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THE BRITISH EMPIRE: — UNITED KINGDOM
in this country is required and recorded in the returns. This is ascertained from the declaration made by the importers, and is checked by the expert knowledge available in the Customs Department, with the help of current price-lists and market reports. For exports, the value at the port of shipment (including the charges of delivering the goods on board) is taken. Imports are entered as from the country whence the goods were consigned to the United Kingdom, which may, or may not, be the country whence the goods were last shipped. Exports are credited to the country of ultimate destination as declared by the exporters.
Imports by air in 1920 amounted to 677,O00J., and exports to 339,0002. The trade was mainly in clothes and furs.
The estimated weight of imports is: — 54*5 million tons in 1913, and 89 million in 1919 ; of British exports, 91 '4 million tons in 1913, and 46*1 million in 1919 ; of re-exports, 1,750,000 tons in 1913. and 1,500,000 in 1919.
The total estimated value of the imports and exports of Ireland (including the trade with Great Britain) is given by the Irish Department of Agricul- ture and Technical Instruction, as follows : —
1914
1916
1917 1 1918
1919
Imports- Farm produce, food and drink stuff's
Manufactured goods
Thous. £ 26,971 11,162
35,862
Thous. J 39,050 17,794
47,073
Thous. £ Thous. & 41,419 1 34,429 21,392 ! 21,689 50,370 69,898
Thous. £
55,245 24,433
79,03b
Total Imports
73,995
104,517
119,181
71,801 5,802 50,702
126,010
78,254
5,369
69,308
158,716
Exports- Farm produce, food and drink stuffs
Manufactured goods
41,607 4,274 31,430
77,311
62,577
4,588
40,006
98,709 0.777 75,540
Total Exports .
107,171
133,8*5 152,931
176,032
Imports into Ireland from Great Britain, 1919, 132,374,000/. ; exports to Great Britain, 174,005,000/.
Trade of the United Kingdom according to countries (figures for 1920 aie provisional) : —
Exports of Merchandise consigned Value of Merchandise! to countries iu first column
Consigned from |
Countries in first Countries column British Produce.
foreign Court triee : Europe and Coloniee — Kussia Sweden Norway Denmark (including Faroe Islands)
Iceland and Greenland
Danish W. India Island Germany Netherlands
Java
Dutch Possessions in the Indian Seas .
Dutch West India Islands
Dutch Guiana
Thous. £
40,271 14.213 7,437
23,831
23 80,411 28,578
2,086
L828
■ 42
378
1920
1913
Thous. £ Thous. £
34,183 18,103 .',0,372 8,220
23,851 6,147
81,157 514
31,120 89,292
2B.700
8,061 I S3
49
5,792 210
59
4(1,677
15,42'.i
5.701
1,645 50 89
1920
Thous. £
11,898
39,832 33,387
30,635
1,023
30
21,723
47,'.' l r . 18,413
4,901 134 136
Foreign and Colonial Produce.
1920
Thous. £ Thous. £
9,591
1,014
518
551 30
8 19,888
5,l»93 46
11
2
9
4,842 6,006 1,942
29,876 14,401
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