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cwts. of raw cotton were imported into Germany, 

 and only 16,000 cwts. of cotton goods were ex- 

 ported ; cotton spinning and weaving were 

 mostly insignificant home industries. Twenty 

 years later the imports of raw cotton were al- 

 ready 3,600,000 cwts., and in another twenty 

 years they rose to 7,400,000 cwts. ; while the 

 exports of cottons and yarn, which were valued 

 at 3,600,000 in 1883, and 7,662,000 in 1893, 

 attained 19,000,000 in 1905. A great industry 

 was thus created in less than thirty years, and 

 has been growing since. The necessary technical 

 skill was developed, and at the present time 

 Germany remains tributary to Lancashire for 

 the finest sorts of yarn only. However, it is 

 very probable that even this disadvantage will 

 soon be equalised.* Very fine spinning mills 

 have lately been erected, and the emancipation 

 from Liverpool, by means of a cotton exchange 

 established at Bremen, is in fair progress .-f* 



In the woollen trade we see the same rapid 

 increase, and in 1910 the value of the exports 

 of woollen goods attained 13,152,500 (against 

 8,220,300 in 1894), out of which 1,799,000 

 worth were sent on the average to the United 



* Francke, Die neueste. Entwickelung der Textil- Industrie in 

 DeutscJiland. 



f Cf. Schulze Gawernitz, Der Grossbetrieb, etc. See Appen- 

 dixes D, E, F, 



