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 lS0 lt E It may be intmresting to note the chanse8 in Japan's export and impor racle wih India during he las hree years. TOTAL VALUE OF [ERCHANDISE EXPORTED TO AND IllPORTED FRO! INDIA Year 1918 1914 1915 Exports to India 20,878,414 26,048,887 42,202,460 The above figures a remarkable exen he Indian msrke. twelve months she Imports from India 178,178,86t 160,824,460 147,585,8t0 Excess of Exports (+) or (--) Ysl 148,800,4t7 184,276,128 105,882,850 are instructive and Japan has increased Vihin s period of has increased her show to what her hold over no more than expors o hls country by more than 16 million yen, centage increase of about 61'5, while reduced her imports from us. representing a per- she has materially The following details of Japan's trade with India compiled from tables 52 and 53 (pp. 100-7 ) of the Annual under review will be found interesting: TABLE SHOWING VALUE OF CHIEF CI)MMODITIES EXPORTED TO INDIA Commodity Camphor ... Silk Tissues, (habta) Do., (kaiki) handkerchiefs ... Silk Towels, cotton Coal Porcelain and Earthen- ware ... Matches ... 1918 880,60i 6,812,529 65,489 182,486 508,090 1,095,095 814,686 1,978,785 1914 824,719 8,274,295 15,604 64,879 859,767 ' 511,858 28t,865 2,895,972 ' 1915 1,254,697 5,405,876 45,404 78,268 850,986 277,159 514,929 5,4.94,188 The figures in the above table serve a double purpose. They show the immediate disturbing effects of the war, and also, what is more significant, the wonderful manner in which Japan not only rseovered from the great shock, but unmd