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IMPORTS AND EXPORTS REVIEW

Below are briefly reviewed some of the more important movements of import and export commodities during the years 1933 and 1932.

ANIMALS (LIVE)

Imports totalled $11.4 millions in 1933, as compared with $12.6 millions in 1932, and exports $314,000 as compared with $433.000.

Cattle imports amounted to 52,149 head ($3.4 millions) as compared with 52,949 head ($3.8 millions); Kwong Chow Wan and South China being the chief sources of supply.

Pig imports fell from 318,641 head ($8.4 millions) to 307,792 head ($7.7 millions), and Sheep from 18,405 head ($373,000) to 13,930 head ($279,000).

BUILDING MATERIALS

Imports totalled $9.4 millions as compared with $12.9 millions, and exports $4.8 millions as compared with $8.7 millions.

Building Bricks imports fell from 28.8 million pieces ($472,000) to 14.5 million pieces ($215,000), while exports fell from 2.8 millior. pieces ($99,000) to 1.3 million pieces ($54,000).

Imports of Cement remained approximately the saine at 2.1 million piculs, but values decreased from $2.4 millions to $1.6 millions, mainly on account of increased imports from Japan at lower average prices. In 1932 imports from Japan amounted to 1.3 million piculs ($894:000), increasing to 1.9 million piculs ($1.1 millions) in 1933: the quota from French Indo-China falling from 724,000 piculs ($1.2 millions) to 175,000 piculs ($269,000). Exports decreased from 2.1 million piculs ($3.9 millions) to 939,000 piculs ($1.5 millions), South China taking only one-third of the quantity exported to that district in the previous year.

Imports of Glass, Sheet and Pane, increased slightly to 7.2 million square feet ($736,000), exports declining a fraction to 6.3 million square feet ($635,000). Belgian imports fell from 5.8 million square feet to 4.4 million square fect, while German products increased from 643,000 square feet to 1.1 million square feet. As in previous years South China accounted for the bulk of the exports, taking 5.3 million square feet.

Plate Glass imports fell from 1.3 million square feet ($549,000) to 89,000 square feet ($119,000), the United Kingdom being the chief source of supply. Exports declined from 1.1 million square feet ($296,000) to 9,400 square feet ($15,000): South China taking only 5,000 square feet as compared with 1.0 million square feet.

Imports of both Hardwoods and Softwoods declined, the former from 2.6 million cubic feet ($3.4 millions) to 2.4 million cubic feet ($3.0 millions), and the latter from 2.9 million cubic feet ($2.4 millions) to 1.8 million cubic feet ($1.2 millions).

CHEMICALS AND DRUGS

Imports totalled $6.7 millions as compared with $6.6 millions, and exports $3.8 millions as compared with $4.1 millions

Imports of Acids of all kinds amounted to 37.000 piculs ($387,000) as compared with 29,000 piculs ($369,000). There was a marked increase in imports of Pharmaceutical Products which amounted to $1.9 millions as compared with $1.3 millions.

CHINESE MEDICINES

Imports totalled $17.9 millions as compared with $19.1 millions, and exports $12.2 millions as compared with $13.6 millions: unenumerated items accounted for $12.4 millions of the imports, and $10.1 millions of the exports.

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