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Show if SOUTH AFRICA I I BUYING CARS Trade Outlook Is Excellent And Imports Showing Increase Motor trade in south Africa ll at present In a very satisfactory position, ays Trade Commissioner Stevenson, In a report to the department of commerce. com-merce. It has been ery difficult nt tlnoGS to reconcile the difference bo-tween bo-tween general conditions and the etoady demand for new cars. The I trade Is brisk In the main centers lu ' south Africa and oven tho agrlcul- j turai Motion are allowing signs of J improvement. The number of cars in j i.ond has been so reduced that it no, longer constitutes a menace to tlio j trade, although a serious matter for , the lew firms in whose hands the re-I maining cars are concentrated. T,,e general tendency toward lower prlceaj that has prevailed In recent mouths nns contributed BUbat&ntlally to the ; increase in sales, while another Ini- ; jiortant factor has been the lowrr cost of motoring. Passenger ear Imports into the I , Union of South Africa for the first half ot 19-.' were ry good consider-! ing fcha general economic conditions that have prevailed since the first otj the year. Whereas in the whole year 1021 only S02 American passenger j ars were Imported, S54 were. Imported Import-ed in the firit six months of l&i-,md l&i-,md -21 of thorn in May and June. Im , ports of Canadian cars In the first , t months of this year wore. &69, com-pared com-pared with 101 u in all of hist year. Combining the two v.- find that 11.01 1 per cent of the entire Imports worn of American origin as compared with b7 per cent In 1921, The United Kingdom was the second largest ex- i porter to this market, the six months tota being 59 machines of a value Of 21,279 pounds. Tho total number ! of passenger cars from all sources lmproted In January-Juno, 1222, was 1?8, valued at $373,047. France Is the only other country that has any particular share in the present trade of South A Thirty1 cars valued at S13H pounds were im-I ported up to July 1 as compared with 34 worth 11,991 pounds last year A' before, practically all are "Renaulta." Germany sent in only 14 care. |