Ireland’s Trade

New Zealand Tablet, 18 January 1912, Page 43

Ireland’s Trade

The continued growth in Ireland’s external trade is well illustrated vin the Parliamentary ■/* returnissued recently,/f showing the imports and exports at Irish ports for the year 1910 (writes the Dublin correspondent of the Sydney Freeman’s Journal). For the first time the exports exceeded the imports, the excess being £800,000: . • - j . I Comparing the figures of 1910 with those of 1909 we get the following results:-Imports: 1909, £63,780,000;. 1910,;-£65,044",000. Exports: 1909, £60,946,000; 1910 £65,844,000. Increase in 1910; Imports, £1,264,000; exports, £4,988,000. Thus, in 1910, the external trade of Ireland, mainly : with Great Britain, reached the satisfactory total ■of £l3o,Bßo,ooo—an increase of no less than £27,098,000 compared with 1904. ‘ As - regards ’ exports, there has been a substantial increase in manufactured goods as well as in farm produce. Under- these headings, the exports last year, with the increases on 1909, were as follow:— 1910: Farm produce, £35,452,000; increase, £1,257,000. Manufactures, £26,253,000; increase, £4,161,000. Live stock alone accounted for £15,547,000 in exports, while piece goods, apparel, and drapery contributed £17,444,000. _____ " •