So to arrive at a conclusion about the effect of foreign trade on the German balance of payments it is necessary to know what foreign trade was done by the Protectorate alone, apart from its trade with the Reich. These figures would then have to be added to those of the Reich.
This is admitted in the official comment with the information that the missing figures are compiled in Prague and would accordingly be published in Berlin later. But they had already appeared in the newspapers in Budapest.
Even these figures, however, enable no true comparison with the past, seeing that all previous statistics concern Czechoslovakia, of which the Protectorate is only a part.
Taking the Prague figures as they stand, however, the total foreign trade done by the Protectorate during the six weeks' period from the middle of March to the end of April was imports 852,000,000 Czech crowns and exports 1,205,000,000 crowns. Imports from the Reich, Austria and Sudetenland aggregated 404,000,000 crowns, and exports to these regions 413,000,000 crowns. So that the foreign trade done with countries other than the present Reich was imports 448,000,000 crowns and exports 792,- 000,000 crowns. Allowing two-thirds of this as the proportionate share for the month of April, ie., imports 299,- 000,000 crowns and exports 528,000,000 crowns, and using the official rate of exchange Rm.1=10 crowns, it is found that the Reich trade figures for April should be augmented by imports Rin. 29,900,000 and exports Rm.52,800,000, making a total for the whole present Reich of imports Rm.- 432,500,000 and exports Rm40,300.- 000, leaving an export surplus for April of Rm,58,000,000.
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