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Tbe share of each division of the United Kingdom in the trade of the country is shown in the following table in thousands of pounds (sterling) :-

England and/ ^"^P°^*« . Wales 1 Exports A

Total

C Imports.

Scotland -! ,:, . f \ Exports .-!

Total

Ireland

Imports Exports

Total

1893

£1,000 363,470 194,6431

57,958'^

616,071

32,279

22,247^

901^

55,427

^,939 3271 202

9,386

1894

£1,000 366,441 194,630

56,8962

617,967

33,042

19,9411

877^

53,860

^,862 3251

72

9,194

1895

1896

£1,000

375,201 204,3011 58,9302

£1,000 398,157 217,3781

55,4662

638,432

671,001

32,731 21,524' 7652

34,285 22,5321 6862

55,020

8,758 3021 82

57,503

9,366 2351 812

9,068

9,682

1897

£1,000 406,157 211,316'

58,903-

676,376

34,420 22,6181 7732

57,811

10,452

286" 2782

11,016

1 British.

2 Foreign and Colonial.

Thus of the total trade, 90-8 per cent, falls to England and Wales; 7*8 per cent, to Scotland ; 1 "4 per cent, to Ireland.

The following table gives the total value of the imports of foreign and colonial merchandise, and of the exports of British produce and manufactures fiom and to foreign countries and British possessions in the years 1896 and 1897 :—

Countries

Imports of Merchandise

Exports of Produce and Manufactures of U.K.

1896

1897

1896

1897

British Possessions : India

Australasia British North

America South and East Africa

£ 25,285,467 29,402,549

16,444,259 5,418,014

£ 24,813,099 29,362,129

19,538,998 5,131,196

£ 30,097,768 21,915,655

5,755,726 14,066,459

£ 27,382,091 21,310,884

5,476,191 13,665,561

Orange Free State) do not appear in the returns, and much of the imported produce of Central Europe is entered as from Holland an<l Belgium. But imports from the Ea.st which have been transhipped at Colombo or at Marseilles, and those from Chile and Peru, which have l)een transhippe<l at Colon, are, as far as possible, credited to the true country of origin. Imports from Canada vid U.S. ports, and from the United States vid Canadian ports are, as far as possible, assigned to their proper origin ; but the distinction cannot always be ^made, and, especially in winter, an uncertain amount of imported tCanadian produce is credited to the United States.

Exports are, as a rule, credited to the country of ultimate destination as declared by the exi)orters, but those to countries without a seaboard are credited to the country of the port of ilischargc.