BRITAIN’S TRADE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 26 October 1939, Page 8

BRITAIN’S TRADE

VAST CHANGES BROUGHT ABOUT E:Y WAR. SUPPLIES FROM EUROPE. Vast changes in the normal flow of Great Britain's trade have followed the outbreak of war. The cutting-off of imports valued at over £50,000,000 annually from the enemy, Germany, from Poland, now in German and Russian hands, and from Czechoslovakia, incorporated in the Reich, illustrates the extent to which a reorientation of import trade must be made. Imports to lhe United Kingdom from Germany in 1937 were valued at £36,138,000, from Poland in the same year £10.858,000, and from Czechoslovakia in 1936, £5,837,000. Germany's] principal exports to Britain were glass! and glass manufactures, coal-tar dyes, woollens, hosiery, machinery, toys, rayon goods, chemicals, electrical goods and leather goods. From Poland Britain received prinI cipally eggs, bacon, sawn soft wood and sleepers. Czechoslovakian exports to Britain were confined largely to hats and canes, gloves, boots and shoes and glass. It will be the part of the Dominions to do all they can to supply the deficiency in the imports of the two important food items formerly supplied by Poland.