66 FOREIGN TRADING THEN AND NOW 



number of customers rapidly increases, the British 

 share of these customers is not, relatively to 

 the total, as great as it used to be. Foreign 

 countries are therefore, in their foreign trade, 

 going ahead faster than Great Britain is, in spite 

 of the tremendous start she had. She no longer 

 fills her own markets with her goods, and in the 

 foreign trade she does not keep pace with her 

 neighbours. 



