TRADE AND COMMERCE.

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and manufactures into India in each of the ten years ended December 31, 1860 to 1869 :—

Years

Exports from India to Great Britain and Ireland

Imports of

British Home Produce

into India

£

£

1860

15,106.597

16,965,292

1861

21,968,752

16,411,756

1862

34,133,551

14,617,673

1863

48,434,640

20.002,241

1864

52,295,599

19,951,637

1865

37,395,454

18,269,413

1866

36.901,997

20,009,490

1867

25,487,786

21,805,127

1868

30,071,871

21,251,773

1869

33,245,442

17,559,865

The chief articles of export from India to the United Kingdom, in the year 1869, were raw cotton, of' the value of 18,340,869/.; indigo, of the value of 2,309,882/. ; jute, of the value of 2,124,398/. ; and rice, of the value of 2,078,265/. The chief articles of British produce imported into India in 1869 were cotton goods, of the value of 10,850,509/. ; iron, of the value of 1,732,357/. ; and copper, of the value of 1,245,491/.

Next to the United Kingdom, the countries having the largest trade with India are China and Japan, France, and Australasia. The value of the imports into India from all countries — including treasure and, in the case of the United Kingdom, foreign and colonial pro- duce — was as follows in each of the years ending the last of March 1867 and 1868 :—

Countries

1867

1868

£

£

United Kingdom .....

22,763,591

24,750,966

Aden .....

200,574

134,427

Africa, coast of

183,471

202,424

America, North and South

79,426

111,867

Arabian and Persian Gulfs

i

1,350,484

1,305,538

Australasia ....

1,022,786

644,245

Batavia, Java, and Sumatra

17.712

65,675

Ceylon

1,420,998

1,952,423

China .....

8,569,291

8,280,852

France .....

1,103,268

661,023

Maldive Islands

19,353

35,089

Mauritius and Bourbon .

487,720

442,102

Mediterranean ports

9,888

7,612

Penang, Singapore, and Malacca

1,703,683

1,417,155

-Egypt

2,756,843

5,486,918

Other Countries

566,861

60,231

Total .

42,275,619

47,128,291