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commodities which she need have imported were much 

 less than this in amount. 



A hundred out of the 700 milHons of imports were 

 not required for use in the United Kingdom, but were 

 re-exported. 



Of the 600 millions of remaining imports a hundred 

 million represented manufactured goods. Now if the 

 United Kingdom conducted her exchanges with the 

 Dominions these imports would become unnecessary 

 and would be replaced by home manufactures. This 

 leaves a total of 500 million pounds' worth of necessary 

 imports. 



From this total must be deducted fifty million pounds' 

 worth of miscellaneous articles, consisting of such things 

 as sardines, spices, yeast, camels' hair, silk, esparto, hay, 

 ice, ivory, guano, nitrate of soda, phosphate of lime, &c., 

 with which the Dominions are unlikely to supply us 

 and which we must continue to import from elsewhere. 



With this exception the necessary imports of the 

 United Kingdom, it will be argued, were and are of a 

 nature which the Dominions could supply. We shall 

 discuss their capacity to do so. 



It is sometimes said, however, that the capacity of 

 the Dominions to satisfy our needs is already sufficient 

 if only they sent the whole of their products to us and 

 not to other countries. It is true that the eighty-two 

 million pounds' worth of food and raw produce which the 

 three Dominions sent us by no means represented the 

 whole of their production available for export. Canada 

 exchanged as much, Australia more than as much, with 

 the rest of the world as with the United Kingdom. 

 This suggests the thought that their trade with us 

 could be considerably increased if the commodities 

 which they send to other countries were sent hither 

 instead. 



The accompanying table (No. XVI) shows the state 



