INCREASED TRADE

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20074, 21 October 1939, Page 6

INCREASED TRADE

COAL OF BRITAIN VOLUME OF EXPORTS NORWAY AND SWEDEN SUPPLY FOR DENMARK

(K]i>r, Til. <'o',:yi'i,nb 1 (P.rilish Oflicinl Wireless.) Rcc. 1 p.m. RUGBY, Ocl. 20. Between September 1 end October 10, licenses for the export of coal to Sweden were issued for 815,000 tons. The normal monthly average of British coal exports to Sweden is 221,000 tons. In the same period 446,000 tons have been licensed for export to Norway and 837.000 tons to Denmark, compared with the peace-time figures of 113.000 tons and 250,000 tons respectively. This is an interesting demonstration of the British intention, made clear in the early days of the war, to maintain and if possible increase the general exports. Export licenses arc being freely issued, although in the first tew weeks there were inevitably some delays. Incidentally the figures given above dispose of the idea, which is being ’ sedulously propagated in certain ! neutral markets by Nazi agents, that | Britain will be unable to keep up her ; exports. Germany's external trade having ; been, in effect, on a war footing for j years, her export trade arrangements i with those countries to which she is I still able to send goods have not shown the temporary dislocation which, in the British case, is due to the imposition of war controls. But Germany’s position as an exporter in i the war is likely to suffer more scri-i ous, far-reaching and lasting, if for 1 the present more gradual, dislocation ! on account of the increasing difficulties she is experiencing in maintaining the quality of her exports and j fulfilling orders.