DOMINION TRADE RETURNS

Taranaki Daily News, 17 December 1930, Page 9

DOMINION TRADE RETURNS

IMPORTS STRICTLY CURTAILED.

BALANCE OF EXPORT VALUES.

. i.in—- ■ The Dominion’s exports for the. nine indnths 1 ended September 30, 1930, aiiioilntcd to £37,131,080, and imports for the saine period to £33,348,543, leaving an excess of exports of £3,782,537. Figures for the corresponding period Of last year were: Exports, £45,654,779; imports; £36,354,414; .excess of exports, £9,300,365. Exports for the period, reports the Government' Statistician, were £8,523,699 less than during the corresponding period of 1929, due Plainly to a decline in W'p&l exported of 94,065 bdleS, and also fo a fall in price, the declared value being '. £7,001,346 less than in. 1928-29. Cheese also fell considerably—-by 42.052 cwt. in quantity and £461,822 in Value. Notwithstanding .an increase of 223,219 cwt, in blitter shipments, 'tho declared value fell by £78,906, In the following items also an increase in quantity, but A decline of value Was recorded.: Sheepskins, increase 1,100,724, decrease £279,528; Calfskins, increase 21,091, decrease £22,861; talloW, increase 2363 tons, decrease £17)425, Decreases in both quantity ahd Value were recorded in: Honey, 2,194,0131 b., £76,556; beef, 33,767 cwt., £18,809; peas, 33,308, centals, . £24,963; ckttle hides, 12,062, £105,651; Opossum skihs, 20,429, . £23,078; rabbitskins, 2,100,573,.. £167,085; phormium < fibre, 2750 toils, £9-2,864; coal, 56,528 tons, £73,995; kauri gum, 662 tons, £40,582; timber, 6,222,113 superficial feet, £67,921.

Increases of note occurred in the following ekporte: Casein, 19,769 cwt., '.£28,054; ’ &mb, 227,623 cwt.,’ £188,874;. Inutton, cwt.,-, £269,344 ;\ pork, 13,993 cwt.; £28,846;.’ sausage casings,. 716,5861 b., ■£126,315;, app1e5,13,575,877 lb., £198,864;. gold, 15,724 oz., £65,628 . Imports dropped. by £3,005,871, as compared With the figure for the corresponding period of 1929, practically half of - this decline being associated With, the motor trade. The number of motor, vehicles (other than motor-cycles) imported fell from 22,005 to 12,902, the corresponding values, being £3,279,035 and £1,888,448. Other declines of some magnitude were as follows (1030 figures shOWn first with those for 1029 in parenthesbs): Motor-bicycles, '£197,770 ( £145,963); tyres, tubes and covers for All motor vehicles, £624,310 ( £,800,820); other parts for motor vehicles, £176,434 ( £205,265); raisins. , £103,740 ( £136,230); sugar, £574,508 ( £657,253); tea,. £568,456 (£7.29,581); cigarettes, £333,818 ( £444,054); seeds, £130,960 ( £189,-. 426); apparel and ready-made • clothing, £1,799,138 (£1,856,856); boots and shoes, £772,050 ( £807,9'80); miscellaneous drapery, (. £334,176); silk, etc., piece-goods, £831,237 ( £053,302); 'woollen piece-goods, £519,037 (£624,754); bags and sacks, £336,101 (£383,005); wool packs, £101,531 ( £131,401); paints, etc., £281,7'53 (£332,787); coal, £171,595 (£204,638); galvanised plate And sheet irOn and Steel, £330,105 ( £400,7651; .iron and steel tubes, pipes 'and fittings, £330,320 ( £395,404); .fencing wife, £144,658 ( £185,084); engineers’fools, £84,187 (£137,006); sulphur, £71,861 (.£114,878); phosphates, £403,080 (£554,565); other manures, £116,600 ( £146,610); pianos, £26,787 ( £69,232); other musical instruments, £237,664- (£334,06'8). Increases of note in the imports, were aS follow: Specie, £275,662-( £5); railway And tramway plant, £324,690 (£211,870); copper wire, £132,446 ( £70,327) dairying machinery, 48'5 (£115,964); electrical machinery, £1,271,851 ( £1,169,306); timber, other than sawn, £213,335 (£67,792); crude residual oil, £366,541 ( £251,783); arms, ammunition and explosives, £102,181 (£153,915). Of the total exports of' £37,131,080, British countries accounted for £83,570,304, a percentage of 90.41, which compares with 83.93 per, cent, for the corresponding term of 1929. .The United Kingdom’s share was £20,231’860, equal to 78.73, per cent, of the total, as compared With 73.77 for a similar term of 1929. Other export customers of some magnitude during the. period were (percentages for corresponding nine months of 1929 in parentheses): Canada, 6.44 (4.60); United States, 5.01 (7.23); Australia, 3.56 (4.14) ; France, 1.29,'(3.76); Germany, p. 97 (2.39); India, 0.93 (0.69). Of imports aggregating £33,348;543, British countries supplied £22,873,078, equal to 68.59 per cent, of the total, as compared with 67.01 per cent, for the first nine months of 1929. The United Kingdom’s share ( £15,630,258) represented 46.87 per cent, of the total, which compares with the Corresponding 1929 percentage of 45.42. Other 'countries from Which the Dominion drew considerable supplies were (percentages for corresponding period of 1929 in parentheses)': United States, 17.71 (19.53); Canada 8.87 (9.65); Australia, 7.55 (6.52); Germany, 2.20 (1.87); India, 1.75 (1.91); Ceylon, 1.69 (1.08); Dutch East Indies. 1.64/(2.70); .France; 1.50 (1.56); Japan, 1.39 (1.33); Belgium, 1.11 (1.40); Netherlands;’! 0.76 (0.61); Switzerland, 0.70 (0.70); Sweden, 0.68 .(0.54); Italy, 0,64 (0.50).