English Translation

Hn47/43 go. GHEN Secret! From FAisfassungen Ev Nr1. Nationalbank für Böhmen und Mähren in Prag 11 study department. St 706. Prague, 5 June 1943. Foreign trade of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia. The last statistical data provide an overview of the import in December 1942 and of the export in March 1943. Imports of goods in December 1942. The value of the imported goods in December 1942 was 2l3.2 mill.K. The comparison with the results of the previous month and the same months of the last two years looks as follows /in Mill.K/: December 1942: November 1942: _ December 1941: December 1940: 213.2 242.8 260.3 300.5 This comparison shows the downward trend of the incoming goods. Accordingly, the volume of imported goods is also smaller. Compared to the previous month, the value of imported products decreased by 12% and the quantity by 42%. Compared with December 1994l, the figure fell by 18% and the volume by 38%. This devel opment in December 1992 is linked to a smaller import of some raw materials, particularly iron ore and wood. By groupings and sub-groups of the food industry and the industrial economy, December imports show the following picture compared with the results in the previous month and the same months of the last two years: