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1920) and Exports at £67,691,877 (as against £108,369,937 for 1920).
Treasure imported during 1921 amounted to £13,797,095 (including £5,447,487 of gold and £8,193,934 of silver). Treasure exported during 1921 amounted to £17,981,357 (including £7,091,582 of gold and £10,519,014 of silver).
Tables have been included in the Annual Trade Return to show that the apparent drop in the volume of Trade as compared with 1920 is largely explained by the fall in the sterling value of the dollar, and in no way corresponds either to the dollar value or the actual quantities of the various commodities imported and exported.
Complete figures will be found in the Annual Trade Return for 1921, from which the following items may perhaps be of chief interest:
Imports Exports GOODS VALUE GOODS VALUE Coal £510,800 Coal £889,276 Chinese Medicines (not specially mentioned) 1,248,634 Chinese Medicines (not specially mentioned) 1,233,232 Cigarettes 2,320,398 Fish and Fishery Products, (Other) 1,427,318 Dyed Plain Cottons (not specially mentioned) 1,507,402 Flour, (Wheat) 1,091,694 Flour, (Wheat) 1,675,042 Gunny Bags 685,597 Ginseng 884,765 Kerosene 2,390,041 Kerosene 2,362,143 Leather, Sole 921,750 Leather, Sole 811,249 Matches 534,618 Peanuts 527,051 Rice Meal, (Rice Bran) 680,175 Rice Meal, (Rice Bran) 618,251 Shirtings, White (40/43 yds.) 2,202,620 Broken 13 Cargo 774,800 Cargo 1,119,896 Silk, Piece Goods 1,492,260 White 6,694,037 Glutinous 669,583 Shirtings, White (40/43 yds.) 908,594 Sugar, Raw 8,771,351 White 5,278,244 Sugar, Raw 2,774,115 Refined 949,392 Shirtings, White (40/43 yds.) 893,262 Refined 22 Silk, Piece Goods 1,419,249 Tin Slabs and Ingots 5,565,518 Sugar Candy 606,302 Tin Slabs and Ingots 1,387,800 Tobacco, Prepared, Native 322,966 Vermicelli 514,911 Yarn, Cotton 5,257,802