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Table A.—Classes of Imports and Exports, 1905.
| Import. | Export. | |
| Refuse | £6,866,250 | £1,170,200 |
| Cotton and cottons | 23,488,750 | 22,949,600 |
| Lead and by-products | 996,300 | 979,400 |
| Brush and sieve makers’ goods | 102,400 | 515,450 |
| Drugs, chemists’ and oilmen’s colours | 15,896,900 | 23,196,250 |
| Iron and iron goods | 3,156,500 | 33,126,400 |
| Ores, precious metals, asbestos, &c. | 28,834,050 | 9,899,450 |
| Flax and other vegetable spinning | ||
| materials except cotton | 6,794,100 | 1,235,700 |
| Grain and agricultural produce | 59,136,200 | 7,496,500 |
| Glass | 538,050 | 2,743,900 |
| Hair, feathers, bristles | 3,218,600 | 1,848,150 |
| Skins | 18,965,500 | 9,548,450 |
| Wood and wooden wares | 16,940,850 | 6,056,150 |
| Hops | 913,150 | 2,135,600 |
| Instruments, machines, &c. | 4,351,500 | 17,898,250 |
| Calendars | 34,300 | 74,700 |
| Caoutchouc, &c. | 7,379,600 | 4,616,400 |
| Clothes, body linen, millinery | 739,900 | 7,321,050 |
| Copper and copper goods | 8,273,400 | 10,307,050 |
| Hardware, &c. | 2,042,400 | 12,610,550 |
| Leather and leather goods | 3,567,950 | 9,665,300 |
| Linens | 1,750,100 | 1,904,950 |
| Candles | 11,150 | 42,350 |
| Literary and works of art | 3,066,050 | 9,025,500 |
| Groceries and confectionery | 41,446,400 | 17,585,000 |
| Fats and oils | 12,510,600 | 2,631,600 |
| Paper goods | 1,086,800 | 7,158,800 |
| Furs | 265,700 | 720,200 |
| Petroleum | 5,036,600 | 132,300 |
| Silks and silk goods | 9,523,300 | 8,889,000 |
| Soap and perfumes | 151,600 | 768,200 |
| Playing cards | 400 | 18,950 |
| Stone goods | 2,822,000 | 2,110,550 |
| Coal, lignite, coke and peat | 10,136,800 | 15,096,450 |
| Straw and hemp goods | 561,650 | 262,100 |
| Tar, pitch, resin | 2,504,400 | 834,100 |
| Animals, and animal products | 9,926,200 | 590,700 |
| Earthenware goods | 391,650 | 5,076,350 |
| Cattle | 11,366,200 | 725,100 |
| Oilcloth | 43,150 | 177,300 |
| Wools and woollen textiles | 25,290,200 | 21,562,900 |
| Zinc and zinc goods | 682,250 | 2,413,600 |
| Tin and japanned goods | 1,770,550 | 744,100 |
| Goods insufficiently declared | . . | 806,300 |
| Total. | £352,317,250 | £284,626,900 |
Table B.—Classes of Imports and Exports, 1907 and 1908.
| Groups of Articles. | Imports. | Exports. | ||
| Value in £1000. | Value in £1000. | |||
| 1907. | 1908.[1] | 1907. | 1908.[1] | |
| Agricultural and forest produce[2] | 215,532 | 205,512 | 45,796 | 50,324 |
| Agricultural produce[3] | 93,253 | 102,954 | 10,369 | 15,168 |
| Colonial produce and substitutes for the same | 12,151 | 12,328 | 84 | 108 |
| Southern fruit and fruit peel | 3,214 | 3,262 | 20 | 23 |
| Forest produce | 28,166 | 26,299 | 4,066 | 3,967 |
| Resins | 8,216 | 8,209 | 2,500 | 2,325 |
| Animals and animal products[2] | 63,283 | 61,794 | 9,607 | 9,676 |
| Hides and skins | 16,920 | 17,699 | 5,383 | 5,453 |
| Meat, oil, sugar, beverages | 21,523 | 20,404 | 20,284 | 20,048 |
| Mineral and fossil raw materials, mineral oils | 47,575 | 45,540 | 26,166 | 26,208 |
| Earths and stones | 6,541 | 7,542 | 3,250 | 3,006 |
| Ores, slag, cinders | 16,465 | 15,451 | 1,407 | 1,206 |
| Mineral fuel | 16,895 | 14,910 | 19,445 | 20,020 |
| Mineral oils and other fossil raw materials | 7,168 | 7,209 | 558 | 491 |
| Coal-tar, coal-tar oils | 506 | 428 | 1,506 | 1,485 |
