N. Caledonia’s Increased
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Trade With USA
OWING to wartime isolation from i France, followed by Lend-Lease and! subsequently by Marshall Aid, New\ Caledonia trade continues to show ai decided North American swing. (Caledonian imports from the United!
States in 1949 were valued at 223,000,000 C francs, and exports to the US were valued! at 105,000,000 francs.
From Australia, formerly the leader ini foreign imports, the French Colony took 3 goods amounting to 133,000,000 francs,,; but Australia bought only 14,000,000 C francs worth of Caledonian produce ini return. Trade with Prance almostd balanced with imports amounting toe 272,000,000 francs and exports to 276,000,000 C francs; but the island could export only\ 11,000,000 francs worth to French from which she took goods worth! 58,000,000. With other countries trades was small—exports to 19,000,000, and im ports 26,000,000 francs—HELP