DROP IN EXPORTS AND IMPORTS
UNITED KINGDOM’S TRADE BALANCE FIGURES FOR FIRST QUARTER (British Official Wireless'] RUGBY. 17th April. United Kingdom exports in March were valued at £41.634,577, compared with £42,155.373 a year ago. Imports amounted to £77,976.374, against £84.853,649 in 1938. and re-exports to £4.423,288 against £5.468,269. The figures for the first quarter of the year are: Imports. £218.543,318. which is a decrease of £26,741,727 over the same period last year, and of £ll,*399,275 over the same period of 1937: exports. £119,129.085, which is a decrease of £1.740.854 over last year, and of £1.991.531 over 1937. Re-exports. £18.284.658, which is a decrease of £1,507.834 over last year and of £4.467.177 over 1937. The fall of £1,740.854 in exports for the same period last year was entirely accounted for by manufactured goods, which declined by £2.313,741. This, however, was partly offset by an increase in food exports of drink and tobacco. The largest single item to show a decrease was iron and steel —£2,959.674 —and next came cotton and yarn—£1.575.373. Coal showed a fall of £409.708. though there was an increase of £959.876 compared with 1937. Among manufactured goods showir# an increase was vehicles, including locomotives. ships and aircraft —a rise of £2.941.447 against the first three months of 1938.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXII, 19 April 1939, Page 5
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