INCREASED TRADING DONE

Taranaki Daily News, 17 September 1934, Page 5

INCREASED TRADING DONE

RETURNS FOR UNITED KINGDOM.

EXPORTS AND IMPORTS REVIEW.

(British Official Wireless. Rec. 5 p.m. Rugby, Sept. 14. Board of Trade returns for August show an expansion both of imports and exports compared with August, 1933. Imports were valued at £60,027,060, an increase of £2,000,832 compared with July and £3,351,783 compared with August, 1933. Exports totalled £32,090,009, a decrease of £139,612 over July and an increase of £1,093,261 over the total for August, 1933. The value of re-exports for the past month was £33,301,597.

In the first eight months of 1934 imports totalled £479,444,259, an increase of £49,281,061 compared with the corresponding period of 1933. Exports at £255,089,324 showed an increase for the eight months of £18,910,595. The increase in the volume of imports during the past eight months of nearly £50,000,000 is heaviest in the category of raw materials and unmanufactured articles, which, compared with the corresponding period of 1933, show an advance of £27,554,964. Articles wholly or mainly manufactured increased by £17,626,342, food, drink and tobacco by £4,015,220. Exports during the eight months of articles wholly or mainly manufactured show an advance of £15,091,088 on 1933, while raw materials exported increased by £1,831,076 and food, drink and tobacco by £1,980,815.