TRADE WITH INDIA

Waikato Times, Volume 116, Issue 19430, 3 December 1934, Page 9

TRADE WITH INDIA

CANADA ALERT.

BRIGHT future predicted.

(Reuter’s Special Service.) ( WINNIPEG, October 28. A .bright picture of trade relations between Canada and India was painted by Mr R. T. Young, Canadian Trade Commissioner at Calcutta, when he passed through here on his way back to India after five months in this country. Mr Young expects to sail from the Pacific Coast on November 3. Canadian exports to India were almost doubled In the past year, totalling £BOO,OOO up to the end of ' June, he said, and prospects for the ' future were equally bright. The chief commodities that Canada ’ sells to India, he explained, are motor cars, rubber goods, zinc, smelter, aluminium circles and ingots, together with a large quantity of foodstuffs, mostly canned goods. Mr Young combined business with pleasure during his furlough. He conferred with manufacturers all over advising them of the needs of ■The great Indian market. Later figures issued by the bominion Bureau of Statistics bear out Mr Young’s prediction for the future. For instance, during September this year Canadian exports to British India amounted to £77,000 —an increase of no less than £42,400 over September last year. India’s trade with Canada has shown a corresponding increase. This September it amounted to £99,800 — in increase of £32,000 over September- last year, imports from Ceylon luring the same period aggregated E 43.400 compared with £21,200. The two major commodities India sells to the Dominion are tea and woven fabrics of jute. Canada also buys considerable quantities of Indian rioe, spices, wool carpets, mica and wax.