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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

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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

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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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