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Ions. Of the wheat imports in 1901 British pos- 

 sessions furnished 16,859,010 hundredweight, in- 

 cluding 6,096,710 hundredweight from Canada, 

 6,820,800 hundredweight from Australasia, and 

 3.841,500 hundredweight from India, and 52,888,- 

 820 hundredweight came from foreign countries, 

 of which the United States supplied 40,466,300 

 hundredweight, the Argentine Republic 8,080,000 

 hundredweight, Russia 2,541,500 hundredweight, 

 Germany 594,700 hundredweight, Roumania 512,- 

 100 hundredweight, Turkey 440,700 hundred- 

 weight, and other countries 253,120 hundred- 

 weight. Of the tea imports in 1900 India supplied 

 51.38 per cent., Ceylon 38.30 per cent., China 7.13 

 per cent., the Netherlands 2.21 per cent., and 

 other countries 0.98 per cent. The value of ce- 

 reals and flour imported in 1901 for domestic 

 consumption was 61,241,027; of raw cotton, 

 41,985,174; of meat, 39,987,806; of lumber and 

 wood, 24,558,862; of butter and margarine, 

 21,853,687; of wool, 21,503,960; of sugar, raw 

 and refined, 19,507,037 ; of silk manufactures, 

 13,025,204; of woolen manufactures and yarn, 

 11,894,552; of flax, hemp, and jute, 11,620,- 

 420; of oils, 11,030,606; of tea, 9,487,793; of 

 animals for food, 9,400,033; of dressed hides 

 and leather, 8,318,910; of fruit and hops, 

 8,082,568; of seeds, 7,872,858; of cheese, 

 6,227,277; of chemicals, dyestuffs, and tans, 

 6,129,559; of eggs, 5,495,778; of iron manu- 

 factures, 5,104,502; of wine, 4,937,343; of cop- 

 per ore, 4,920.600; of tobacco, 4,819,473; of 

 copper, 4,733,686; of iron ore, 4,551,429; of 

 tin, 4,215,645; of machinery, 3,962,068; of 

 coffee, 3,044,404; of lead, 2,843,996; of cur- 

 rants and raisins, 1,925,051; of zinc and zinc 

 manufactures, 1,667,068; of pig, puddled, and 

 bar iron, 1,527,573; of unwrought steel, 1,106,- 

 364. The value of cotton fabrics exported in 

 1900 was 65,712,756, and of cotton yarn 7,977,- 

 330; total cotton manufactures, 73,690.086. The 

 value of woolen fabrics was 14,255,29,3, and of 

 woolen and worsted yarn 5,238,638; total, 19,- 

 494,931. The value of linen fabrics was 5,012,- 

 834; of linen yarn, 824,900; of juto fabrics, 

 2.213,078; of "jute yam, 514,378; of apparel 

 and haberdashery, 7,056,925. The value of pig 

 iron was 2,631,746; of bar, bolt, angle, and rod 

 iron, 1.041,367; of railroad iron, 3,654,421; of 

 wire, 967,132; of tin plates, 3,706,958; of 

 hoops, sheets, and plates, 3,949,218; of cast and 

 wrought iron, 5,043,795; of old iron, 274,194; 

 of steel and manufactures of steel or steel and 

 ij-on, 4,036,842; total iron and steel, 25,305,- 

 673. The value of new ships sold abroad was 

 9,159,876. The exports of hardware and cutlery 

 were 2,079,087 in value; of copper, 3,512,847; 

 of machinery, 17.855,335; of coal, cinders, and 

 patent fuel, 30,336,582; of chemicals, 8,942,- 

 109. The values of imports of merchandise from 

 and of exports of British and Irish produce to the 

 different British possessions in 1900 are here given: 



The imports of merchandise from various for- 

 eign countries in 1900 and the exports to them 

 of British and Irish produce were valued as fol- 

 low: 



The value of merchandise transshipped in tran- 

 sit in 1900 was 11,016,516. The imports of gold 

 coin and bullion in 1901 were 20,715,628, and 

 exports 13,965,265; imports of silver coin and 

 bullion were 11,501,678 in value, and exports 

 12,049,837. 



Navigation. The total number of vessels en- 

 tered at the ports of the United Kingdom during 

 1900 was 353,462, of 105,051,375 tons; the total 

 number cleared was 348,179, of 103,726.553 tons. 

 These numbers include 284,908, of 55,828,569 tons, 

 entered and 280,037, of 54,425,666 tons, cleared 

 coastwise. The tonnage of vessels engaged in 

 foreign trade entered at British and Irish ports 

 in 1900 was 49,223,000 tons, of which 31,445,000 

 tons were British and 17,777,000 tons were for- 

 eign; cleared in the foreign trade, 49,301,000 tons, 

 of which 31,266,000 tons were British and 18,035,- 

 000 tons foreign. The tonnage of vessels entered 

 with cargoes from foreign ports was 36,186,000 

 tons, of which 24,426.000 tons were British and 

 11,760,000 tons were foreign; cleared with car- 

 goes, 43,672,000 tons, of which 2't, 906,000 tons 

 were British and 15.766,000 tons foreign; total 

 tonnage entered and cleared with cargoes, 79,858,- 

 000 tons, of which 52,332,000 tons were British 

 and 27,526,000 tons foreign. With cargoes and 

 in ballast the total foreign tonnage entered was 

 35,812,857 tons, of which 7,661,571 tons were Nor- 

 wegian, 6,027,208 tons German, 3.597,198 tons 

 Swedish, 3,494.797 tons Danish, 3.213,767 tons 

 Dutch. 2,822,375 tons French. 2,709,247 tons 

 Spanish, 1.601,606 tons Belgian, 1,419,078 tons 

 Italian, 1,179,497 tons Russian; 559,552 tons 



