BOARD OF TRADE
FIGURES FUR AUGUST,
(United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph.—Copvright.) LONDON, Sept. 22. The Board of Trade Returns for August show that imports totalled £81,096,000 and exports £37,076.000. Re-exports amounted to £4,488,000. .The principal increases, compared with August, 1938, were as follow: IMPORTS.
Meat , ... 1,642,000 Iron ore and scrap 744,000 Wood and' timber 765,000 Wool, raw and waste ... 1,093,000 Iron and steel manufactures 1,409,000 Machinery 6,246,000 Chemicals and dyes ... ... 495.000 Oils and fats 739,000 EXPORTS. Beverages and cocoa ... ... 356,000 Cotton, yarns and manufac- , tures 456,000 RE-EXPORTS. Rubber 446.000 The decreases in imports were gram and flour, £2,142,000; exports, machinery, £479,000; re-exports, hides and skins, £574,000.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LIX, Issue 253, 25 September 1939, Page 8
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106BOARD OF TRADE Manawatu Standard, Volume LIX, Issue 253, 25 September 1939, Page 8
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