Big Deterioration in British Trade with Australia

The Week Vol. 2, No. 11, 1 October 1964 · p. 12 of the scan · 67 words

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Explaining why the British Government and industry had chosen Australia for the biggest ever, £25m. overseas fair, the Financial Times quoted these figures: "...From a post-war peak of almost 50% in the early fifties, Britain's share of Australia's import trade has already fallen below 36%...In the past year Britain was the only major supplier to gain no benefit from the expansion of £107m. in Australia's overseas purchases."