BRITISH TRADE
(Australian and N.Z. Cable Assn.) LONDON, Jan. 8. The Board of Trade returns show that the imports in December were £169,000,000, and the exports £90,000,000. increases of £53,000,000 anri £52,000,000 respectively compared with December 1918. The imports in 1919 were £1,632,000,000 and the exports £798,000,000, representing increases of £315,000,000 and £297,000,bOO compared with 1918. The principal increases for the year in imports were:—-Food £142,000,000, raw materials £188,000,000, of Which £40,bOO,OOO were expended on cotton and £65,000,000 on wool. The increases in exports were'. Coal £40,000,000, manufactures £225,WK),000, including £60,000,000 Worth of cotton goods, and ’textiles, and £48,000,000 in woollens. e
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Waikato Times, Volume 92, Issue 14260, 10 January 1920, Page 2
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