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16 {| class="table horizborder p15" Foreign Countries.||From Self- Governing Colonies.||From Other British Possessions.''|||Total.
 * +SUMMARY OF IMPORTS INTO THE UNITED KINGDOM, 1906.
 * ||''From
 * ||''From
 * Class I.—Food, Drinks and Tobacco||179.650,109||37,435,483||121,072,564||238,158,156
 * Percentage||75.4||15.7||&ensp;8.9||
 * Class II.—Raw Materials and articles mainly unmanufactured||147,906,599||38,153,172||25,418,556||211,478,327
 * Percentage||70&emsp;||18&emsp;||12&emsp;||
 * Class III.—Articles wholly or mainly manufactured||136,303,283||5,655,517||13,850,591||155,809,391
 * Percentage||87.5||&ensp;3.8||&ensp;8.7||
 * Class IV.—Miscellaneous and unclassified||1,863,269|| [ [sic] 179,782||399,575||2,442,626
 * Percentage||76.3||&ensp;7.3||16.4||
 * Total&emsp;&emsp;&emsp;&emsp;£&ensp;||465,723,260||81,423,954||60,741,286||607,888,500
 * ||76.6||13.3||10.1||
 * }
 * Class III.—Articles wholly or mainly manufactured||136,303,283||5,655,517||13,850,591||155,809,391
 * Percentage||87.5||&ensp;3.8||&ensp;8.7||
 * Class IV.—Miscellaneous and unclassified||1,863,269|| [ [sic] 179,782||399,575||2,442,626
 * Percentage||76.3||&ensp;7.3||16.4||
 * Total&emsp;&emsp;&emsp;&emsp;£&ensp;||465,723,260||81,423,954||60,741,286||607,888,500
 * ||76.6||13.3||10.1||
 * }
 * Total&emsp;&emsp;&emsp;&emsp;£&ensp;||465,723,260||81,423,954||60,741,286||607,888,500
 * ||76.6||13.3||10.1||
 * }
 * ||76.6||13.3||10.1||
 * }

We give also, for purposes of reference, the following analysis of our total imports for the five years ended 1905:—

In the fifteen years from 1891 to 1905 (the last years shown in the Statistical Abstract), the total British imports and exports increased £128,000,000 as a whole. Of this total increase only £12,000,000 went in exports of British produce to Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa—or one-tenth of the whole. To Australia, taken