IMPORTS AND EXPORTS

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 7022, 10 January 1910, Page 5

IMPORTS AND EXPORTS

A YEAR OF REVIVING TEADE BRITISH BOARD OF TRADE RETURNS. INCREASES ALL ROUND. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. (Received January 9, 5 p.m.) LONDON, January 8. The Board of Trade returns for tlic past montli show a considerable improvement on those for the corresponding months of 1908. Thero is an increase . in the value of imports amounting to nearly four millions sterling, while .the exports show an added value of nearly six millions. Figures for the whole year also exhibit the pleasant feature of a large .increase, and Mr Lloyd George, Chancellor of the Exchequer, this week foretells a great boom iii British trade during the current year. The figures for last mouth, compared with those for Deoember, 1908, are as follow: DEOEMBEE TEADE. 1909. 1908. Increase £ £ ' -e Imports ... 60,792,982 56,832,982 3,960,000 Exports ... 33,789,576 29,401,576 1,388,000 Re-exports ... 9,634,526 8,186,526 1,448,000 TWELVE MONTHS' TEADE. (January-December). "• 19D9. 1908. Increase Imports ... 624,834,093 693,140,723 31,693,370 Exports ... 378,379,123 377,219,579 1,159,544 80-exports... . 91,365,069 79,665,669 ■ 11,699,500 TOTAL TEADE FOE EIGHT TEABS. The following tablo bliows the total value of imports and exports during the past eight years: Imports. Exports. 1902 ... 528,391,274 349,238,779 1903 542,600,289 360,373,672 1934 551,038,628 371,015,321 1905 565,019,917 407,596,527 1906 607.888,500 460.677,818 1907 645,904,176 518,176,737 1908 ... ~. 593,140,723 456,885,148 1909 624,834,093 469.744,192