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Imports 1
Exports 1
1895
1896
1897
1895
1896
1897
£
£
£
£
£
£
Bahamas
172,581
194,774
186,010
124,011
138,972
149,085
Barbados .
956,921
1,048,887
1,008,699
587,298
758,228
736,163
Jamaica - .
2,288,946
1,856,378
1,660,667
1,873,105
1,470,241
1,448,443
Turks Islands .
26,735
30,245
33,239
21,688
31,498
43,303
Windward Islands : —
St. Lucia
154,945
190,534
245,253
137,869
93,720
154,267
St. Vincent
64,842
71,490
70,824
68,690
67,392
68,935
Grenada .
175,712
154,405
164,356
174,497
183,883
154,439
Leeward Islands : —
Virgin Islands
4,576
4,478
3.301
3,818
3,710
4,033
rSt. Christopher 1 Nevis
172,281
185,214
135,921
140,542
119,361
1 149,204
Antigua .
144,864
1.^5,627
110,188
87,125
131,113
117,202
Montserrat
24,480
26,497
22,269
17,189
25,912
22,063
Dominica
69,789
64,477
54,074
39,471
51,438
47,416
Trinidad .
2,276,864
2,463,525
2,161,231
2,065,104
2,165,820
1,994,926
Tobago . Total value
13,643
13,932
11,655
10,517
10,765
4,681
6,545,426
6,440,463
5,867,687
5,351,124
5,252,053
5,094,160
1 Including bullion and specie.
For year ended March 31.
Trinidad alone, in 1897, exported sugar valued at 537,107Z. ; cocoa, 605,690^.; molasses, 16,991Z. Jamaica exported sugar, 120,959Z. ; rum, 92,053^.; coffee, 165,494Z. Barbados : sugar, 447,430^.; molasses, 86,094^. St. Vincent: sugar, 25,592Z, ; arrowroot, 21,859Z. Grenada: cocoa, 132,642Z.; spice, 13,503Z. St. Lucia: sugar, 59,398^.; cocoa, 17,158Z. Leeward Islands: sugar, 236, 209Z.
In 1897, Jamaica imported cotton goods worth 208, 318Z. ; fisli, 116,240Z. ; flour, 162,378^.; rice, 40,432^. Trinidad imported flour, 1 27, 383^. ; textiles, 309,611?.; rice, 148,777?.; Bahamas: cottons, 39,436?.; flour, 25,417?. Barbados : cottons, 131,562?. ; flour, 57,843?. ; rice, 50,664?. ; fish, 82,457?. ; St. Lucia: cottons, 23,308?. ; flour, 17,756?. St. Vincent: flour, 8,610?. ; Leeward Islands : cottons, 42,828?. ; flour, 47,000?.; Grenada, flour, 23,158?. Total imports into Great Britain from the British West Indies in 1897, according to Board of Trade returns, 1,453,089?. (sugar, 560,288?. in 1896; 338,789?. in 1897 ; rum, 159,155?. ; cocoa, 418,996?.; and dye-woods, 58,194?.
Exports from Great Britain to West Indies in 1897, 1,784,185?. (cottons, 442,531?.; apparel, 197,033?. ; leather and saddlery, 92,487?. ; iron, 132,504?.; manure, 56,257?.; machinery, 48,785?.).
The total tonnage entered and cleared (foreign trade) in 1897 was as follows : —
Grenada . 443,808 Dominica . 407,460 Virgin Islands 11,545 Trinidad . 1,296,902 St. Kitts and \ Tobago . 44,094
Nevis . 491,629 '
Antigua . 445,948 Montserrat. 228,715
Bahamas . 518,217 Barbados . 1,335,962 Jamaica . 1,560,944 Turks Islands 328,374 St. Lucia . 1,780,560 St. Vincent . 248,877
Total (1897) 9,143,035 Total (1896) 8,234,484
Of the total tonnage returned iu 1897, 7,246,859 ; in 1896, 6,517,418 was British-
