BRITISH TRADE RETURNS

Stratford Evening Post, Volume II, Issue 242, 13 May 1933, Page 7

BRITISH TRADE RETURNS

London, May 11. 'The Board of Trade returns for April are as follows:—lmporls, £sl, 151.000: exports. £2G,395,000; re-exports £3,537.000. The principal decreases compared with Hie corresponding period of last year were:~lmporls: Meat £392.000, other I Coed and drink £94G,000, raw cotton ' ;P<3pße.r«o, i'-on. steel and the manufactures i hereof E3t1.000. Experts: Other food and drink £4G3,0P0, conl £700,000. machinery £°99,000, cotton yarn manufactures £1 145.0110. woollen manufactures £332,OOo! apparel £407,000, vehicles £1.373.000. increases:—lmports: Tobacco £525.000. wool £291.000, non-ferrous metals and i manufactures £352,000 . Fcr the pnst four months imports j totalled £210.072.000. compared with j ■*2246.9G0.000 last yea-. Experts tolnlled ! «116!il6!o00. ngainsl £ 127.113.000. and reI exports K1G.142.000. ngainsl £20.757.000. j a ltiritQ increase in the exports of j British motor-cars is sheen by the rc~ | turns. During the first fain- months of | this year ear:; vali" d at. £3.337.038 were j sold overseas, compared with £2.240.358 in the corresponding period last year.