COMMERCE
Commerce.
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Imports and exports (excluding specie) conversions at current rates varying from 11 %d. to 16rf. per milreis (paper): —
1910 1017 191a 1919
1M0
imports Exports
£ £ M £> 40,309,436 44,509.646 52,810,883 , 78,177,000 56,462,103 63,031,101 61,167,975 | 130,085,000
124,406,000 107,514,000
Principal exports in 1919 and 1920 were (metric ton = 2,204-6 lbs.):—
Value 1919
Value 1920
Coffee (Sacks)
12,963,000
11,523,000 !
£
72,607,000
M ■ 1 7,000
Rubber (Metric tons)
m«sm
•23.^31
•'.000
11.000
Tobacco ,, . . .
4 ■..--.•
31,469 ;
4,357,000
•3.000
Sugar „ . .
69,429
109,141
3.714,000
6.147,000
Terba Mate (Tea) (Metric tons!
90,200
• I • N
3,201,000
2,973,000
Cocoa (Metric tons)
mjut
54,419
5,602,000
1,000
Cotton „
12,153
24,696
2,437,000
5,502,000
Leather „ . . .
56,790
37,265 i
6,027,000
4,021,000
Hides
5,166
3,966
3,072.000
2,990,000
Frozen and chilled meat
549,094
03,600
3,592,000
4,^99.000
The distribution of the imports and exports in 1918 and 1919 was at follows : —
From or to
Imports
Exports
1918
1919
1918
1919
£
£
£
United Kingdom .
10,783,721
12,737,231
0,168,829
9,483,666
Germany
—
201,-33
—
701,497
United States
18,984,413
37.422,752
21,287.015
54.079,947
France
2,518,993
2,967,405
5,564,065
27,267.743
Portugal
2,027,917
2,364,542
554,625
muss
Austria-Hungary .
—
4,646
135,41s
444,963
Belgium
—
110.132
.23.434
4,740,757
Argentina ....
10,020.245
12,032,250
9,296,626
5,836,881
Uruguay
1,741,645
6,362,33$
5,708,210
Holland
937,184
314,190
1,332,927
4,090,386
Italy
1,126,521
1,067,111
6,42
3,821,439
The chief articles of commerce between the United Kingdom and Brazil i Board of Trade statistics) in two years were : —
Imports into U.K. from Brazil
1918
Rubber 1,201,943
Raw cotton ... 325,644 Coffe* 142,504
1919
£
1,997,385
480,381
1,703,689
Exports from O.K. to Brazil
Coal, cinders, Ac. Cottons and yarn Machinery
1919
a
B,8t?,139
362.167
£ MsVKU i, «a,31(
714,872
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