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Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 May 1955Vol. XXV, No. 10

Fiji's Imports Up,

p. 27 · Read in the full issue

Exports Down

CREASED imports and de creased exports gave Fiji an adverse trade balance of 1,816 in 1954. nports totalled £11,642,801, an ease of £1,094,174 (9.64 per cent.) : the 1953 figure, xports totalled £11,239,985, a de ise of £1,940,713 (6.79 per cent.), he drop in export values, ac iing to a Government state it, was due mainly to smaller orts of raw sugar. The quan was lower by 40,943 tons, led at £2,211,836, usar exported in 1954 totalled 927 tons, worth £5,494,294. he value of all agricultural ex ts in 1954 was £8,600,332, which ; £2,166,710 lower than in 1953.