TRADE OF BRITAIN.
FIGURES FOR AUGUST.
FURTHER DECREASE SHOWN
LONDON. Sept. 11. The preliminary Board of Irade returns show a further setback in the overseas trade in August. Imports were valued at under .£80,000,000 compared with more than £100,000.000 in August, 1929, and exports at £42.000,000 compared with more than £63,000.000 in the same month last year. The value of imports decreased by £21,071.000, of exports by £20,267.000, and of re exports by £2.678,000. The principal decreases werelmports : Grain and flour, £2,974.000; meat., £1,960.000; non-dutiable food and drink, £2.643,000; wood and timber, £1,038,000; raw cotton, £1,538,000; rubber, £1,394,000; non-ferrous metals, £959,000 Exports: Coal, £760,000; iron and steel and manufactures thereof, £1,966,000; cotton yarns and manufactures, £5,465,000; woollen yarns and manufactures, £2,219,000.
Following is a comparison of the returns for the first eight months of this year and last year:— I!)''!). 1!):i0. Imports .. £790.!) 11.000 1701i.HM.000 Exports . .. •175,800,000 ,W,!)(iH.000 He-exports .. 81.(111,000 (iWHG.OOO Total export® .. £'557,420,000 £ 101.'254, 000 The apparent adverse balance of trade is C 245.628,000, compared with £194,494,000 !-s' vmi
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20668, 13 September 1930, Page 11
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