296

PUBLE RECORD OFFICE

Reference :-

C.O. 885

Percentage (approximate)—

British Colonies

Foreign countries

1902.

382

The exports to other countries did not amount to 7,000,000l. in any one case. The Australian Colonies as a whole, with a population of about 4,500,000, thus takes third place in importance as a consumer of British products, the exports thereto being more than two-thirds the value of similar exports to British India, with its 290,000,000 inhabitants.

Relative totals-

British Colonies and dependencies Foreign countries

£ 66,570,000 113,200,000

37 per cent.

63

per cent.

AMOUNT

383

TO BRITISH GOODS 10 NEW ZEALAND, AND AMOUNT

WHAT REBATE WOULD

DUTIABLE GOODS IMPORTED AMOUNT FREE GOODS.

British Manufactured Goods imported into New Zealand in British Vessels from places outside of the United Kingdom.

1901. Value

Duty paid on above

Value of imports from the United Kingdom-

1900. Imports, being the produce and manufacture of the United

Foreign and colonial merchandise

£

163,338

29,972

Dutiable Free

4,214,267 2,299,517

***

Kingdom

5,485,845

...

413,447

IMPERIAL CUSTOM DUTIES ON COLONIAL PRODUCTS.

Total exports from United Kingdom to New Zealand

5,899,292

8.

d.

The proportion of foreign goods to the total is 7 per cent.

Chicory

cwt.

(roasted or ground, &c.)

lb.

Coffee

cwt.

14 0

(kiln dried, roasted, or ground)

lb.

Cocoa

lb.

Tea...

lb.

Tobacco (unmanufactured)

lb.

"

Segara

Cavendish

Wine (up to 30 degrees)

(over 30 degrees)

Sparkling wine

Sugar

Fruit (canned and bottled)

Crystallized

Fruit pulp...

Milk (condensed, sweetened)

lb.

lb.

gallon

gallon

3040000+10

3202-000030

...

0 2

6

5 6

Deduct 7 per cent. from the total value of dutiable goods from the United Kingdom as shown above, the proportion of British dutiable goods is Deducting 2 per cent for import of British goods which may arrive in German or French vessels in Australia and transhipped to New Zealand, the value of British goods from the United Kingdom in British vessels may be assessed at

3,919,000

3,841,620

4 6

Total dutiable goods imported amounted to

On which the total duty paid was .......

6,479,400 2,174,497

Equal to 33 per cent. of the value

for every addi-

42

"

tional degree or

.0 3

Approximately, duty paid on British goods from the United

Kingdom in British vessels valued at 3,841,6201, was

1,280,000

part of degree

gallon

2 6

Revenue Customs.

8. d.

Rebate on this would be :—

cwt.

2 0 to 4 2

cwt.

1 0 to 3

0

At 5 per cent.

10 "

64,000

128,000

cwt.

4 2

51

cwt.

1

0 to 3

0

15 20

192,000

95

256,000

"

37

owt.

1

8 to 2 0

Grain :-

Total value of British goods imported in British vessels from

outside United Kingdom is

163,836

Wheat, oats, barley, maize, &c. Flour and meals

owt.

0

owt.

0

OD LO

3

5

Duty paid thereon ...

30,000

Rebate on this would be as under :

At 5 per cent.

1,500

10

3,000

33

"

Wool.

PRODUCTS WHICH WOULD BEÁR An Impost not cHARGEABLE TO THE COLONIES BUT MIGHT BE IMPOSED UPON PRODUCTS FROM FOREIGN COUNTRIES.

Meats (fresh and cured).

Sugar.

Tea.

15

4,500

15.

20

6,000

Imports from United Kingdom free, value

Dutiable

£ 2,239,517 4,214,267

Total 1900

£6,453,784

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Hemp and other fibre,

Grain.

Flour.

Butter.

Cheese.

Tallow.

{

Live #book.

Hides.

Timber.

Wines.

020.000,

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IMPORTS FROM COLONIES AS Against Imports FROM FOREIGN Countries, 1897–1901. Exporte of grain from New Zealand to the United Kingdom :—

T

Wheat

..

...

...

Ori Osts

20. Other grain 18,00

...

QRAEDI

449,000

....

60,000 43,000!

552,000

Total

312

8.

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