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g-oods. then the relative import of foreign niannfactures in recent years must be 

 estimated at the following rate: imported gray, lileaclied and dyed goods, excepting 

 goods dyed Adrianople red, 0.2 per cent: printed and dyed in Adrianople red. 0.05 

 per cent; velvet, plush and ribbon velvet, 0.02 per cent ; total amount of impoited 

 textures, 0.27 per cent. Thus the import of cotton manufactured tissues of foreign 

 make form an insignificant item in comparison with tiic Eussian production, and do not 

 exceed one three- hundreth part of the whole of tlie Hussian consumption. In leference 

 to the value of imports, taking the produce of the Hussian cotton manufacturing in- 

 dustry of late years approximately at 340,000.000 roubles, it must be presumed that 

 the value of foreign cottons imported form about 25 per cent ; yarns, 2.5 per cent ; 

 goods, about 0.05 per cent; total, about 28 per cent of the value of goods produced 

 by tiie Eussian manuf.ictoiies. In valuing the statement of imports the export trade 

 must be taken into consideration. Russia exports manufactured cotton goods princi- 

 pally to Turkey, Bulgaria, Koumania, Persia and China. The most important export 

 trade is carried on with Persia, whose demand for Russian manufactured goods yearly 

 increases. Of this fact one may be convinced by ihe following statistics. 



In 1883 the imports to Persia of Russian manufactured goods scarcely reache I 

 5,200 pouds, w'hile of late years there have been exported: 



1887. 1888. I88!t. 1890. 



Pouds . . . 18,934 24.867 26,306 31,241. 



Therefore, recently the exports have been six times greater than they were in 

 1883. Comparing the totals of foreign Russian trade it must be acknowledged, in 

 respect to quantity, that the export of Russian manufactured cotton goods fully covers 

 the iuiport of goods of foreign make.. 



The yea k l y re t u k x s of the i n d u s t k y. 



Fiom data collected by the Department of Trade and Manufacture, the output of 

 the cotton mamifacturing industry of Russia for late years is shown by the following 

 ligures : 



