The Board of Trade has now calculated the volume of overseas trade in the first quarter of the year, compared with the corresponding periods of 1936 and 1935, by revaluation of the trad© of all three periods at the average values of the whole of 1935. .Comparing the first quarter of this year with the first quarter of last year, the exports of United Kingdom goods increased in volume by 10 per cent., re-exports declined by 4.5 per cent., and imports increased by ,2.5 per cent. There was a record increase in retail trad© in March. The total daily sales were 15.2 per cent, higher than in March, 1936. Stocks were 3.7 per cent, higher and employment 3.1 per cent, greater.
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Evening Star, Issue 22636, 30 April 1937, Page 9
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