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Tbe share of each division of the United Kingdom in the trade of the country is shown in the following table in thousands of pounds (sterling) :-
England and/ ^"^P°^*« . Wales 1 Exports A
Total
C Imports .
Scotland -! ,:, . f \ Exports .-!
Total
Ireland
Imports Exports
Total
1893
£1,000 363,470 194,6431
57,958'^
616,071
32,279
22,247^
901^
55,427
^,939 3271 202
9,386
1894
£1,000 366,441 194,630
56,8962
617,967
33,042
19,9411
877^
53,860
^,862 3251
72
9,194
1895
1896
£1,000
375,201 204,3011 58,9302
£1,000 398,157 217,3781
55,4662
638,432
671,001
32,731 21,524' 7652
34,285 22,5321 6862
55,020
8,758 3021 82
57,503
9,366 2351 812
9,068
9,682
1897
£1,000 406,157 211,316'
58,903-
676,376
34,420 22,6181 7732
57,811
10,452
286" 2782
11,016
1 British.
2 Foreign and Colonial.
Thus of the total trade, 90-8 per cent, falls to England and Wales; 7*8 per cent, to Scotland ; 1 "4 per cent, to Ireland.
The following table gives the total value of the imports of foreign and colonial merchandise, and of the exports of British produce and manufactures fiom and to foreign countries and British possessions in the years 1896 and 1897 :—
Countries
Imports of Merchandise
Exports of Produce and Manufactures of U.K.
1896
1897
1896
1897
British Possessions : India
Australasia British North
America South and East Africa
£ 25,285,467 29,402,549
16,444,259 5,418,014
£ 24,813,099 29,362,129
19,538,998 5,131,196
£ 30,097,768 21,915,655
5,755,726 14,066,459
£ 27,382,091 21,310,884
5,476,191 13,665,561
Orange Free State) do not appear in the returns, and much of the imported produce of Central Europe is entered as from Holland an<l Belgium. But imports from the Ea.st which have been transhipped at Colombo or at Marseilles, and those from Chile and Peru, which have l)een transhippe<l at Colon, are, as far as possible, credited to the true country of origin. Imports from Canada vid U.S. ports, and from the United States vid Canadian ports are, as far as possible, assigned to their proper origin ; but the distinction cannot always be ^made, and, especially in winter, an uncertain amount of imported tCanadian produce is credited to the United States.
Exports are, as a rule, credited to the country of ultimate destination as declared by the exi)orters, but those to countries without a seaboard are credited to the country of the port of ilischargc.
