TRANSACTIONS OF SECTION F. 



871 



Decrease of the total imports from £96,000,000 (rough figures) to £72,000,000 

 iu 1880, and increase to £112,000,000 in 1882. 



Increase of imports at the Spanish Peninsula from £278,093 to £584,972 in 1883. 



Increase of the Spanish Antilles from £563,451 in 1877 to £2,136,168 in 1882, 

 and to £1,856,897 in 1883 (in the same period of time from 1877 to 1881). 



Increase. — The imports from the United Kingdom, from £39,000,000 to 

 £43,000,000. 



Decrease. — The imports from the United States, from £51,000,000 to 

 £36,000,000. Ahout the same amount of imports, in the years between 1877 and 

 1881— from France £1,410,772 in 1877 and £1,663,266 in 1881 ; and from Holland 

 £202,577 in 1877 and £225,190 in 1881. 



Increase of imports from Germany and Belgium more than 160 per cent. 



Exports from Canada to thk following Countries. 



During this period of time we find — 



Decrease of the exports to the Spanish Peninsula from £62.652 to £46,653 in 

 1881, and increase to £164,979 in 1883. 



From 1877 to 1882— 



Increase of the exports to the United Kingdom from £41,000,000 in 1877 to 

 £53,000,000 in 1881. 



Increase with the United States from £25,000,000 in 1877 to £36,000,000 in 1881. 



Increase about 100 per cent, with France, and more than 100 per cent, with 

 Germany and Holland, and near 300 per cent, with Belgium. 



Since the great trade made by the Dominion wdth the United States and the 

 United Kingdom and her colonies, Spain with her colonies came in order of impor- 

 tance before France, Germany, and other nations. 



The Total of Imports and Exports of Canada with the Spanish 

 Peninsula and her Colonies are as follows. 



This statement shows an increase from £2,183,583 in 1877 to £3,513,762 in 

 1881,' — that is to say over 60 per cent., — and £3,075,263 in 1883, or over 68 per 

 cent, in 1883. 



At the same years were the — 



