Fiji's Import Flood
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FIJI’S January-February imports totalled more than £F2,500,000, according to figures released in June.
Main item was manufactured goods (£750,000), followed by food stuffs (£617,000) and machinery and transport equipment (£500,000).
Exports and re-exports totalled £1,366,500, with re-exports at slightly under £185,000.
Imports from the United King dom totalled £1,000,000 and from Australia nearly £750,000.
Of the exports, Canada took more than £500,000, almost entirely in raw sugar. The United Kingdom took more than £250,000.
In 1954, the Colony had an ad verse trade balance of £402 816 The year’s imports totalled £11.642 801an increase of 9.64 pc over 1953