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ANNUAL IMPORTS OF DAIRY PRODUCTS INTO UNITED KINGDOM DURING THE YEARS 1938 AND 1941 TO 1946 INCLUSIVE The following tables are of interest, particularly the butter and cheese tables, which show the importance of New Zealand as a supplier to Britain during the vital war years, and compare the normal pre-war imports with those of the immediate post-war period.

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Consigned from 1938. 1941. 1942. 1943. 1944. 1945. 1946. Ann New Zealand Australia Irish Free State Union of South Africa .. Canada South-west African toryKenya Other Empire Total Empire .. Denmark Netherlands Latvia Sweden Lithuania Estonia Finland Poland Argentine Austria Hungary France Belgium Norway - Czechoslovakia Japan Uruguay Other foreign Total foreign .. Grand total Less re-exports Net imports * The revise UAL Impoe 129,613 89,891 16,330 1,266 1,501 1,294 707 37 TS OB 1 Bun (Ir 127,983 69,679 6,122 2,500 20 1 j> 230 J CTEE. INTO tons) 93,377 40,716 225 12 6 United E 100,385 44,013 142 5 3,175 JNGDOM 104,383 37,799 28 118,274 45,059 1 1 1 101,190 65,616 3 3 240,639 206,534 134,336 147,720 142,210 163,336 166,812 118,240 35,595 16,995 15,038 11,404 9,158 10,486 9,954 4,494 749 1,023 17 249 620 555 371 308 1 11,569 37 18 *225 1 3 j 498 386 10*522 217 26,114 614 *56 43,537 1 j 102 *37 235,257 11,606 243 3,884 10,739 26,784 44,676 475,896 3,952 218,140 39 134,579 48 151,604 78 152,949* 109 190,120 179 211,488 786 471,944 218,101 134,531 151,526 152,840 189,941 210,702 id figures issi led in 1946 show total im ports for 194 4 as 153,200 tons.