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The following teblo
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which is based, in the case of
the Netherlands, partly on unofficial data
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shows the quantitios
of coca leaves which were available for export in 1970, 1921, and 1922 and the quantitios of cocaine which they would yield. It has been assumed that the coca loaf has a row cocaine content of 0.8% of the original woight, and that rew cocaine yields
75% cocaino.
Java loaf.
Peruvian
loaf.
Deruvian raw cocaine.
Year.
kgs.
kgo.
kgs.
1920
1,707,438 1,072,673 1,295,503
453,067 87,949 124,357
1,637
1.57
952
Total potential quantity of eu- caine.
kg).
L
14,
190
7,061
9,093
In this table, however, the porcentages taken are probably incorrect; it appears from Annox 5 of the Minutes of the 5th Session of the Advisory Committee on Opium (C.418.M.184, 1923, page 154) that the quantity manufactured in Japan alone was as much as 2,524 kgs, in 1921 and 3,680 kgs. 1922.
The Feruvian cocs leaf was exported principally to tho United States, Great Britain and Iquique (Chili); the cocaine
No cocain wes exported to the United States, Germany and Japan. salts or other than raw cocaine are manufactured in Feru,
The coos loaf produced in the Dutch Indios was exported. principally to the Netherlanda,
in 1920
in 1921
in 1922
1,397,820 kgs.
615,282 905,290
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and to a 2008 degree to Japan, particularly during the lost fow
years.
in 1920
in 1921
in 1922
295,428 kga 452,634 378,307
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A large proportion of the coon leaf imported into the Rothor- lands is re-exported
Switzerland and America.
chiefly to Germany, but also to Franco,
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