Statistics just published in the August bulletin of the International Tin Research and Development Council, issued by the Hague Sta-fistical Office, show that 82,600 tons of tin were produced in the first half' of the current year against 94,600 tons in the first half of last year. World production in July is mated at 11,600 tons, the average over the first six months being 13,770 tons. World apparent consumption of tin in the first half of this year, at 80,900 tons, was about 17% per cent. below the figure for the first half of 1937.
The most severe decrease was in the United States of America where tin consumption fell by 42.1 per cent. as compared with the first half of 1937. In the United Kingdom there Shipments of gold, totalling $40, 000,000, arrived in New York today, it was reported. This figure constitutes the largest total amount arriving in any one day for the past two years—Reujer.
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