3A2 TIMBER TRADE OF THE ‘UNITED KINGDOM. 


19} per cent.; Norway, 811,100 loads, or 9 per cent.; and 
France, 669,800 loads, or about 74 per cent. 
To complete this review of the external timber trade of the 
United Kingdom, reference may be made to the export of 
British produce, and to the re-export of some of the foreign 
imported wood and timber. The export of British produce is 
chiefly in the form of manufactured goods, which amount in 
the aggregate to an average of £471,000 perannum. This total 
was made up of various unenumerated kinds of manufactured 
wood, which averaged £377,000 per annum in the five years 
1895-99, and of staves and empty casks, the annual value of 
which during the past five years has been about £94,000. 
Compared with the value of staves imported, the exports, 
it will be observed, amount to about one-sixth. 
The export of unmanufactured timber of British growth’ is 
insignificant; during the past five years it has ranged from 
597 loads in 1895 to 1,768 loads in 1899, with a declared value 
of from 43,993 to £9,481. 
The quantity of foreign timber rok Spee is not large, but 
its average value in the past five years has been about 
#,400,000 annually, the principal items being teak, sawn fir, 
and mahogany. 
