THE GERMAN STATE MINISTRY FOR CHECH AND MORAV, PRAGUE (1906) 1939 - 1945 (1965), inv. 551, sig. 110-4/399

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Fm Mr 72/43 g GEHEIM 105 National Bank for Bohemia and Moravia in Prague, study department. St./1163. Prague, September 7, 1943. From FExamples Ev No. 2 The foreign trade of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Mähren. The latest statistics provide an overview of imports in March and on exports in June 1943. As a result of the new processing system of statistical data on the part of the Central Statistical Office, the data on import results are already available in July.The gap in the statistical data On imports made in the months of April to June 1943, we will be supplemented by the order of time and will be processed by us. Total imports in March 1943 amounted to 218,3 mil1.K. This amount represents the highest result in the three months of the current year. 03313 The comparison with imports in the previous month and the same month of the last three years shows the following figure in value /in Mill.K/: III.1943: II.1942: III.1941: III.1040: 218,3 156,6 173,- 8892 412.8 Compared to the previous months, the increase in value is $39, while in volume terms it is 150%, a phenomenon related to increased imports of raw materials, particularly iron and manganese ores. In March, according to the groupings and sub-groups of the food and industrial economy, the introduction presents the following picture compared with the results of the previous month and the same month of the last two years: