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 SHLPPING AND NAVIGATION

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Imports of raw cotton into Great Britain and Ireland : —

Quantity, cwts. Value. £.

1907

15,621,197 46,911,291

1908

1909

14,178,555 I 14,647,186 39,286,262 41,174,869

1910

13,126,150

48,793,678

1911

10,823,878 1 48,847,303

1 Centals of 100 lbs.

The following statement shows the values of othei ini])ortant imports into the United Kingdom from the United States in the last 2 years : —

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1910

1911 —

1910

1911

Cattle.

Bacon

Hams

Fresh beef Lard Leather.

£.

2,578,285 4,453,293 2,329,52'i 1,070,299 4,201,013 4,057,282

£ 3,056,499 Machinery 5,067,533 Copper. 2,712,287 Paraffin wax.

397,601 Petroleum 4,014,648 Tobacco. 3,828,990 Fish

£

2.287,702 2,568,235 871,763 3,745,903 2,815,028 1,021 358

£ 2,894,271 3,027,039

617,816 3,370,982 3,278,383

702,786

Leading articles exported from the United Kingdom to the United States : —

Year

Iron

Cotton Goods

Linen Goods

Woollen Goods

1907 1908 1909 1910 1911

£

4,149,918 1,957,044 2,572,904 3,177,708 1,787,069

£ 4,421,800 2,831,819 4,096,702 3,587,623 3,799,707

£ 3,876,824 2,806,296 4.203,037 4, 336, 786 3,862,808

£

1,556,669 1,024,338 1,601,293 1,776.049 1,285,892

The total trade of the United States (imports and exports of merchandise) is divided as follows in 1911-12 among the various coasts and frontiers in the States in percentage of the total: — Atlantic Coast, 65*60; Gulf Coast, 14-42; Mexican Border Ports, 1-29; Pacific Coast, 6*20; North Boundary, 11-93; Interior Ports, -56.

The percentage of the leading ports was as follows : — New York, 46*50 ; Boston, 5*16; Philadelphia.. 3-99; Baltimore, 3*08; Galveston, 5*77; New Orlean.s, 5-81; San Francisco, 2-81.

Shipping and Navigation.

The foreign commerce of the United States is at present largely carried on in foreign bottoms. The shipping belonging to the United States was classed as follows for 1912 : — Sailing vessels (exclusive of canal boats and barges), 7,582 of 1,538,847 tons; steam vessels, 14,265 of 5,179,858 tons; total (including canal boats and barges), 26,528 vessels of 7,714,183 tons.

Of vessels registered as engaged in the foreign trade and the whale fisheries, the aggregate was in 1912, 932,101 tons, .showing an increase of 59,430 tons on 1911 ; while of vessels engaged in the coasting trade and the cod and mackerel fisheries the totaL in 1912 was 6,782,682 tons, or 16,563 tons more than in the preceding year.

The shipping was distributed thus (June 30, 1912) : —