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the mother country. 112 The leading exports are sugar, coffee, 

 rice, tea, indigo, cinchona, tobacco and tin. About one-half of 

 the rice exported goes to Borneo and China, but of the remaining 

 exports nearly four- fifths go to the Netherlands. 113 During the 

 last twenty years the proportion of Dutch exports which go to 

 the colonies has slightly decreased on the average but the per- 

 centages for i883 and 1898 are almost identical — 4.2 and 4.1 per 

 cent respectively. The proportion of imports of colonial origin 

 increased during the two decades from 9.3 per cent to 14.3 

 per cent. 



Turkey has gradually lost even her nominal hold on her posses- 

 sions, and the trade of the few remaining is not of great com- 

 mercial value to Turkey. 114 Egypt, the most prosperous one, re- 

 ceives only 9 per cent of her imports from Turkey, and sends 

 thereto only 1.9 per cent of her exports. 



Although Russia has acquired vast areas in Central Asia the 

 desired markets for goods have not been obtained because of the 

 scantiness and poverty of the population. Russia, of course, 

 does not feel the need of additional markets as keenly as do the 



Comparison of the Rate of Growth of the Trade of the Nether- 

 lands and the Dutch East Indies. 



Exports from 

 Netherlands. 



Exports from 

 Dutch East Indies. 



1875 

 1907 



538,971,000 

 2,212,000,000 



IOO 

 410 



177,076,000 

 364,558,000 



IOO 



205 



113 Statesman's Year-Book, 1910, p. 1050. 



114 Trade of the Turkish Possession in 1908 



Total imports 



Egypt 22,230,000 Egyptian 



pounds. 



Anglo-Egyptian Soudan .. 1,892,000 Egyptian 



pounds. 



Samos 26,302,000 piastres. 



Crete 21,071,000 drachmai. 



Total exports. 



26,076,000 Egyptian 



pounds. 



516,000 Egyptian 



pounds. 



24,774,000 piastres. 



18,372,000 drachmai, 



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