The Review of Economics and Statistics Vol. 39 No. 1 1957
British Exports to the United States, 1948-1955
Abstract
THERE may seem little excuse for writing still more about the problems of exporting British goods to the United States.' But while many aspects of the problem have received thorough individual treatment, for instance the invisible tariff or the technicalities of marketing, less attention has been paid to the more general question of the relative importance of all the alleged difficulties as factors currently limiting sales of British goods in the American market. The problem is fraught with interesting but unanswerable questions, and impressions have often to take the place of statistics. As a starting point a volume and average value series was calculated for United Kingdom exports to the United States for the years I94855 2 The result is shown in Table i together for comparative purposes with volume indexes of total United Kingdom exports and total United States imports and with the United States consumer price index. The detailed average value index by commodity groups is shown in Table
- DOI
- 10.2307/1926222
- Volume
- 39
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 65
- Sources
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