HUGE INCREASE IN EXPORTS
American Sales Since War 1 United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph —Copyright WASHINGTON. April 7. The United States Department of Commerce has revealed that United States exports for the first six months of the war rose by 33 per cent. The total of 1,949.000,000 dollars compares with 1,460,000,000 dollars for the period from September, 1938, to February, 1939. Britain and France took 24 per cent of the total. Gains in cotton, aircraft, metals, and chemicals compensated for the Allied restrictions on grain, fruit, timber, gasoline, and automobiles. Exports to Canada and Latin
America increased by 47 per cent each, and to Asia by 33 per cent. Cotton sales to Europe amounted to 181.538,000 dollars, a rise of 135 per cent. Aircraft sales amounted to 91.000,000 dollars, compared with 31,000,000 dollars.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXLVIII, Issue 21624, 9 April 1940, Page 7
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