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 156 THE HRlTrSS EMPIRE:— IN'DIA AND ftEt^ENllENcltiS

1893

1894

£

27,648,857

29,339,781

1895

£

26,431,315

24,753,008

1896

1897

Imports into U.K. from India Exports of British produce to India.

£

26,233,949

28,814,880

£

25,265,467

30,097,768

j6 24,813,09&

27,382,091

The following table shows the staple articles of import from India into the United Kingdom in five years : —

Year

Cotton

Wheat

Jute

Seeds

Tea

Rice

I Indigo 1

1

1893 1894 1895 1896 1897

£ 1,111,080 1,297,542

759,080 1,039,646

635,341

£

1,951,816

1,429,433

2,342,132

625,092

241,447

£ 3,615,327 4,597,898 4,330,519 4,154,083 3,922,806

£ 2,678,640 2,996,803 1,252,099 1,364,017 1,261,541

£ 4,735,767 4,874,471 5,096,450 5,240,818 5,450,329

£ 1,529,938 1,327,838 1,853,461 1,198,561 1,056,352

£

1,265,549 1,042,739 1,281,735 1,434,358 1,372,603

Other articles are: leather, of the value of 2,295,433Z. ; untanned hide.?, 623,231^.; coffee, 522,034Z.; wool, 1,038,534Z. in 1897.

The chief articles of British produce imported into India are as follows : — •

Year

Cotton Manu- factures

Cotton Yarn

Iron

Copper

Machinery

"Woollens

1

1893 1894 1895 1896 1897

£ 16,091,501 18,242,305 12,874,145 16,372,918 13,738,522

£ 1,773,047 1,643,254 1,627,360 2,061,031 1,957,628

£ 2,065,553 1,773,782 2,011,867 2,985,738 3,188,493

£ 788,317 638,950 699,504 486,152 550,945

£ 2,056,027 1,744,087 1,978,481 2,365,006 2,174,032

£ 614,289 419,087 417,215 556,009 401,634

The imports from India into Great Britain, and exports of domestic produce and manufactures from Great Britain to India were as follows in

1897 :—

Bombay and Sind

Madras

Bengal

Burma

Imports from

3,473,438

3,462,374

15,999,536

1,877,751

24,813,099

Exports tx)

£

9,404.197

2,822,190

12,813,303

2,342,401

27,382,091

The following figures show the actual extent of the foreign trade of the six largest ports' in merchandise only, imimrts and exports (including re- exports), during the last five years, in tens of rupees : —