Fiji Trade Shows
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Favourable Balance
FIJI trade figures for 1950 created a new record and were over £1 million greater than in 1949.
Total trade for the year was £14,772,501 (£13,834,843 in 1949); imports were nearly £7 million and exports nearly £8 million, with an excess of exports over imports of £851,257 (£147.111 in 1949).
In 1944 the value of imports was about £2 I million and exceeded exports by over half a million pounds.
In 1950, chief exports were sugar, 114,254 tons, valued at £37 million; copra, 10,158 tons valued at £554.401; coconut oil, 10,083 tons valued at £946,281: gold and silver valued at £1,429,107.
Over 80 per cent, of exports went to the United Kingdom and other Common wealth countries.