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Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 June 1979Vol. 50, No. 6

New Zealand Trade With The Islands

p. 48 · Read in the full issue

1. NZ’s main exports: foodstuffs $3.4m, building materials $2.6m; main imports: fruit juice, fresh fruit and vegetables sl.Bm, clothing $B6l 000. 2. NZ’s main exports: foodstuffs $13.9m, chemicals s3.lm; main imports: sugar $20.9m. 3. Crude fertilisers make up the Gilbert Islands’ exports to New Zealand. 4. Fertiliser (calcium phosphate) makes up almost all of Nauru’s exports to New Zealand. Works of art, the other export, totalled $402.

5. NZ’s main exports; manufactured

goods including machinery, building

materials and electrical equipment $ 10.3 m, foodstuffs $4.5m; main import: coffee s4m. 6. NZ’s main exports: food $3.4m, manufactured goods $3.5m, machinery and transport equipment sl.sm, tobacco and beverages sl.9m; main imports: food and animals sl.2m, copra sl.Bm.

($NZm) Purchases from NZ Sales to NZ 1978 1977 1978 1977 A. Samoa 9.8 5.7 — — Cook Islands 1 10.4 8.4 3.1 3.1

Fiji 2

38.0 34.2 22.2 17.2

F. Polynesia

11.1 10.9 0.054 0.031 Gilbert I. 3 0.972 0.676 3.5 7.0 Nauru 4 0.663 0.481 16.3 14.5 New Caledonia 9.4 7.7 0.053 0.099 New Hebrides 2.4 1.9 0.056 0.002 Norfolk Island 1.5 1.5 0.004 — Niue 2.3 1.6 0.284 0.146

Png 5

16.9 10.6 5.1 2.1 Pitcairn Island 0.070 0.032 0.0002 0.0001 Solomon I. 1.8 1.2 0.430 0.164 Tokelau 0.006 0.004 0.003 0.015

Tonga

7.1 6.1 1.5 1.7 Tuvalu 0.038 0.009 1.5 1.7 W. Samoa 6 12.2 8.7 3.1 3.5