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In the above table only foreign countries which have in any one year provided about 1 per cent, or upwards are included, but all British Possessions are included.

British Possessions supplied the following percentages of the total imports into the United States of America :—–—

1901

1912 1918

---

THE

16 per cent. 1.0 0:25

*

Cayman Islands St. Lucia St. Vincent Barbados Grenada

Leeward Islands

Value of Total Importa

Weight of Total Imports...

Weight of Imports from-

Belgium

France ...

Germany

***

Mexico...

J

Brazdi... Colombia Peru

4

214

Dutch East Indies

United Kingdom

Canada...

:

Raw Rubber.

1901.

1912.

1918.

1,000 dola

28,455

1,000 lbs.

1,000 dola 98,013

55,276

1,000 lbs. 110,210

1,000 dola. 202,800

1,000 Ibs. 389,599

5,152

6,101

Nil

379

4,139

508

1,673

8,821

Nil

307

2,227

1,033

34,795

46,763

41,278

453

843

1,048

Negligible

609

3,565

Ni

77

++

53,664

7,462 Nil

29,728

21,927

75

4,247

***

Negligible

6,260

252,487

59

Figures in thousand pounds.

1901.

1913.

7

10

78

193

52

115

950

781

304

367

321

577

Trinidad and Tobago

Bermuda

British Honduras

2,446

6,200

98

91

286

643

British Guiana

1,716

2,110

Cyprus

389

1,154

Malta (1910)

863

700

Totals

61,894

104,917

*Federated Malay States (1905)

9,340

17,345

*North Borneo *Sarawak

383

863

566

Grand Total

62,183

801

123,926

225

IMPORTS (INCLUDING GOLD AND SILVER BULLION AND SPECIE) FROM UNITED KINGDOM INTO ALL CROWN COLONIES AND BRITISH PROTECTORATES UNDER THE COLONIAL OFFICE, BUT EXCLUDING ALL SOUTH AFRICAN PROTECTORATES.

Figures in thousand pounds.

Straits Settlemerita

Federated Malay States

Unfederated

Ceylon and North Borneo

1901.

1913.

Aden

339

394

Straits Settlements and Labuan

3,117

6,176

Ceylon

2,058

3,880

Mauritius

In the above table only those countries are included whose nominal exports of rubber to the United States of America exceede one million lbs. annually.

The British Possessions specified above supplied the following percentages of the total importe into United States of America :-

686

816

Seychelles Papua

27

26

cannot be stated.

cannot be

stated.

Fiji

10

153

1901 1912 1918

7 per cent. 31

71

"

Gilbert and Ellice Islands

cannot be

cannot be

stated.

stated.

Falkland Islands

68

153

Figures in thousand pounds.

1901.

1913.

Aden

2,789

4,149

Straits Settlements and Labuan

25,649

45,375

St. Lucia

Ceylon

5,994

15,658

Mauritius

1,954

2,262

Seychelles

99

Papua

50

•128

Fiji

549

1,426

Gilbert and Ellice Islands

24

331

Falkland Islands

110

1,460

Nyasaland

22

266

Uganda (1902)

32

.607

East Africa Protectorate

96

1,483

Malta (1910)

Zanzibar

1,169

1,408

Cyprus

Somaliland

349

225

St. Helena

Nigeria

Gold Coast

5

8

2,236

7,352

560

5,427

Sierra Leone

304

1,732

Gambia

237

867

Bahamas

177

204

1901 1913

144

Turks and Caicos Islands

40

28

Jamaica

1,939

2,430

Canada is included because its supply is presumably drawn mainly from British Crown Colonies in the first place. India, which exports two or three million lbe. annually to the United States of America, is left out as it is not a Crown Colony.

The 1918 figures for Belgium, France, Germany and the United Kingdom as compared with the 1912 figures show the effect of the shipping shortage and of the blockade.

The 1918 figures show conclusively how dependent the United States of America has become on British Crown Colonies for its supplies,

TOTAL EXPORTS, INCLUDING BULLION AND SPECIE, OF ALL CROWN COLONIES AND PROTECTORATES COMING UNDER THE COLONIAL OFFICE, BUT EXcluding all parTS OF SOUTH AFRICA.

Zanzibar

St. Helena

Nigeria

Gold Coast

Sierra Leone

Gambia

Bahamas

Turks and Caicos Islands

Jamaica

Cayman Islands

Nyasaland

109

149

Uganda (1905)

91

391

East Africa Protectorate

115

907

107

167

101

37

1,645

4,938

1,321

3,466

412

1,138

117

387

68

91

3

4

858

1,088

cannot be

1

stated.

204

165

St. Vincent

Barbados

Grenada

Leeward Islands

Trinidad and Tobago Bermuda

British Honduras

British Guiana

:::

66

32

50

463

519

114

113

161

222

921

1.179

412

155

77

144

703

907

968

1,199

165

177

15,362

29,081

Assuming that each £150 of Imports from the United Kingdom gave employment to one person in the United Kingdom, the number of persons in the United Kingdom whose employ- ment was due to Exports to above Crown Colonies and British Protectorates was:-

102,400 equal to 0:55 per cent. of total. 193,900

0.93

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