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Trade Gain

3W Caledonia’s trade in the first six months of 1956 represented a net gain over that in the parable period last year, lief imports were coal, cement, Dl and oil, wine, flour, rice and r; chief exports chrome, cement, el (ore and refined), trochus L coffee and copra, ckel-ore exports were a record pared with those over the last years; 303,400 tons of ore were ped, most of it going to Japan, pared with the first half of (there was an increase of nearly 100 tons and, if the rate is maintotal exports will exceed 00 tons. ports of refined nickel, however, eased by 1,200 tons matte and tons fonte nickel compared with first half of 1955. Chrome, too, ted a drop—of 17,000 tons, istralia supplied the greatest ortion of imports (coal, sugar, and flour). France bought * from the colony, followed by an.