TRADE STATISTICS.

Taranaki Daily News, 18 February 1922, Page 5

TRADE STATISTICS.

EXPORTS AND IMPORTS. HEAVY DECREASES. The imports into New Zealand for the three months ended December .31 last totalled £7,539,568, including £74,405 specie, as compared with £18,416,184, including £5910 specie in the corresponding quai of the previous year, a shrinkage of £10,876,616. Imports from United Kingdom were £3,752,628, against £9,574,219, from Canada, £192,309 against £631,535, from Australia £1,426,454 as compared with £2,359,508, and from the United States £1,207,135, as against £3,539,212. The following table gives the exports and imports for each quarter for the past two years. The figures are exclusive of specie:

Quarter. Exports. Imports. £ £ March, 1920 ... 11,408,278 9,780,006 June, 1920 .... 11,400,284 14,385,433 Sept., 1920 .... 12,350,475 18,978,140 Dec., 1920 . .... 11,246,329 18,410,274 March, 1921 ... 13,196,514 15,638,982 June, 1921 .... 14,008,276 12,518,667 Sept., 1921 .... 9,261,620 7,121,310 Dec., 1921 .... 8,362,050 7,465,163 The imports exceeded the exports for four successive quarters beginning with the June quarter of 1920, and for those quarters the imports exceeded the exports by the substantial total of £19.219,227. In the last three quarters of last year thrf export® exceeded the imports by £4,526,806. The exports and imports for the two calender years, inclusive of specie, show as under: Year Exports. Import'. £ £ 1920 .... .... 46,441,946 61,595,828 1921 .... .... 44,828,827 42,942,443