BRITISH IMI'OKTS 

 Import* Into (iremt Britain. 



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Chief contributing countries of supply to Great Britain othr than IndU: 



The table exhibits many instructive features, some of which may 

 be here dealt with. For example, of the exports from India by far the 

 most important purchasing country is the United Kingdom. The next 

 important countries are Belgium, France and Egypt. In 1905-6 these 

 three together took 3,039,881 cwt., or littl.- more tluin one-fifth of th. 

 supply consigned to the United Kingdom alone. And what is perhaps even 

 more significant, the demands of all countries (other than (in-nt Britain) 

 have practically remained stationary for some years past, while the supply 

 to the United Kingdom has gone forward in a most significant manner. 

 So also the figures of shares taken by the ports of shipment from India 

 exhibit a remarkable parallelism with recent extensions in irrigation and 

 facilities in transport. The port of Karachi taps the Panjab, Rajputana 

 And to some extent also Central India and the United Provinces. The 

 expansion of the Karachi traffic has been phenomenal, and the extension 

 of railway communication toward Calcutta must to some extent account 

 for the progress made by that port. 



Reverting to the decennial standard, it may now be shown what pro- 

 portion the exports bear to production. The average production of the 

 ten years ending 1905-6 has been shown as 143,411,020 cwt. The exports 

 from India in 1905-6 came to 18,750,467 cwt. (valued at Rs. 8,53,43,996), 

 or 13 per cent, on the average standard ; but if the figure of actual pro- 

 duction for the year named be accepted, viz. 171,206,800 cwt., the exports 

 would represent only 10'9 per cent, of the supply. The year 1903-4, as 

 also 1904-5, was notable in the wheat trade. India exported in the former 

 25,911,312 cwt. (valued at Rs. 11,08,89,546), which expressed to the 

 decennial standard would be 18 per cent., and to the actual crop of 1903-4 

 13-4 per cent. In 1904-5 the exports were 43,000,502 cwt. (valued at 

 Rs. 17,90,60,692 or 11,937,379), or 30 per cent, on the decennial standard 

 And 28'2 per cent, to the recorded actual production. 



An examination of the table given reveals the further fact that in 1904-5 

 India headed the list of countries concerned in the supply of wheat to 

 Great Britain. In that year it furnished the United Kingdom with wheat 

 valued at close on 8 million pounds sterling. India's contribution was 

 then close on 29 million cwt., while Russia supplied 23$, the Argentine 

 21 , Australia 10, the United States 7, and Canada 6 million cwt. 



PRODUCTION AND TRADE IN FLOUR. the proportion of flour 

 exported from India gives, of course, no evidence of the magnitude of the 



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