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Table 17.
Import Balances of Cattle.
(Thousands of head.)
1925
1926
1927
1928
Germany
Italy
Belgium
Austria
Switzerland
Czechoslovakia . . . .
Principal European
importing countries,
other than United
Kingdom
Great Britain ....
Total, all principal im¬
porting countries b .
168
4i
9
136
36
146
536
893
1,883
206
58
5
132
20
67
488
800
1,965
33i
84
35
125
8
19
602
721
2,178
319
189
17
142
3
6
676
855
2,447
3i7
265
26
98
7
93
806
884
2,689
173
263
58
88
10
96
688
972
2,355
54
98
60
54
22
20
308
861
1,625
79
77
44
(Export)
40
117
27
19
212
763
1,421
203
761
i,37°
a Negligible.
b Includes others not shown separately.
[Cattle and Beef Survey, page 328.)
Continental European trade in butter has also undergone marked reduction in recent
years, although it was steadily increasing until 1930. Germany, whose imports accounted
for over 90% of the total net imports of Continental Europe in 1929, took in 1933 less
than half the quantity imported in that year. But other Continental countries increased
their imports between 1929 and 1931 and, in spite of restrictions imposed since then,
France and Belgium were still importing larger quantities in 1933 than in 1930. The
great increase of British imports, amounting to 57 % between 1928 and 1933, has prevented
any serious reduction in the European total from the high point reached in 1931. British
imports in 1932 and 1933 reached a figure in excess of the total of world imports in the
years prior to 1928.
Table 18.
Import Balances of Butter.
(Thousands of quintals.)
1925
1926
1927
1928
1930
Germany . . . .
Belgium
France
Switzerland . . .
Italy
Czechoslovakia . .
Europe, excl. U.K.
United Kingdom .
Europe, inch U.K.
World
965
38
a
86
a
4
1,127
2,789
3,9i6
4T39
977
14
a
80
a
4
1,128
2,833
3,96i
4,219
1,082
84
a
6
1,219
2,828
4,047
4,374
1,264
a
a
81
9
a
1,380
3,016
4,396
4,749
T354
30
a
75
1
1
1,478
3,183
4,661
5,087
1,329
91
4
85
6
b
1,538
3,372
4,910
5,353
1,001
176
135
106
22
16
U476
3,9i2
5,388
5,654
693
205
83
37
14
12
1.057
4,i3i
5,188
5,445
59i
121
61
5
7
6
c
4,44°
a Export balance. b Negligible. c Not available.
(From publications of the International Institute of Agriculture.)