IMI'OKTS AM) KXI'OKTS 



OILS 



Trade 



(Hooper, Rept. Labor. Ind. Atw. (Iialust. Sec.), 1906-7, 9) ; ////,,///,,/* 

 <nuinn. Linn., Sunflower (Hooper, Agri. Lodg., 1907, No. 1); and to 

 <Ht <-u*ii<l<it<i. Wall., the Indian Olive, wlm-li m Kohat fruit* abundantly 

 i \ 1 01 .per, I.e. 1904-5, 25). In the present article it is proposed to give in 

 one place a brief sketch of the oil interests of India collectively (exclusive 

 of petroleum and its derivatives). Collective treatment is necessary, not 

 only to link together kindred information but to exhibit the returns of 

 oils and fats (jzivcn in trade statistics as " Others "), which by any other 

 t r.Mt mriit would he omitted from this work. 



[Cf. Hurst, Lubricating Oils , Fata, etc., 1896, 115-210; Lawrence, Vollry of 

 Kashmir, 340; Andes, Vegetable Fats and (Kb, 1897, 11-62; Agri. Ledg., 1899, 

 No. 12 ; Dunstan, Imp. Inst. Tech. Repts, 1903, 123-45 ; Wright and MiU-holl, Oilt, 

 Fats, Waxes and their Manuf., 1903 ; Hurst, Painters' Colours, Oils and Varnishes, 

 1901, 359-95 ; Lewkowitsch, Oils and Fats, Cantor Lect. Soc. Arts, 1904, 795, 809, 

 819 ; Journ. Soc. Chem. Indust. (many articles) ; Oils and Fats in Trop. Agrist., 

 \XM., 125-6; Leather, Mem. Dept. Agri. Ind., HR7, i. (Chem. er.), No. 2.] 



FOREIGN TRADE IN OIL-SEEDS, OILS, FATS, ETC. 



The official returns here discussed may be viewed as separated into two 

 great groups IMPORTS and EXPORTS. Under each of these sections 

 may be formed, such as Fixed and Essential, with sub-sections, Vegetable 

 and Animal, and under these again still further groupings, according as 

 the substances are raw or manufactured. Taking the first year for which 

 fairly complete returns exist (1876-7), then twenty years later (1896-7) 

 and the most recent years (1905-7), the following statement may'be ac- 

 cepted as exhibiting the values of the more interesting transactions in the 

 combined traffic : 



Imports from Foreign Countries. 



Trade. 



Imports. 



It will thus be seen that while for approximately the past thirty 

 years the imports have increased threefold, during the past eight or nine 

 years they have manifested a tendency to decrease. Prior to 1906-7 the 

 highest year on record was 1901-2, when the total of the above articles came 



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