FOREIGN TRADE.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 222, 19 August 1937, Page 9

FOREIGN TRADE.

EFFECTS OF SPANISH WAR. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, Aug. 17. In the first six months of this year 41.3 per cent, of the imports into the United Kingdom came from British countries as compared with 41.5 in the corresponding period of 1936. The percentages of United Kingdom exports going to British coiintries 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 marked increase. The value of imports from the Argentine was £34,000 000 as against £20,800,000 in the first half of 1936. . , „ Imports from Chile ill the two halfyears were valued at £5,100,000 and £2,900,000 respectively. There was also a considerable increase in United Kingdom exports to the United States, which rose from £12,600,000 in the first half of 1936 to £16,500,000 in the six months to June last.

The 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 and £990,509 worth in the same period of 1936, whereas this year in the first six months United Kingdom exports to Spain only amounted to £560,319, and in the same period of three years the goods from Spain imported into the United Kingdom were valued at £2,891.565 and £3,812,981 and £2,549,513 respectively.