OILS 



Trade 



OILS, OIL-SEEDS AND PERFUMERY 



Soap. 



Linoleum. 



Exports. 



Total Interests. 



Oil-seed Traffic. 



Cotton-seed. 



to Rs. 94,66,769 (or 631,118). The most significant feature of the returns 

 is the expansion of the demand for soap, namely from a valuation of Rs. 

 3,32,791 in 1876-7 to Rs. 31,90,890 in 1905-6 and Rs. 32,28,156 in 1906-7. 

 The growth of this traffic has been continuous,, notwithstanding the 

 fact that within the period dealt with India has made rapid progress as 

 a soap-manufacturing country. So also the expansion of the demand 

 for the goods treated under Oil and Wax Cloth is certainly remarkable, 

 seeing that the textile used for linoleum is jute, which is specially 

 manufactured in Calcutta and sent to Europe and America to be 

 subjected to its final transformation into the goods which reappear 

 under the imports indicated. The decline of the imports of ghi and the 

 enhancement of those of butter and tallow are also worthy of note, the 

 more so since the consumption of foreign candles has practically remained 

 stationary for the past thirty years. 



Exports to Foreign Countries. 



It may now be useful to set forth in a parallel series of quotations the 

 exports from India of the Oil-seeds, Oils, and Manufactures therefrom : 



Thus in approximately thirty years the exports under the above-men- 

 tioned articles have increased from a valuation of 3J to 9| million 

 pounds sterling. But to obtain a full conception of the importance 

 of Indian foreign transactions in oils and oil manufactures, it is 

 necessary to add the imports to the exports, when it is seen that the 

 total traffic has expanded from a valuation in 1876-7 of 3| million to 

 over 10| million pounds in 1906-7. 



Perhaps the most important feature in these returns is the steady 

 progression of the oil-seed traffic, which in 1876-7 stood at a valuation of 

 3,526,458 and in 1904-5 had expanded to 9,499,961, but contracted to 

 6,934,496 in 1905-6, and became 8,553,135 in 1906-7. And when the 

 details of these exports are looked into it is found that the traffic in cotton- 



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