BRITISH TRADE RETURNS

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXIII, 25 October 1940, Page 5

BRITISH TRADE RETURNS

EXPORT LEVEL MAINTAINED BIG INCREASE IN IMPORTS [British Official Wireless] RUGBY, 23rd October. The outstanding feature of British overseas trade returns for September, in spite ot the intensification of enemy action, is that the rate of export of United Kingdom goods has been fully maintained. Exports were valued at £31,177.290, against £32,554.429 in August and £28.361, 245 in September last year. Reexperts were £1.191,742. compared with £1,391.960 in August and £2.370.678 in September last year. Imports were £80,632,023. against £95.019.856 in August, and £49.894,916 in September last year. For the first nine months of the year the export total was £343.594,375, an increase of £6.885.412 over the corresponding period of last year, but a decrease of £3.065.245 compared with 1938. imports were £873.692.246, an increase of £217.086.109, compared with the corresponding period of last year, and an increase of £18.678.535 over the first nine months of 1938.

IMPORTS FROM UNITED STATES

FIGURES FOR WARPLANES WASHINGTON. 21st October. Warplanes exported to Britain in the first year of the war totalled 743 and were valued at 53.000.000 dollars, plus aircraft parts valued at 18,000.000 dollars. The highest total was in August, when 278 planes, valued at 20.000,000 dollars, were exported. Exports of all commodities to Britain in the first year of the war totalled 780.000.000 dollars, which is 57 per cent, above the previous year. They conj sisted principally of war materials. Britain is now taking 36 per cent of all the United States’s exports.