DATE-FRUITS. 



TABLE XXVIII. 



Annual quantities of date-fruits exported by sea from British India during 

 the 5 years ending 31st March 1915, their ports of export, total value 

 and mean value per pound. 



Data obtained from the Director-General, Commercial Intelligence Department. 

 India. 



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Most of the dates were apparently exported in these years 

 from Bombay, and the chief places to which the fruits were 

 exported, seem to be Ceylon, Straits Settlements, Zanzibar, 

 Siam, Italian East Africa, and German East Africa. It should 

 be noted that the wholesale value of the dates imported into 

 India works out to 0'87 to 0*96 pence per Ib., while that of those 

 exported works out to 1*02 to T14 pence per Ib. The values 

 are those given at the Indian ports in both cases ; therefore, the 

 chances are that the Indian importers simply re-exported the 



