English Translation

7 60 'III. Imports of goods in August 1943: Total imports in August of 1943 had a value of 239.8 million K. The comparison with the import results in the previous month and the same month of the last three years shows the following picture /in Mill.K/: VIII.1943: VII.1942: VIII.1941: VIII.1041: VIII.1140: 239.8 190.9 198.90 235.2 554, - Compared to the previous months, the increase in value is 25.6%, whereas in quantity it is 87.8%, a phenomenon which is particularly related to increased imports of raw materials of iron ores. Based on the groups and sub-groups of the food economy and the commercial economy, the imports from August 1943, compared with the previous month and with the results of the same month of the last two years, follow the picture: /In Mill.K/ VIII1943: VII.1943 : VIII.1942: VIII.-1941: 1/ Food industry: 75.2 64.5 51.3 79.9 of which: Live animals 90 9'0 16,6 ${g Food products of foreign origin. ?,4 $10,r}$ 7.1 6'9 vegetable II 54, 6 42, 3 23- 51'5 consumer goods ...... .. 123 117 4.6 161 2/ Industrial economy 164.6 126,4 147,6 155,3 of which: raw materials .. 47.1 35, 30.9 Semi-finished products 46, - 33.6 29 568 manufactured goods. 71.5 57,6 548 67,6 The share of imported food products amounted to 31.3% of total August imports /in the previous month 33.7%/. With regard to the composition of imports in the Industrial Economy Group, the following changes have occurred, expressed in hundreds of percentages: