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
