U.S. $138,388,046 Total in First Six Months of 1940
States Commerce Dept.
Washington.
United States exports of aeronautics products in the first six months of this year increased over the same period in 1939 by 182 per cent to a total of $138,388,046, the Department of Commerce reported today and by about 100 per cent over the last half of 1939 and 17 per cent over the value of shipments for the entire las! year, states the "New York Times.
Two leading markets, France and I the. United dom, took 68 per cent of the total exports in the first six months of 1940. French purchases for that period amounted to $75,375, 565, compared with $32,472,687 in the latter half of 1939, and only $10,122,055 in the first six months of that year. United Kingdom purchases, on the other hand, remained virtually unchanged in those periods—$8,167,967 in the first six months of 1940; $18,- 604,228 in the last six months of 1939, and $16,190,572 in the first six months a year ago.
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