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ports of live animals for slaughter in 1900 were 

 9,014,637 in value; of articles of food and drink 

 free of duty, 178,513,847; of articles of food and 

 drink paying duty, 27,242,421; of tobacco, 4,- 

 816,399; of metals, 33,186,303; of chemicals, 

 dyes, and tanning substances, 5,768,374; of oils, 

 9,690;576; of textile materials, 65,971,462; of 

 raw materials for various industries, 56,777,299; 

 of manufactured articles, 91,310,487; of mis- 

 cellaneous articles, 16,768,990; imports by par- 

 cel-post, 1,119,625. The domestic exports of 

 live animals were 903,945 in value; of articles of 

 food and drink, 13,612,364; of raw materials, 

 41,862,269; of yarns and textile fabrics, 102,- 

 230,983; of metals and metal manufactures, 45,- 

 422.986; of machinery and mill work, 19,621,557; 

 of new ships, 8,608,153; of apparel and articles 

 of personal use, 10,400,349; of chemicals and 

 medicinal preparations, 9,271,510; of other 

 articles manufactured or partly manufactured, 

 36,565,410; by parcel-post, 2,951,800. The im- 

 portation of wheat was 16,031,800 quarters. The 

 total imports of cereals, including flour, were 189,- 

 572,329 hundredweight; imports of potatoes, 

 8.903,534 hundredweight; of rice, 6,290,803 hun- 

 dredweight; of hams and bacon, 7,443,918 hun- 

 dredweight; of fish, 2,226,898 hundredweight; of 

 refined sugar, 19,253,478 hundredweight; of raw 

 sugar, 13,276,692 hundredweight; of tea for con- 

 sumption, 249,792,086 pounds; of butter, 3,378,516 

 hundredweight; of margarin, 920,416 hundred- 

 weight; of cheese, 2,711,805 hundredweight; of 

 beef, 4,322,738 hundredweight; of preserved meat, 

 804,471 hundredweight; of fresh mutton, 3,392,850 

 hundredweight; of the number of sheep and 

 lambs, 382,822; number of cattle, 495,134; great 

 hundreds of eggs, 16,881,838; proof gallons of 

 spirits, 8,764,550; gallons of wine for consump- 

 tion, 15,880,069. Of the wheat imports 10,135,200 

 hundredweight came from British possessions 

 and 58,480,790 hundredweight from foreign coun- 

 tries, of which the United States provided 32,588,- 

 470, the Argentine Republic 18,524,000, Russia 

 4,421,500, Germany 1,828,300, Roumania 756,100, 

 Turkey 131,200, and Chile 2,500 hundredweight, 

 while of the British possessions Canada sent 

 6,337,600, Australasia 3,788,200, and India 9,400 

 hundredweight. The imports of flour were 21,542,- 

 035 hundredweight, of which 17,871,307 hundred- 

 weight came from the United States. Of the im- 

 ports of tea 49.61 per cent, came from India, 35.20 

 per cent, from Ceylon, 11.99 per cent, from China, 

 1.84 per cent, from Dutch possessions, and 1.36 per 

 cent, from other countries. The value of grain 

 and flour imported in 1900 was 58,921,510; of 

 raw cotton, 41,027,181; of meat, 36,152,710; 

 of timber and wood, 27,877,443; of sheep and 

 lamb wool, 21,836,184; of sugar, raw and refined, 

 19,274,491; of butter and margarin, 19,915,- 

 371; of silk manufactures, 14,291,242; of woolen 

 manufactures, 11,472,231; of tea, 10,929,723; 

 of flax, hemp, and jute, 10,028,379; of hides and 

 leather, 8,792,934; of fruit and hops, 8,448,- 

 979; of iron manufactures, 8,307,421; of seeds, 

 7,550,462; of cheese, 6,853,317; of iron ore, 

 5,639,003; of eggs, 5,406,141; of copper, 5,- 

 276,859; of wines, 5,201,594; of tin, 4,359,133; 

 of copper ore and regulus, 4,690,548; of lead, 

 3,319,574; of currants and raisins, 3,237,362; of 

 coffee, 2,578,465; of zinc and zinc manufactures, 

 2,001,737; of pig and puddled iron, 1,461,332; 

 of steel, 1,218,179. The exports of cotton yarn 

 and manufactures and yarn were 69,775,339 in 

 value ; of coal and coke, 38,606,44^ ; of iron and 

 steel and manufactures thereof, 32,017,157; of 

 woolen and worsted yarn and manufactures, 21,- 

 790,823; of machinery, 19,621,557; of chemicals, 



9,271,510; of apparel and luihcn].' bcry, 6,- 

 826,373: of linen manufacture-;. 6,2 1.1, 20 J ; of 

 manufactured copper, 2,!K ) > 1 ,7'.K>: <>l li;n<lware 

 and cutlery, 2,139,423; of jute niii'Mi;;! im(^, 

 1,959,886; of linen yarn, 935,009; oi jute yarn, 

 486,222. The exports of cot Ion t'ah'i 

 62,032,313, and of cotton yarn 7,74:},i)2i;: 

 woolen and worsted fabrics 15,6(55,250, ;uH 

 woolen and worsted yarn 6,125,573. The. lot i] 

 for iron and steel exports included 5,998,731 f 

 pig iron, 1,541,058 for bar, bolt, rod, and an- 

 gle iron, 3,202,251 for railroad iron of all sorts, 

 904,567 for wire, 3,978,376 for tin plates, 4,- 

 727,945 for hoops, sheets, and plates, 5,872,457 

 for cast and wrought iron of all sorts, 375,280 

 for old iron, and 5,416,492 for steel and mixed 

 iron and steel manufactures. 



The imports from British possessions and the 

 exports to British possessions of British and Irish 

 produce and manufactures in 1899 were: 



The values of merchandise imports from for- 

 eign countries in 1899, and of exports to them, of 

 British and Irish produce and manufactures, were: 



