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

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Ln 90/43 g 6t Nationalbank für Böhmen und Mähren NIHD in Prag Study Department. From 7 copies evidence number l St./1560. Prague, December 7, 1943. Foreign trade of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia. The latest statistics provide an overview of imports and exports in October 1943. I. The import of goods in October 1943: The total import of commodities in October 1943 had a value of 215,6 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/: X.1943: IX.1942: X.1941: X.1040: 215,6 224,1 172,4 267,7 261.3 Compared to the previous months, a slight decrease of 11.5 millionK, i.e. 51% less, compared with a decrease of 20,5 % in October imports. This phenomenon is almost exclusively related to reduced imports of raw materials. By group and sub-group of the food economy and the industrial economy, October imports are the following in comparison with the previous month and with the results of the same month of the last two years: