EMPIRE TRADE.
BOARD OF TRADE RETURNS. MARKED INCREASE SHOWN. (Official Wireless.) RUGBY, May 18, Returns published by the Board of Trade reveal that the proportion of the imports from British countries in the January-Alarch quarter showed a marked increase as compared with tho corresponding period of 1931 and 1924. British countries also took a slightly larger proportion of United Kingdom exports than last year, and a considerably greater share than in 1924. , During the first quarter or the current year, 34.48 per cent of the United Kingdom’s imports were consigned from British countries. In 1931 and 1924 the proportions were 30.13 per cent and 30.69 per cent respectively. In the same period 43.83 per cent of the United Kingdom’s exports, against 43.018 per cent. In the first quarter of last year and against 40.94 per cent, in the corresponding quarter of 1924, were absorbed by British countries.
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Waikato Times, Volume 111, Issue 18640, 19 May 1932, Page 7
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