FIBRES 



(b) Foreign ports ... 



Including : United States 

 Siam 



Indo-China 

 Java 



West Indies 

 Turkey (Europe and 



Asia) 



Germany ... 

 Belgium ... 



36,000,000 bags 



13,000,000 



14,000,000 



11,000,000 



10,000,000 



9,500,000 

 6,500,000 

 6,500,000 



190,000,000 bags 



The United States and the Argentine alone take nearly 

 86 per cent, of the total production of gunny cloth from 

 India, as the following figures show: 



(a) British Empire 

 (6) Foreign ports... 



Including : United States 



America 

 Argentina ... 



of 



100,000,000 yd. 

 854,503,000 



662,534,000 yd. 

 161,916,000 ,, 



Generally it may be stated that, excepting the United 

 Kingdom, Hong Kong, and perhaps the Straits Settle- 

 ments, which are redistributing centres, the bulk of the 

 jute manufactures go to countries which are engaged in 

 producing large quantities of agricultural products, such 

 as the United States, Argentina, Australia, the West 

 Indies, Sandwich Islands, and Mauritius. Chile and 

 Peru, on the other hand, use large numbers of gunny 

 bags for the export of the produce of their nitre beds. 

 Of all the countries in the world, the United States is 

 much the largest consumer of Indian jute manufactures. 

 The value of India's exports to the United States has 

 risen from about Rs. 25 lacs in 1885 to about Rs. 6 crores 

 in 1910-11. The total value of exported Indian jute 

 manufactures approximates to 17 crores of rupees say, 

 11,000,000 sterling. In 1874-75 the foreign export 

 trade was only worth Rs. 22 lacs. 



The Indian coasting trade in jute manufactures, though 

 much smaller in volume and also increasing more slowly 

 than the foreign export trade, is nevertheless one of great 

 importance. Diagram No. 3 is interesting in this con- 

 nection as illustrating the progress of the Indian coasting- 

 trade since 1855. The diagram is based on the one con- 

 tained in the lucid report on the maritime trade of Bengal 

 for 1906-07 by Mr. L. F. Morshead, I.C.S. It is only 



