Fiji’S Trade Rises
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Imports and Exports Each Show £120,000 Increases
From Our Own Correspondent
Suva, Aug. 3.
FIGURES just published in the Royal Gazette show that in the first six months of 1937 the value of imports into Fiji increased by £127,002 over the same period of 1936, while exports showed an increase of £123,942. Excess of imports over exports was £109,982.
Detailed figures are as follows:
Imports
1936 1937 Value £710.595 £837,597 Duty £191,886 £217,940 Wharfage £5,409 £6,ft! 1 TrfJwiage Duty £1,666 £1,714
Kxports
19*6: Quantity Value Slxgar 28,010 tons £265,724 Copra 14,591 tons £165,624 Molasses 8,895 tons £8,396 Cold 7,524 ozs £57,972 Bananas 10,165 bunches [ 84,996 cases ( £47,517 Trochus Shell 127 tons £9,638 Other articles — £48,803 Total Value £603,673 1937: Quantity Value Sugar 29,479 tons £301,225 Copra 14,945 tons £235,157 Molasses 7,843 tons £7,843 Cold 8,609 ozs £67,266 Bananas „ 8,956 bunches [ 71,052 cases ( £32 848 Trochus Shell 101 tons £8,954 Other articles — £74,322 Total value £727,615