Annual report / State of Brunei.

Date:
[1953]
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Credit: Annual report / State of Brunei. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    COMMERCE The total of trade (import and export) amounted to $405,915,275 as compared with $364,197,933 in 1952. i Imports: The total imports amounted to $123,322,162 as compared with ! $76,719,967 the previous year. The increase is chiefly due to larger imports of machineries, iron and steel, cinematographic : films, tractors and vehicles, construction materials and paints, : petroleum products, furnitures, cotton and textile materials and tobacco. Details of imports for the years 1952 and 1953 are given in Appendix “A”. , Exports: The total exports amounted to $282,593,113 as compared with ; $275,633,204 the previous year. The export of crude oil decreased by 190,721 long tons against 1952 figures. The amount of plantation rubber exported in 1953 was less by over one million pounds than in the previous year. This decrease is chiefly due to the constant fall in prices from 92-1/8 cents per pound in January to 53-3/8 cents in October. The firewood trade with Hongkong continues and exports : decreased by over two thousand tons compared with the previous year. Details of the principal exports are given in Appendix “B’\