CANADA’S EXPORTS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 April 1938, Page 3

CANADA’S EXPORTS

FIGURES FOR TEN MONTHS. OTTAWA, Canada. Canada’s domestic exports increased 4.2 per cent during the ten months of the fiscal year from April to January inclusive as compared with the corresponding period of the previous fiscal year, the value being 935,853,799 dollars, as compared with 898,063,781 dollars.

Foreign countries took Canadian merchandise to the value of 491,867,199 dollars as compared with 471,542,665 dollars, and Empire countries 443,986,600 dollars as compared with 426,521,116 dollars. Both groups recorded business increases of slightly more than four per cent. . The United-States was Canada’s best customer during the ten months, taking goods of Canadian manufacture to the value of 382,290,215 dollars, as compared with 360,098,908 dollars; the United Kingdom was second with a value of 354,302,080 dollars (354,394,266 dollars). The total to Australia was 26,870,094 dollars, as compared with 22,810,505 dollars; Japan, 21,848,483 dollars (17,656,501 dollars); Belgium, 13,696,841 dollars (21,352,442 dollars). New Zealand was next in order with 13,277,082 dollars, as compared with 9,516,710 dollars; British South Africa, 12,725,358 dollars (12,391,300 dollars); Netherlands, 11,810,300 dollars (9,619,613 dollars); Germany, 9,805,428 dollars (6,097,056 dollars); British West Indies, 9,582,643 dollars (7,367,481 dollars); Newfoundland, 8,377,788 dollars, (6,952,341 dollars); Argentina, 6,687,895 dollars (3,173,563 dollars); France, 6,217,391 dollars (10,167,066 dollars), and Norway, 5,353,090 dollars (6,037,386 dollars).