BRITISH EXPORTS FOR DECEMBER

Rotorua Morning Post, Issue 5309, 23 January 1947, Page 5

BRITISH EXPORTS FOR DECEMBER

(Press Assn-

OWER than imports need for increased OUTPUT REVEALED 1

-Rec. 9.80 p.m.)

LONDON, Jan. 22. Britain's exports for December, according to the Board of Trade, were three «er tent grealer than the monthly average of 1938. The j,est month in 1946 was July when the figures were 20 per eert sreater than in 1938. The avevage value of experts was 83 000,000 wbich was £9,000,000 >ss' tluin Xovember. Imports were il7.000.000 which is £7,000,000 tlian November. Over £5,000,000 lorth of impoi ts were re-exported. he values for 1946 were: Imports, 1 og8,HOO.OOrt of which £50,000,000 ,0rtb wa.s re-cxported, and exports, 912,000.000. Exports of goods produced or manufactured in the United Kingdom, at £911,700,000 was nearly double the 1938 figure of { £478,000,000 and was the highest eVer recordtd except for 1920, but the volume of exports was no higher than in 1938. The Government aims at increasing the volume by 75 per cent over the pre-war period. Irou aml strel experts to India, ustralia and New Zealand were iuch lower th:»n before the wai', ndia oontinued to be the largest tarket for nurhinery with South .frica A ustralia took 13,835 f the 1 ti.itOS inuiur car chassis that Iritain exported and New Zealand ook 70l>ll naitf.-r ears. Exports oi' imported merehandise italled £50. 300,000 as against 61,500,00(1 in 1 938 but the reducv ion of volume was nearly threefth?. Lloyd's iiyutcs show that British hipyanls are building more than lalf the world's nierehant tonnage nd more than at any time since 922.