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BRAZIL.
Tears
Arrabas
Value
1862-63
1,085,628
£
1,681,780
18.63-64
1,350,465
2,954,289
18.64-65
1,726,015
3,155,864
Cotton . . -
1865-66
2,899,004
4,691,741
1866-67
2,689,20C
3,346,025
Average
1,950,063
3,165,940
L
1867-68
3,382,025
3,392,864
'
1862-63
10,121,720
1,928,103
1863-64
8,016,127
2,003,634
1864-65
7,483,107
1,628,249
Sugar . . ■
1865-66
9,158,065
1,922,194
1866-67
8,167,685
1,826,126
Average
8,589,341
1,861,661
1867-68
8,710,930
2,273,542
r
1862-63
8,724,142
5,657,494
1863-64
8,183,311
5,413,084
1864-65
10,806,336
6,414,456
Coffee . .'A
1865-66
9,940,566
6,115,605
1866-67
13,048,464
6,978,255
Average
10,140,562
6,115,789
1867-68
14,546,770
8,363,315
The extent of the commercial intercourse of Brazil with the United Kingdom for the ten years 1860 to 1869 is shown in the subjoined table, which gives the value of the exports of the empire to Great Britain and Ireland, and of the imports of British and Irish produce : —
Exports from Brazil to
Imports of British Home
Years
Great Britain
Produce into Brazil
1860
£
2,269,180
£
4,446,776
1861
2,631,480
4,552,165
1862
4,414,187
3,735,781
1863
4,491,000
3,964.261
1864
7.021,121
6,249,260
1865
6,797,241
5,654,920
1866
7,237,793
7,224.794
1867
5,902,011
5,694,557
1868
7,455,803
5,351,989
1869
7,312,494
6,964,808
The two great staple articles of Brazilian exports to the United Kingdom are raw cotton and unrefined sugar. The value of the .cotton exports to Great Britain, was 4,379,793/. in 1864; 4,373,811/. in 1865; 4,806,065/. in 1866; 3,341,206/. in 1867; 4,483,822/. in 1868; and 4,093,727/. in 1869. Of sugar, sent in regularly increasing quantities., the export value was 1,466,223/. in 1864 ;
