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THE BRITISH EMPIRE: — UNITED KINGDOM

in this country is required and recorded in the returns. This is ascertained from the declaration made by the importers, and is checked by the expert knowledge available in the Customs Department, with the help of current price-lists and market reports. For exports, the value at the port of shipment (including the charges of delivering the goods on board) is taken. Imports are entered as from the country whence the goods were consigned to the United Kingdom, which may, or may not, be the country whence the goods were last shipped. Exports are credited to the country of ultimate destination as declared by the exporters.

Imports by air in 1920 amounted to 677,O00J., and exports to 339,0002. The trade was mainly in clothes and furs.

The estimated weight of imports is: — 54*5 million tons in 1913, and 89 million in 1919 ; of British exports, 91 '4 million tons in 1913, and 46*1 million in 1919 ; of re-exports, 1,750,000 tons in 1913. and 1,500,000 in 1919.

The total estimated value of the imports and exports of Ireland (including the trade with Great Britain) is given by the Irish Department of Agricul- ture and Technical Instruction, as follows : —

1914

1916

1917 1 1918

1919

Imports- Farm produce, food and drink stuff's

Manufactured goods

Thous. £ 26,971 11,162

35,862

Thous. J 39,050 17,794

47,073

Thous. £ Thous. & 41,419 1 34,429 21,392 ! 21,689 50,370 69,898

Thous. £

55,245 24,433

79,03b

Total Imports

73,995

104,517

119,181

71,801 5,802 50,702

126,010

78,254

5,369

69,308

158,716

Exports- Farm produce, food and drink stuffs

Manufactured goods

41,607 4,274 31,430

77,311

62,577

4,588

40,006

98,709 0.777 75,540

Total Exports.

107,171

133,8*5 152,931

176,032

Imports into Ireland from Great Britain, 1919, 132,374,000/. ; exports to Great Britain, 174,005,000/.

Trade of the United Kingdom according to countries (figures for 1920 aie provisional) : —

Exports of Merchandise consigned Value of Merchandise! to countries iu first column

Consigned from |

Countries in first Countries column British Produce.

foreign Court triee : Europe and Coloniee — Kussia Sweden Norway Denmark (including Faroe Islands)

Iceland and Greenland

Danish W. India Island Germany Netherlands

Java

Dutch Possessions in the Indian Seas.

Dutch West India Islands

Dutch Guiana

Thous. £

40,271 14.213 7,437

23,831

23 80,411 28,578

2,086

L828

■ 42

378

1920

1913

Thous. £ Thous. £

34,183 18,103 .',0,372 8,220

23,851 6,147

81,157 514

31,120 89,292

2B.700

8,061 I S3

49

5,792 210

59

4(1,677

15,42'.i

5.701

1,645 50 89

1920

Thous. £

11,898

39,832 33,387

30,635

1,023

30

21,723

47,'.' l r. 18,413

4,901 134 136

Foreign and Colonial Produce.

1920

Thous. £ Thous. £

9,591

1,014

518

551 30

8 19,888

5,l»93 46

11

2

9

4,842 6,006 1,942

29,876 14,401

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