COxMMERCE 145

The staple articles of import from India into the United Kingdom —

Cotton (Raw)

Jute

Seeds

Year

Wheat

Tea

Ricel

Indigo

1908 1909 1910 1911

19122

£ 1,414,332 1,477,451

2,745,640 2,197,917 1,309,000

1,297,138

0,944,406

7,408,549

7,894,573

10,945,000

£ 5,817,191

4,582,326 4,658,450 5,943,882

£ 2,582,057 3,190,796

0,497,028 5,631,054

£ 5,752,364 6,311,102 0,231,385 7,096,584 7,054,000

£

1,595,730 1,495,743 1,986,099 1,752,727

£ 117,363

124,112 20,563 50,730

1 Including Rice Meal and Flour. ■•^ So far as iuforination is available.

Other impoits (1911) were: leather, 2,752,798Z. ; untanned goat skins, 475,515Z. ; coffee, 244,752Z, ; teak wood (hewn), 620,945?.; jute manufac- tures, 1,931, 251Z. ; lac, 335,112?. ; wool, 1,553,035?.; myrobalans (dye stuff), 137,670/. ; manganese ore, 286,672?.

The chief articles of British produce exported to India are as follows : —

Also (1911) railway and other carriages, 1,095,4617. ; new ships, 67,262?. ; printed books, 282,382?. ; chemicals, 500,136?.

The foreign trade of the six largest ports in merchandise only, imports and exports, in five years : —

—

1907-08

1908-09

1909-1910

191U-11 Rs

1911-12

Rs.

Rs.

Rs.

Rs.

Calcutta . .

122,55,74,472

110,47,99,568

110,50,85,514

126,38,85, !^S7

137,84,94,470

Bombay . .

93,00,32,075

82,50,50,557

95,07,42,093

110,37.70,227

112,42,52,466

Rangoon . .

24,99.03,518

22,23,56,777

22,71,81.652

27,21,53,982

31,78,48,431

Madras . .

14,85,47,476

15,30,33,289

13,74,45,679

15,21,52,505

10,34,72,934

Karachi . .

28,71,69,555

19,93,07,125

32,00,05,972

.33,63,05.583

37.84,35,028

Tuticorin . .

4,48,61,348

4,59,93,873

5,25,53,764

5,91,15,640

0,30,45,374