BRITAIN'S EXPORTS

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 2, Issue 244, 2 December 1940, Page 8

BRITAIN'S EXPORTS

STILL DELIVERING THE GOODS MONTH'S TOTAL UP BY £1,365,485 "The Nazi flag has been driven from the seas while, our flag flies everywhere. Our export trade has been maintained with all parts of the world outside the territories occupied, by the ,enemy." This message from the British Minister for Overseas Trade, ' Mr Harcourt Johnstone;, M.P., has been generously confirmed by the export figures for August subsequently announced, During that month the United Kingdom exported £32,554,729 worth of goods, or, £1,365,485 worth more thaxi during July. The total exports for the first eight months of the year were of a value of £312,630,969. There are many striking increases over the same period a year ago: Over £5,000,000 worth more of chemicals, drugs and dyes; nearly £3,-. 500,000 worth more cotton yarns and manufactures; almost—2,soo,I 000 more of woollens and worsteds; silk and artificial silk is up by close on £2,300,000'; pottery and glass by. over £2,000,000; cleetrical goods by over £1,500,000. * "After twelve months of war," the Minister for Overseas Trade declares, "Britain is still delivering the goods to her overseas customers, German bogus offers to South American countries to deliver German goods in September and October 'when Britain has been defeated' cut no ice in the face of our solid trade achievements. 'IThe facts are that there is* 1 no sign of a single German ship delivering a. single bale of goods anywhere across the Seven Seas.'*