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RAILWAY MATERIALS,

Total imports amounted to $528,000 as compared with $289,000. and exports $437,000 as compared with $443.000,

Iron and Steel Rails increased from $12.0.0 to $190,000 and Wood Sleepers from 32,811 picces to 52,295 pieces.

TOBACCO,

Total imports amounted to $9.5 millions as compared with $12.9 millions, and exp $7.9 millions as compared with $10.1 millions.

Summarized imports were:—

Cigars

Cigarettes

Snuff

Tobacco (Foreign)

Tobacco (Native)..

Tobacco (Raw)..

Tobacco (Stalk)

1931

1932

$

*

284,000

170,000

5,425,000

5.213,000

5.125

555,000

113,654

3.182.000

1,369,000

3,401,757

2,609,000

1,998

TREASURE.

Total imports amounted to $85.3 millions as compared with $66.1 millions and exports to $140.0 millions as compared with $121.8 millions, both imports and exports being affected by heavy transfers of silver subsidiary coin from Canton to Shanghai.

VEHICLES.

Total imports amounted to $4.6 millions as compared with $4.0 millions, and exports to $1.5 millions as compared with $2.2 millions.

Imports of Motor Cars increased from 498 ($1.5 millions) to 777 ($1.9 millions), the British share of the trade increasing from 63 ($164,000) to 256 ($576,000), while the U.S.A. figure fell from 376 ($1.2 millions) to 313 ($0.9 million). German and Italian imports in- creased.

U. S. A. import of Motor Lorries (Chassis) fell from 138 ($356,000) to 105 ($256,000), imports from U. K. increasing from 5 ($24,000) to 25 ($80,000).

WEARING APPAREL.

Total imports amounted to $4.4 millions as compared with $6.3 millions, and exports $12.8 millions as compared with $13.7 millions.

Imports of Boots and Shoes of all descriptions fell from $2,366,000 to $942,000; the Japanese share of this trade falling from $1,366,000 to $17,000.

Imported Hats and Caps remained approximately the same at $1.2 millions, but the Japanese figure fell from $236,000 to $61,000; the German share increasing from $7,000 to $26,000, and the Italian share from $649,000 to $845,000.

Exports of Cotton Hosiery fell from $2.4 millions to $1.7 millions; exports to India fall- ing from $549,000 to $310,000; Middle China from $290,000 to $228,000; and French Indo- China $118,000 to $44,000,

SUNDRIES.

Total imports amounted to $71.5 millions as compared with $90.3 millions, and exports $60.2 millions as compared with $74.8 millions,