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THE BRITISH EMPIRE : — EGYPT
Value of the leading imports and
exports during three
years : —
Imports
Exports
Merchandise
1918
1919 £E
1920
1918 21
1919
1920
£E
£E
£E
£E
Animals A animal
food products .
2,293,405
1,704,098
2,080,793
375,906
320,485
328,457
leather goods
501,431
762,116
1,602,519
622,279
1,301,946
748,194
Other animal pro-
135,518
49,118
60,657
40,442
64,311
52,788
Cereals, vegetables
1,361,805
2,263,042
13,285,213
3,418,022
4,832J46
5,110,788
Colonial produce .
2,110,604
1,803,070
4,849.225
1,246,696
062,368
1,159,495
Spirits, oils, Ac. .
4,737,127
4,251,340
5,947,634
225,616
218,654
216,339
Paper, books, Ac.
1,658,666
1,270,824
2,150,094
73,50S
276,133
211,871
Wood A coal .
5,415,661
3,912,109
11,993,427
50,923
71,702
56,574
Stone,earthenware
and glass. .
730,476
553,151
1,933,695
2,388
20,59s
8,219
C olouring materials
580,024
690,782
883,570
0,448
90,579
51,7 H
Chemicals, per-
fumes, Ac. .
1,880,3S1
3,353,972
5,531,302
187,754
692,132
679,177
Textiles A yarns 1 .
22,190,210
18,845,7S7
34,441,258
38,298,026
66,077,660
75,612,121
Metals and manuf.
2,858,704
3,742,412
11,842,201
71,100
167,092
169,069
Sundries
1,000,305
1,137,152
2,094,412
23,097
00,439
110,107
951,121
Tobacco
3,100,929 51,155.306
3,070,744
3,184,99S
732,155
1,032,076
Total
47,409,717 1101,880,963
45,370,020
75,888,821
85,467,061
i The cotton tissues imported amounted, in 1918, to £E13, 085,467 ; in 1919, to £E11, 259,384, in 1920, to £E18,9S5,634. The quantity of raw cotton exported was, In 1918, 5,019,689 qantars, rained at £E38,034,467 ; in 1919, 6,708,906 qantars, valued at £E65,441,901, in 1920, 4,001,407 qantars, valued at £E75,096,026.
Of the total imports in 1918, the value of £E33, 535,624, and of the exports the value of £E40, 782,984, passed through the port of Alexandria ; in 1919, of the imports, £E34,882,S72 ; of the exports, £E72,453,903 ; in 1920, of the imports, £ES0,988,567 of the exports, £ES2,456,180.
Goods imported into Egypt are examined by experts, who determine their value according to the market price in their original country, plus the cost of transport, freight, insurance, Ac. In order, however, to facilitate customs operations, the administration, in communication with the merchants interested, establishes, on the same basis as above, periodical tariffs for common articles of importation. In the statistics of the Custom House, the values are taken according to the estimated price which served as the basis for the payment of duty, now fixed at 8 per cent, ad valorem (except coal, liquid fuel, charcoal, firewood, petroleum ; oxen, cows, sheep and goats, whether alive or cold stored, the duty on which was reduced to 4 por cent, ad valorem from November 25, 1905 ; and alcoholic drinks, perfumes, and alcoholic extracts, on which the duty was raised to 10 per cent, on April 30, 1915). As regards exports, there are tariffs for nearly all of them, estimated in the same manner as the tariffs of imports. The quantities recorded in statistics are those declared by the merchants and controlled by the Customs.
The origin of imports and destination of exportsare declared by importers and exporters and controlled, as much as possible, by the searchers and appraisers of the Custom House.
Principal imports into the United Kingdom from Egypt, and the principal exports from the United Kingdom to Egypt, according to British Board of Trade returns : —
British Imports from Egypt
Exports of British Produce to Egypt
Tear
Raw Ootton
Cotton Seed
Eggs
Oil Seed Cake
Cotton Goods
£
7,728,861 13,824,498 9,014,163
Coal, Ac.
£
2,464,887 1,071,982 2.188,828
8,579,838
Iron 4- Steel and Manu- factures
Woollen Goods
. * 1013) 17,642,358 1918 ,18,927,829
1917 i26,187,8S4
1918 44,469,567
1919 50,84(1,618
4 2,005.471 3,102,323 3,269,180 6,394,110 5,008,880
X 866,672 974,658 1,015,840 715.170 980,674
£
817,003
774,234
1,371.412
9.7 !•; 9,09,788
£ 718,8
614,671 773,824
797,899 1,069,555
252,432
631,727
1,017,868
1,089,180
898,778
1 Including Anglo-Egyptian Sudan in 1913.