| Chemical and pharmaceutical products, colours | 14,784 | 14,850 | 28,116 | 26,845 |
| Chemical primary materials, acids, salts | 9,226 | 9,550 | 9,661 | 9,832 |
| Colours and dyeing materials | 951 | 879 | 11,630 | 10,518 |
| Varnish, lacquer | 189 | 158 | 206 | 221 |
| Ether, alcohol not included elsewhere, | ||||
| essential oils, perfumery and cosmetics | 1,979 | 1,918 | 1,118 | 1,004 |
| Artificial manures | 992 | 1,001 | 1,303 | 1,236 |
| Explosives of all kinds | 86 | 74 | 1,612 | 1,269 |
| Other chemical and pharmaceutical products | 1,361 | 1,270 | 2,586 | 2,765 |
| Animal and vegetable textile | ||||
| materials and wares thereof | 98,540 | 92,105 | 78,086 | 70,343 |
| Silk and silk goods | 13,533 | 13,704 | 13,324 | 11,364 |
| Wool | 33,260 | 31,195 | 27,114 | 24,918 |
| Unworked wool | 19,975 | 19,309 | 2,647 | 2,561 |
| Worked wool | 4,625 | 4,961 | 3,799 | 3,393 |
| Wares of spun wool | 8,660 | 6,925 | 20,668 | 18,964 |
| Cotton | 38,543 | 34,456 | 29,004 | 26,201 |
| Unworked cotton | 27,705 | 26,167 | 3,264 | 2,987 |
| Worked cotton | 980 | 950 | 912 | 891 |
| Cotton wares | 9,858 | 7,338 | 24,828 | 22,324 |
| Other vegetable textile materials | 10,783 | 10,411 | 3,777 | 3,471 |
| Unworked | 7,923 | 7,819 | 1,125 | 1,211 |
| Worked | 166 | 168 | 122 | 137 |
| Wares thereof | 2,685 | 2,423 | 2,531 | 2,124 |
| Leather and leather wares, furriers’ wares | 6,695 | 6,657 | 16,778 | 17,835 |
| Leather | 2,658 | 2,804 | 7,503 | 8,328 |
| Leather wares | 1,332 | 1,176 | 4,016 | 3,867 |
| Furriers’ wares | 2,698 | 2,672 | 5,237 | 5,616 |
| Caoutchouc wares | 694 | 754 | 2,328 | 2,325 |
| Wares of soft caoutchouc | 670 | 735 | 1,694 | 1,723 |
| Hardened caoutchouc and wares thereof | 24 | 19 | 634 | 602 |
| Wares of animal or vegetable material for | ||||
| carving or moulding | 2,448 | 2,068 | 4,260 | 4,131 |
| Wooden wares | 859 | 769 | 1,707 | 1,666 |
| Paper, cardboard and wares thereof | 1,349 | 1,205 | 9,342 | 9,111 |
| Books, pictures, paintings | 1,992 | 2,036 | 4,667 | 4,765 |
| Earthenware | 467 | 377 | 5,224 | 4,612 |
| Glass and glassware | 747 | 728 | 5,671 | 5,149 |
| Precious metals and wares thereof | 13,281 | 21,243 | 18,629 | 6,858 |
| Gold | 11,616 | 19,295 | 15,898 | 6,151 |
| Gold | 11,184 | 18,873 | 11,071 | 2,897 |
| Gold wares | 432 | 422 | 4,827 | 3,254 |
| Silver | 1,665 | 1,948 | 2,731 | 2,707 |
| Silver | 1,434 | 1,716 | 1,206 | 1,418 |
| Silver wares | 231 | 232 | 1,525 | 1,289 |
| Base metals and wares thereof | 26,035 | 26,398 | 57,146 | 58,895 |
| Iron and iron wares | 5,903 | 4,472 | 38,899 | 40,162 |
| Pig iron (including non-malleable alloys) | 1,601 | 912 | 966 | 905 |
| Iron wares | 4,302 | 3,560 | 37,933 | 39,257 |
| Aluminium and aluminium wares | 546 | 453 | 368 | 273 |
| Raw aluminium | 529 | 433 | 152 | 77 |
| Aluminium wares | 17 | 20 | 216 | 196 |
| Lead and lead wares | 1,438 | 1,484 | 945 | 985 |
| Raw lead (including waste) | 1,427 | 1,470 | 525 | 568 |
| Lead wares | 11 | 14 | 420 | 417 |
| Zinc and zinc wares | 727 | 847 | 2,433 | 2,489 |
| Raw zinc (including waste) | 706 | 825 | 1,631 | 1,784 |
| Zinc wares | 21 | 22 | 802 | 705 |
| Tin and tin wares | 2,405 | 2,629 | 1,380 | 1,236 |
| Raw tin (including waste) | 2,357 | 2,581 | 787 | 688 |
| Tin wares | 48 | 48 | 593 | 548 |
| Nickel and nickel wares | 400 | 540 | 246 | 298 |
| Raw nickel | 375 | 527 | 160 | 233 |
