BRITISH TRADE

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLVI, Issue XLVI, 4 March 1914, Page 4

BRITISH TRADE

The London correspondent of a contemporary, in referring to British trade for last year, says that it established a new high level. The imports for the twelve months aggregated £769,----033,959, an increase of £24,393,328, and l the exports totalled £525,461,416, an! increase of £38,237,977 over 1912. The increases recorded by the 1913 totals i over those ior 1911 are even more remarkable, the imports being £88,876,----432, and the exports £71,341,118 above those for 1911. Practically every class of goods increased last year among the imports. Articles of food, drink, and tobacco rose by £9,809,473; raw materials and articles mainly, unmanufactured increased by £6,256,323; while articles wholly or mainly manufactured were up to the extent of £8,139,328. A notable decrease was one of £9,----668,449 in imports of cotton as compared with 1912, while the largest increase was one of £7,664,355 in imports of meat, including animals for food. As regards the exports for 1913, articles of food, drink, and tobacco were down by £78,048; raw materials and articles mainly unmanufactured increased by £10,478,975, an increase of £11,074,182 in coal, coke, and manufactured fuel, being slightly discounted by small declines in various other classes; 'while articles wholly or mainly manufactured marked an improvement of £26 z 543,830, iron and steel and maufectures thereof being £6,730,615, cot ton £4,986,801, new ships £4,004,074, and machinery £3,869,567 up, as compared with the totals for 1912. The exports of foreign and colonial merchandise amounted to £109,655,718/ a «rop of £2,081,973, though the total showed an increase of £6,896,584 over the 1911 figures.