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Taking the various countries individually, the order of importance is found to be the United States of America, Japan, Great Britajır, and Germany,, with respective aggregate totals for their imports and exports of $311 million, $221 million, $148 million and $132 million. In percentages the order in the case of imports if the United States of America, 19 per cent.;.Japan, 15.16 per cent; Germany, 11.22 per cent. and Great Britain, 10.67 per cent,; and, in the case of exports, the United States of America, 23.69 per cent.; Honggong 16.41 per cent.; Japan, 14.25 per cent.; and Great Britain, 8.59 per cent. The position of Hongkong as a port of transhipment has been referred to in. previous reports, and while the introduction of the consular invoice system eliminated to a very large extent the difficulty in determining the countries of origin in the case of imports, it is not possible to say in which direction or in what proportions the final distribution of exports to Hongkong is made. On the import side the general trend was downward, with the exception of Japan, Germany, Australia, and French Indo-China; while on the export side the only country to show an appreciable improvement was the United States of America, followed by France and Germany. Excluding Hongkong, eight countries took more than they gave to: China, the principal being France and the Netherlands, while those countries having the major excess of imports were Germany, Japan, French Indo-China, Netherlands India, Great Britain, the United States of America, and Australia, in that order. Considering the United States of America first, it is found that the total value of imports declined by $96.6 million, or, according to the percentage table, by 7.3 per cent. Imports of raw cotton declined by $26 million, wheat by $19.4 million, and leaf tobacco by $21.5 million On export account trade with the United States of America improved by $42 million, wood oil showing an improvement of $11.8 million, raw wilk (white, steam filature) $8.7 million,., sesamum, seed $7.7 million, animal products $6.5 million, and sheep's wool, $2.3 million. In the case of Japan imports improved by $13 million, or 2.9 per cent. according to the percentage column. Metals and ores were higher by $3.9 million, textile machinery and parts by $3.2 million, fishery and sea products by $2.2 million, and sugar by $2.9 million. There was little change on export account. Great Britain's imports declined by $26 million, or 1.4 per cent., wool and manu- factures fell $8.3 million, cotton goods $5 million, machinery and tools $4.2 million, metals and ores $3.7 million, and sundries $4.1 million. Imports of raw cotton from British India were $16 million, less, the export side Great Britain took $.8 million more of wood oil and $1.1 million more of antimony regulus, but exports of tea feel by $3.8 million. Germany's trade showed improvement both on import and export account. Imports improved by $10 million, or 2.2 per cent., and exports by $9,7 million, or 1.4 per cent. Machinery and parts, not otherwise recorded, were imported in greater quantity to the value of $5.4 million, rails improved by $3.2 million, common printing and newsprinting paper by $1.5 million, paper boards by $0.9 million, locomotives: and tenders by $0.9 million, railway and tramway materials, not otherwise recorded, by $0.7 million, electrical machinery by $0.6 million, and chemicals and pharmaceuticals by $1 million. Miscellaneous metal manufactures fell by $3.8 million. On Germany's export side the improvement shown is made up largely by higher exports as follows raw cotton, $2.7 million; fly cotton, $0.5 million; wood oil, $0.8 million; apricot seed, $0.7 million; groundnuts, shelled, $0.4 million; and antimony regulus, $0.5 million. Imports from France declined by 0.7 per cent.; exports improved, however by 11 per cent., due to increased exports of raw wilk (white, steam filature), which showed an improvement in value of $5:5 million. Imports from French, Indo-China were higher by 2.5 per cent, due to increased imports of rice and paddy valued at: $24 million more than those of the previous year. China's, wheat purchases, were valued at $35 million, of which Australia supplied $29 million worth, thus regaining her place as the chief supplier, no more wheat coming from America under the Wheat and Cotton Loan Agreement of 1933. The Nether- lands increased her takings of groundnuts, in shell and shelled, by nearly $2.4
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