OVERSEAS TRADE
j BRITISH RETURNS FOR MAY [British Official Wireless) RUGBY, 19th June. The British overseas trade returns for May show that the totals of both imports and exports are higher than in May, 1933. The total imports were £105.552.962. compared with £109.983,390 in April and £78,509,294 in May last year. The tot;.’ exports amounted ' to £45.499,645, as against £48,299.823 in April and £42,273,350 in May last year. Re-exports fell to £3,213,913 from £4,434,290 in April and £5,012,363 in May last year. The figures for the first five months of the year are: Imports, £522,309,337. lan increase of £ 156,250,608 over the j corresponding period last year. Ex- ' I ports, £213,706,329, an increase of i £17.299,220 compared with the first five I months of last year.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXIII, 21 June 1940, Page 3
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