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COTTON IN EGYPT AND THE SUDAN. 



United States use every endeavour to grow a cotton similar to the 

 Egyptian variety in their own country. 



Shipments of Egyptian cotton to the U.S.A. is not made direct, 

 although this would be quite possible, but is transhipped at Liver- 

 pool owing to the powerful influence of the regular English lines of 

 steamers at that port. 



Of about 80,000 bales of Egyptian cotton imported yearly by 

 Germany only about 20,000 bales go direct to Hamburg, concur- 

 rently with a small quantity to Bremen and Danzig, whilst 

 the remainder for South Germany and Saxony goes via 

 Trieste, for Alsace via Genoa, Venice, and Marseilles, for Rhineland 

 via Antwerp, Rotterdam, and Hull; the Egyptian statistics state 

 only the countries of the ports to which the steamers carry the 

 cotton without consideration of the final country of destination. For 

 this reason the total German turnover with Egypt is, as a matter 

 of fact, considerably greater than given in these statistics. The 

 cause for this is due to our more unfavourable geographical posi- 

 tion, compared with that of our principal competitors, and to the 

 circumstance that German steamship communication is not so short, 

 frequent, quick, and cheap as that of our English, French, Italian, 

 and Austrian competitors. 



Direct freights between Alexandria and Germany are mostly 

 entrusted to the Deutsche Levant Line in Hamburg, and to the 

 Bremen Atlas Line, which are amalgamated ; the North-German- 

 Lloyd steamers carry some Egyptian cotton to France and Italy, also 

 some for transhipment to Spain, and it also conveys, via Port Said, 

 the supply of Egyptian cotton to the far East. 



The export, in bales of 7*60 kantars, reached the figures given 

 below. The countries of destination are arranged in the order of their 

 importance imported : 



In conclusion, the quantities exported, together with the prices, 

 are shown by the following figures, which refer to a few characteristic 

 years : 



