WORLD TRADE.
TRENDS IN 1938. Received February 20, 12.35 p.m. GENEVA, Feb. 19. The gold value of world trade in 1938 was 13.4 per cent, less than in 1937. The net difference was 9 per cent, owing to the fall in gold prices. Exports decreased by 13-J per cent., including England and Australia, 10 per cent. ; New Zealand, Canada and Japan, 15 per cent. Imports decreased by 13.2 per cent., including Britain, 11 per cent.; Japan, 29 per cent.; America, 35 per cent.; Czechoslovakia, 26 per cent. Germany’s trade increased by 11 per cent., and Russia’s and Australia’s by 4 per cent.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LIX, Issue 70, 20 February 1939, Page 8
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102WORLD TRADE. Manawatu Standard, Volume LIX, Issue 70, 20 February 1939, Page 8
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