Tokyo, May 13.
With a 13 per cent. increase in exports as compared to the corresponding period of last year, Japan's trade with East Asia in April resulted in a favourable balance of Y.57,250,000, the Ministry of Finance announced today. The total amount of trade was 1.167,048,000, an increase of 5 per Tent over April last year. Exports amounted to Y.112449000, imports to Y.5199,000. The latter showed a seven per cent. decrease as compared to the same month last year.
The total excess of exports over imports from January to April amounted to Y.187,003,000, an increase of Y.68,639,000 over the corresponding period in 1938.—Domei.
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