Exports to Australia and Canada, the next largest markets, showed marked increases, shipments to the former country in the first six months of this year amounting to $9,538,990, against $1,950,916 in the last half of 1939, and exports to Canada amounting to $7,050,759, against $2,656,656.
Sweden, which in the last half of 1939 bought less than $500,000 worth of aeronautic products from the United States, took just under $5,000,000 worth in the first six months of this year.
A total of 1,532 aircraft, valued at $95,261,402, was among the aeronautic products exported in the first half of 1940. This virtually doubled the shipments in the last half of 1939. Fowered land planes numbered 1,22! for a total value of $79,469,433. In addition, seventy land planes minys engines and 225 planes to be a: bled abroad were exported,
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