BRITAIN STILL AHEAD.
(From Our London Correspondent.) LONDON, February 23. A Board of Trade return issued on February 20th, id interesting as showing the commercial progress of • other nations as compared with Great Britain. The figures relate to the imports and exports of 1906, and though they are subject to rectification in several cases they show on the whole that Britain's extraordinary trade development last year was unrivalled. In the tables, the imports in all cases except that of the United States are intended to represent goods for home consumption only —that is,excluding re-exports—while in all cases the exports refer to articles of domestic consumption. The Belgium returns relate only to principal articles. IMPORTS FOR THE YEAR. | 1906 1905 £ £ U nitecl Kingdom 522,625,000 487,240,000 Germany 392,527,000 358,441,000 United States 275,222,000 245,655,000 France 209,177,000 191,156,000 Belgium 123,023,000 116,698,000 EXPORTS FOR THE YEAR. United Kingdom 375,673,000 329,817,000 Germany 306,250,000 286,582,000 United States 360,825,000 333,213,000 France 201,747,000 194,675,000 Belgium 97,647,000 87,706,000
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8404, 19 April 1907, Page 7
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158BRITAIN STILL AHEAD. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8404, 19 April 1907, Page 7
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