Tahiti's Trade
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Doubled Last Year
From Our Own Correspondent
Papeete, Jan. 27.
\ NNOUNCEMENT of the exports frcm and the imports into French Oceania, covering the first nine months of 1936, as compared with the same period of 1935 reveal the following:
All copra exported in 1936 was sent to France.
Phosphates from the rich island of Makatea (within the colony—l2s miles north-east of Tahiti) were exported to Japan and Sweden —81,890 tons to Japan, and 12,802 tons to Sweden.
Exports
1935 1936 Met. tons Francs Met. tons. Francs Copra 13,791 7,701,000 16,156 14,548,00 Phosphate 95,961 — 101,092 ■— Vanilla 614* 1,374,000 624* 2,673,000 Shell — — 501* 124,000 * Metric hundredweight.
Imports
1935 1936 From Francs Francs France 3,366,000 9,329,000 Colonies 202.000 190.000 Foreign 13.409.000 17.370.000