The report of the British Chamber of Commerce for the Netherlands East Indies on the import trade of those territories for 1938 gives the total value of imports during the year as F1.486,000,000 and of exports FI.665,000,000, giving an export surplus of F1179,000,000, compared with a surplus of Fl452.- 000,000 for 1937, says the "Financial News" of July 6.
The import total compares with the 1937 figure of F1498,000,000 and the export figure with a total of ¥1.950,000,000 in 1937. The percentage of imports to exports was 73.08, which compares with 5242 per cent, in 1937 and is the highest import proportion since 1931.
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