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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 210, 24 May 1918, Page 5

Tho introduction of « new fisonl arrangement in Franco led to some interesting figures being published regarding that nation's motor busiiwss. Until tho outbreak of tho war Franco occupied tho position of leading motor-car exporting nation of tho world. Thoreforo, tho manufacturers an: anxious thai; no system of taxation should handicap them in the keen competition which will tako place when the war is over. Word recently received here place French motor-car export figures in 19)3 at J2!),M)0,(!00. Nest in order camo America, with an export total of slightly over /;6.O00,0W). England was third on the list, mid exported about. J?5,Ofll),0l)0 W orth of rar-. Germany's trade in'exporting cars whs in the region of ,£4,nftO,flflO, thus securing fourth place among the nations. Italy came next to Germany, and her total was about n, third of that country '3 eipoit figures,