BRITISH TRADE RETURNS

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 182, 19 August 1937, Page 7

BRITISH TRADE RETURNS

Exports to Spain Drop (British Olliciul Wireless.) • j EUGBY, Aug. 17. , , iirst six months of this year .41.3 per ecnt. of the imports into the iUnitcd Kingdom came from B'ritish 'countries as compared with 41.5 in the , eorresponding period of 193G. The pereentages of United Kingdom exports going 'to British countries in the same periods were 47.5 and 48.6 respectively. In trade with foreign countries for .the first half of the year, imports from South American countries showed a markcd increase. The value of imports f'roni the Argentine was £34,000,000 as .against £20,800,000 in the first half of |1936. Imports from Chile in the two half years were valued at £5,100,000 and . 1-22,900,000 respectively. There was also a considerable in:crcase in United Kingdom exports to jthe United States, which rose from '£12,600,000 in the first half of 1036 to ;£16;500,000 in the six months to June last. ■ Th'e effects of the civil war in Spain on Anglo-Spanish trade were very obvious. In the first half of 1935 Spain took £1,465,412 worth of British goods hnd £990,509 worth in the same period of 1936, whercas this year in the first six months United Kingdom exports to Spain only amounted to £560,319, and in the same period of threo years the goods from Spain ' impGrted into tho United Kingdom were valued at £2,891,,565 and £3,812,981 and £2,549,513 reIspectively.