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Tattersalls
Weekly Survey of the Textile Scene
F. W. TATTERSALL LTD.
No. 1,436
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5th August, 1969.
IMPORTS DOWN.
At the end of the first half of the current year the export- import situation affecting textile goods generally was far more encouraging than at the same stage in 1968. While the cost of imports of all kinds of textiles had increased slightly from £118,789,000 to £123,040,000 shipments abroad had earned £166,106,000 against £142,827,000
In general terms exports were at least maintained in volume and were decidedly higher by value, while the rate of arrivals, particularly of cotton goods, has been sharply curtailed, compared with the very large foreign supplies which came in, particularly in the first quarter of 1968. Changes in import and export trading in cotton and allied products in recent years are shown in the following table:-
Man-Made Fibre Yarn Exp's. Imp's.
Cotton Cloth
Exp's. Imp's.
Man-Made Fibre Cloth Cotton Yarn Exp's. Imp's. Exp's. Imp's.
(in million sq. yds.)
(in million lb.)
1949 904
349
161
1951 864
377
190
LOVLOV
52
82
.N
2
21
3
55
71
14
28
12
1953 710
99
177
44
42
3
31
2
1955
555
299
134
65
47
14
31
1957 456
416
111
73
48
15
44
6
1959 348
537
64
38
31
22
45
4
1961 287
731
49
70
23
44
53
4
1963 223
636
80
63
21
36
81
1964 209 766
91
94
21
41
97
1965 205
588
95
88
15
1966 167
587
65
93
16
1967 138
660
71
125
16
1968 152
707
74
147
18
www w
31
91
34
95
40
105
37
131
तला
16
33
34
34
35
70
1st half
1967 76
324
39
57
00
8
22
56
15
1st half
1968 76
410
37
76
9
18
65
31
1st half
1969 76
277
43
79
10
21
74
55
Among the features of overseas trade in June was the con- tinued improvement in shipments of cotton yarn and thread, which reached 1,822,000 lb., the highest total in a single month since October 1964. In the half-year these exports amounted to 9,950,000 lb., worth £5,785,000 against 9,231,000 lb., valued at £5,734,000 in the corresponding period of 1968.
Man-made fibre yarn and thread exports, of course, now completely dwarf the cotton sector and are one of the big growth areas in this form of trading. In the half-year they totalled 73.634,000 lb., earning practically £30 million, whereas in the
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