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 SHIPPING AND NAVIGATION

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The following statement shows the values of other important imports nto the United Kingdom from the United States for 2 years : —

1

£

Egg»

617. 230

taoMM

Machinery

Bacon

. 74

Copper

Hams

4,905,131

Paraffin wax.

B«ef

.» 13, 740

Petroleum

Lard

. 19

■

Tobacco.

Leather.


 * ,1,930

19,195,181

Fiah

191?

».159,562 12,993,380

796,214 S,759.2jS 3,663,043

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

Tear

Iron Cotton Goods

Linen Goods

Woollen Goodi

1914 1915 1916 lal7 191S 1919

£ £ 1,781,928 4,64. 1,295, 11C 3,86

6,419,446

^.034

.321 5,112,602

6,581,210

£ 4.474,359 3,519,780 4.44

4,676,505 3.507.74S 3,012,796

£

3,903,312 3,348,506 -,091 1,972,838 1.304.746 1,77-

The total trade between the United States and the United Kingdom for 5 years in thousands of pounds sterling, was as follows : —

1916

1917

1918

1M0

Imports from I'. 8. to L'. K

Exports to 0. S from t\ K

£ 291,835 32,637

£

376.329

33.239

£

515.351

23.340

£.

541,553 564.338

33,913 77.131

Shipping and Navigation.

The foreign commerce of the United States is at present largely carried on n Ameiican bottoms. The shipping belonging to the United States was classed as follows for 1920 : — Sailing vessels (exclusive of canal boats and barges), 4,030 of 1,272,159 tons; steam vessels, 3,103 of 13,466,400 tons; gas vessels, 10,711 of 357,049 tons; total (including canal boats and barges), 28,183 vessels of 16,324,024 tons.

Of vessels registered as engaged in the foreign trade and the whale fisheries, the aggregate was, in 1920, 9.92S.595 tons, showingan increase of 3,258,869 tons on 1919 ; while of vessels engaged in the coasting trade and the cod and mackerel fisheries the total in 1920 was 6,395,429 tons, or 157,855 tons more than in the preceding year.