English Translation

En44/44g National Bank of Bohemia and Moravia in Prague, GEHEIM Study Department. Národní banka pro Čechy a Moravu v Praze, studijní odděleni.. 644/28 St./654. Prague, June 6, 1944. 6 copies. - Srste copy. The foreign trade of the Protectorate of Bohemia, Moravia in April 1944. I. Imports of goods in April, 1944: Total imports of goods, April 1,944 had a value of 199 million K. Compared with the previous month, April imports increased by 1% in value, but remained unchanged in volume terms. The comparison with the import results in the previous months and the same month of the last four years shows the following picture /in Mill.K/: IV.1944: 199. 179.9 215.4 270.3 288.5 412.5 Depending on the groups and subgroups of the food economy and the industrial economy, April imports in comparison with the previous month and with the results of the same month of the last two years provide the following picture: /In Mill.K/ IV.1944: III.1943: IV.-1942: 1/ Food industry: 78.3 67.1 94.8 145.9 Foodstuffs: animal origin 14.- 11.9 5.4 8*9 vegetable 1I 24.2 40.- 40. - 127.4 consumables 4001 15.2 49.4 6.- 2/Industrial economy: 119.8 111.8 120.6 124.3 of which: raw materials 40.7 28.1 44.4 35.7 Semi-finished products 23.6 30-26.7 31.7 Manufactured goods 55.5 53.7 49.5 56.9 3/ Refunded goods: 6:8 1.- The share of imported food in the total import of April was: 39.3% /in the previous month 37.3%/. This group includes imports of raw tobacco, which in April showed a greater increase in imports.