FLAX, HK-Ml' AND JITE G00I)>5, 



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The import of yarn, as shown in the table, is qnite insignitlcant. The abrupt 

 cessation of the import in 1883 is explained by the classing of sewing thread and fine 

 string under a different head in the customhouse tariff. In any case the import dur- 

 ing the last live years is 30 per cent lower than that from 1883 to 1886. At present 

 only high numbers of flax yarn are imported which, owing to the unsuitability of 

 the Eussian yarn, are not made at all, or else in very small quantities by the Eussiau 

 manufacturers. There is no import whatever of hempen or jute yarn. Two kinds of flax 

 yarn are mostly imported, namely good warp from Jsa 90 to X« 130, and cheap weft, 

 principally boiled, as after boiling the yarn loses 20 per cent of its weight. 



The chief kinds of rope and cordage imported are manilla hemp and New 

 Zealand flax ropes, and cord made of yarn above Nos. 8 to 10, manufactured from 

 Italian or German hemp, and finally, fishing nets to the amount of a few tons. In any 

 case the quantity and value, not only of the last-named goods but of all kinds of 

 cordage, are very insignificant when compared with the home production of 900,000 pouds 

 valued at 5,400,000 roubles from 1887 to 1889. The same conclusion may be arrived 

 at by consulting the following table: 



