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THE BRITISH EMPIRE : — EGYPT

Value of the leading imports and

exports during three

years : —

Imports

Exports

Merchandise

1918

1919 £E

1920

1918 21

1919

1920

£E

£E

£E

£E

Animals A animal

food products.

2,293,405

1,704,098

2,080,793

375,906

320,485

328,457

leather goods

501,431

762,116

1,602,519

622,279

1,301,946

748,194

Other animal pro-

135,518

49,118

60,657

40,442

64,311

52,788

Cereals, vegetables

1,361,805

2,263,042

13,285,213

3,418,022

4,832J46

5,110,788

Colonial produce.

2,110,604

1,803,070

4,849.225

1,246,696

062,368

1,159,495

Spirits, oils, Ac. .

4,737,127

4,251,340

5,947,634

225,616

218,654

216,339

Paper, books, Ac.

1,658,666

1,270,824

2,150,094

73,50S

276,133

211,871

Wood A coal.

5,415,661

3,912,109

11,993,427

50,923

71,702

56,574

Stone,earthenware

and glass. .

730,476

553,151

1,933,695

2,388

20,59s

8,219

C olouring materials

580,024

690,782

883,570

0,448

90,579

51,7 H

Chemicals, per-

fumes, Ac. .

1,880,3S1

3,353,972

5,531,302

187,754

692,132

679,177

Textiles A yarns 1.

22,190,210

18,845,7S7

34,441,258

38,298,026

66,077,660

75,612,121

Metals and manuf.

2,858,704

3,742,412

11,842,201

71,100

167,092

169,069

Sundries

1,000,305

1,137,152

2,094,412

23,097

00,439

110,107

951,121

Tobacco

3,100,929 51,155.306

3,070,744

3,184,99S

732,155

1,032,076

Total

47,409,717 1101,880,963

45,370,020

75,888,821

85,467,061

i The cotton tissues imported amounted, in 1918, to £E13, 085,467 ; in 1919, to £E11, 259,384, in 1920, to £E18,9S5,634. The quantity of raw cotton exported was, In 1918, 5,019,689 qantars, rained at £E38,034,467 ; in 1919, 6,708,906 qantars, valued at £E65,441,901, in 1920, 4,001,407 qantars, valued at £E75,096,026.

Of the total imports in 1918, the value of £E33, 535,624, and of the exports the value of £E40, 782,984, passed through the port of Alexandria ; in 1919, of the imports, £E34,882,S72 ; of the exports, £E72,453,903 ; in 1920, of the imports, £ES0,988,567 of the exports, £ES2,456,180.

Goods imported into Egypt are examined by experts, who determine their value according to the market price in their original country, plus the cost of transport, freight, insurance, Ac. In order, however, to facilitate customs operations, the administration, in communication with the merchants interested, establishes, on the same basis as above, periodical tariffs for common articles of importation. In the statistics of the Custom House, the values are taken according to the estimated price which served as the basis for the payment of duty, now fixed at 8 per cent, ad valorem (except coal, liquid fuel, charcoal, firewood, petroleum ; oxen, cows, sheep and goats, whether alive or cold stored, the duty on which was reduced to 4 por cent, ad valorem from November 25, 1905 ; and alcoholic drinks, perfumes, and alcoholic extracts, on which the duty was raised to 10 per cent, on April 30, 1915). As regards exports, there are tariffs for nearly all of them, estimated in the same manner as the tariffs of imports. The quantities recorded in statistics are those declared by the merchants and controlled by the Customs.

The origin of imports and destination of exportsare declared by importers and exporters and controlled, as much as possible, by the searchers and appraisers of the Custom House.

Principal imports into the United Kingdom from Egypt, and the principal exports from the United Kingdom to Egypt, according to British Board of Trade returns : —

British Imports from Egypt

Exports of British Produce to Egypt

Tear

Raw Ootton

Cotton Seed

Eggs

Oil Seed Cake

Cotton Goods

£

7,728,861 13,824,498 9,014,163

Coal, Ac.

£

2,464,887 1,071,982 2.188,828

8,579,838

Iron 4- Steel and Manu- factures

Woollen Goods

. * 1013) 17,642,358 1918 ,18,927,829

1917 i26,187,8S4

1918 44,469,567

1919 50,84(1,618

4 2,005.471 3,102,323 3,269,180 6,394,110 5,008,880

X 866,672 974,658 1,015,840 715.170 980,674

£

817,003

774,234

1,371.412

9.7 !•; 9,09,788

£ 718,8

614,671 773,824

797,899 1,069,555

252,432

631,727

1,017,868

1,089,180

898,778

1 Including Anglo-Egyptian Sudan in 1913.