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British Imports of Manufactured Goods

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 March 2020

G. F. Ray
G. F. Ray*
Affiliation:
National Institute
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Imports of manufactured goods, both of finished manufactures and of textiles, have been rising rapidly in Britain—over 50 per cent in the last five years ; they are now much bigger, in relation to national output, than they were before the war.

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National Institute Economic Review , Volume 8 , March 1960 , pp. 12 - 29
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Copyright © 1960 National Institute of Economic and Social Research

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note (1) page 17 These indices are from a study on ‘Trends in World Trade in Manufactured Goods’, which is being prepared for publication by A. Maizels of the National Institute.

note (1) page 19 For most of the items, exports are of course very much larger than imports; if imports were expressed as a proportion of total home production, not total home supplies, the figures in tables 14, 15, 18, 20 and 22 would be much smaller.

note (1) page 25 Estimates made by the Cotton Board for 1957 suggested that about 20 per cent of the cloth from India and Pakistan, and about 15 per cent of the cloth from Hong Kong, was imported for re-export.