English Translation

59/43g namnye 27 National Bank for Bohemia and Moravia in Prague: study department. St./868. Prague, July 7, 1943. Foreign trade of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Mähren. The last statistical data provide an overview of imports in January and on exports in April 1943. Imports of goods_ in January 1943: Total imports of goods in January of 1943 had a value of 105.l Mill.K. This result represents the lowest level in the foreign trade of the Protectorate at all. The comparison with the value of imports in the previous month and in the same months of the last three years is as follows /in Mill.K/: I.1943: XII.1942:1.1941: I.19440: 105.1 213.2 181.6 307.2 338.5 The downward trend in imports of goods is more than apparent. Accordingly, the quantity of imported goods is also smaller. Depreciating-is-also the quantity-of-imported-vares-smaller. Compared to the previous month, the value of imported products decreased by 50.7% and the quantity by 32.4 %. Compared with January l942, the difference is a little smaller, but the decrease compared with January I94l amounts to 65.8% in value and 50.4% in quantity.