The Ottawa preferential trade agreement expired on August 21, when the five years term ended. Another imperial Conference will discuss its amendment and renewal. During its currency—and, Federal Ministers claim largely because of it—trade between Great Britain and Australia increased by £28,000,000.
Latest English Board of Trade figures show that Australian exports to the United Kingdom, for 1936, reached £61,390,831 sterling. In 1932 the Ottawa Conference year Australia sold Britain goods worth £45,992,342, sterling.
Britain's exports to Australia were valued at £32,271,047 in 1936, compared with £20,020, 106 in 1932.
Australia's chief trade benefits were in meat, dried fruits, canned fruits, dairy produce, eggs, minerals and wine.
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