Our two branches, at Bodenbach and London, were ex- 

 tremely busy during the summer months, and the turnover at both 

 of them shows a considerable increase as compared with the previous 

 year. Although no definite basis has yet been found for the A us tro- 

 Hungarian "Ausgleich", and the result of the negotiations is still 

 very uncertain, our experience does not enable us to support the 

 view that this state of uncertainty has up to the present exerted 

 any unfavourable influence whatever on the trade. In the United 

 Kingdom, the past half-year also shows favourable figures, but 

 business can on the whole only be characterised as slow and difficult. 

 This must be attributed in the first place to the unsatisfactory position 

 of the wholesale soap industry, to which we have already referred in 

 our last Report, and which continues in face of the high prices of 

 the raw material, but which, it is hoped, will soon give way again to 

 normal conditions. 



Trade with the British Colonies was not particularly lively, but 

 in India, where the European perfume and soap manufacture is more 

 and more appreciated, a brisk demand existed, especially for syn- 

 thetic perfumes. 



Our New York branch has also worked with increasing success. 

 As far as the statistics have been made up, the value of our exports 

 to the United States shows a really important increase over that 

 of the corresponding months of last year. The prospects for the 

 autumn trade are not unfavourable, and a satisfactory result appears 

 certain again this year. How much the export of essential oils from 

 the Leipzig district to North America has grown during the last few 

 years, is clear from the statistics of the United States Consul at 

 Leipzig, which show the following figures for the two last fiscal years 

 (July i to June 30): 



1905/6 $ 197083.91 

 1906/7 „ 267454.54. 



The recently published official figures of the essential oils imported 

 and placed on the market in the United States in 1906 also show 

 a considerable increase in the total import, which came to 2.79 million 

 dollars, equal to an increase of 14% over tnat °^ I 9°5 1 )- Our 

 Leipzig industry of the essential oils has consequently every reason 

 to be proud of its progress in the export to the United States. 



Our readers may also be interested to know that the import of 

 essential oils in the Philippines has increased from $ 4358 in 1905, 

 to $ 5 5 5 > an d that Germany's share in these figures amounted to 

 no less than $ 2426 in 1905, and $ 4549 in 1906, whilst from the 



1 ) Report of the Commercial Expert at the Imperial Consulate-General at New- 

 York. Nachrichten fur Handel und Industrie 1907, Nr. 84. 



