As to Imports for the month, these were totalled $20,813 tons which was 16,620 tons greater than the highest quantity ever before arriving in this Port which was in October last year. Compared with the corresponding month of last year and February imports showed respectively increases of 25,400 tons and 113,800, or for the latter 55 per cent.
Tron' and steel manufactures. led the list, 'These went up by 28,164 tons against March, 1937, being fol-Jowed by sugar, 'Gunny' bags, raw cotton, chinaware and paper. A decrease though was recorded for rice, tobacco, flour, ore, rayon yarn, timber and beer.
Meanwhile for the frst ten days of April Manchoukuo's foreign trade was valued at 29,888,000 yuan as to exports and 39,714,000 of imports, which resulted in am adverse balance of 9,826,000 yuan, Exports and imports as to Japan for this period amounted to 16,512, (000 yuan' and 29,690,000 yuan respectively, the excess of imports over exports standing at 13,127,000 yuan. Exclusive of Japan, exports totalled 19,376,000 yuan and iraports, 10,075,000 being a" favourable balance 3,301,000 yuan.
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