156 THE HRlTrSS EMPIRE:— IN'DIA AND ftEt^ENllENcltiS
1893
1894
£
27,648,857
29,339,781
1895
£
26,431,315
24,753,008
1896
1897
Imports into U.K. from India Exports of British produce to India .
£
26,233,949
28,814,880
£
25,265,467
30,097,768
j6 24,813,09&
27,382,091
The following table shows the staple articles of import from India into the United Kingdom in five years : —
Year
Cotton
Wheat
Jute
Seeds
Tea
Rice
I Indigo 1
1
1893 1894 1895 1896 1897
£ 1,111,080 1,297,542
759,080 1,039,646
635,341
£
1,951,816
1,429,433
2,342,132
625,092
241,447
£ 3,615,327 4,597,898 4,330,519 4,154,083 3,922,806
£ 2,678,640 2,996,803 1,252,099 1,364,017 1,261,541
£ 4,735,767 4,874,471 5,096,450 5,240,818 5,450,329
£ 1,529,938 1,327,838 1,853,461 1,198,561 1,056,352
£
1,265,549 1,042,739 1,281,735 1,434,358 1,372,603
Other articles are: leather, of the value of 2,295,433Z. ; untanned hide.?,
623,231^.; coffee, 522,034Z.; wool, 1,038,534Z. in 1897.
The chief articles of British produce imported into India are as follows : — •
Year
Cotton Manu- factures
Cotton Yarn
Iron
Copper
Machinery
"Woollens
1
1893 1894 1895 1896 1897
£ 16,091,501 18,242,305 12,874,145 16,372,918 13,738,522
£ 1,773,047 1,643,254 1,627,360 2,061,031 1,957,628
£ 2,065,553 1,773,782 2,011,867 2,985,738 3,188,493
£ 788,317 638,950 699,504 486,152 550,945
£ 2,056,027 1,744,087 1,978,481 2,365,006 2,174,032
£ 614,289 419,087 417,215 556,009 401,634
The imports from India into Great Britain, and exports of domestic produce and manufactures from Great Britain to India were as follows in
1897 :—
Bombay and Sind
Madras
Bengal
Burma
Imports from
3,473,438
3,462,374
15,999,536
1,877,751
24,813,099
Exports tx)
£
9,404.197
2,822,190
12,813,303
2,342,401
27,382,091
The following figures show the actual extent of the foreign trade of the six largest ports' in merchandise only, imimrts and exports (including re- exports), during the last five years, in tens of rupees : —
