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$6.5 million under raw cotton being particularly noticeable. Under animals and animal products most headings have held their place, there being increases of $1 million under bristles and of $1.8 million under eggs and egg products. The improved export of wood oil is noteworthy, amounting in value of $15.4 million, while the improvement under oils (others) is over $10 million. Under seeds there was a marked advance of $21 million, the export of groundnuts, shelled, being valued at $6.4 million and sesamum seed at $11.6 million more than the previous year, the former going in increases quantities to the Nether- lands, France, Italy, and Germany and the latter to the United States of America, Italy, and Japan. There is an increase of $12.8 million under ores, metals, and metallic products, $6 million of which appears for tin and $3.8 million under antiniony. Other ores and metals improved by nearly $2.5 million and wolfram ore by $380,000. Exports of cotton yarn fell by $12 million.
SHIPPING AND FREIGHT IN 1935.
According to the figures published by the League of Nations, the world total of mercantile tonnage under construction at the close of 1935 was 1,543,000 tons as compared with 1,252,000 tons in 1934 and 757,000 tons in the year 1933, while mercantile shipping launched totalled 1,302,000 tons as against 967,000 and 489,000 tons during 1934 and 1933 respectively. Available world tonnage for the annual period ending June 1933 was 67,920,000 tons, of which 11,748,000 tons were laid up, leaving 56,172,000 tons of actual working shipping as compared with available tonnage of 64,886,000, of which only 5,600,000 tons was laid up, or total working tonnage for the similar period ending June 1935 of 59,286,000 tons, an increase of shipping at present in commission of 3.1 million tons. There was a general improvement in freight rates of from 8 to over 10 per cent. as the year advanced.
The total tonnage entered at the 15 leading ports of the world during 1934, the last year for which comprehensive figures are available, is given in the following table:-
New York London
...
Kobe ... Rotterdain Shanghai
Tons. 34,948,123 29,373,605
Osaka
26.832,622
20,962,096
19,935,047
19,846,017†
Philadelphia...
Antwerp Liverpool...
Marseilles San Francisco Singapore
Tons. 17,928,027
17,000,013
...
16,839,835
16,737,928 16,636,723
...
...
16,296,314, 14,922,617.
...
14,582,536
(1935)
Hongkong
Hamburg....
... 18,611,437
18,432, 459
Los Angeles
...
* Including 2,106,943 steamer tonnage entered from inland places. † Including 2,428,477 steamer tonnage entered from inland places.
In regard to China shipping, reference to the. Shipping tables appearing with this volume will show that the total of entrances and clearances at Chinese ports amounted to 144 million tons as compared with 140.5 million tons in the preceding year. The order of importance by flags was: British shipping, 60.1 million tons; Chinese shipping; 41.9 million; Japanese shipping, 2.7 million; and Netherlands shipping, 2.4 million tons. Of the total of 144 million tons of shipping entered and cleared,, 48,1 million tons were entered from and cleared to foreign ports as against: 44.9 million during 1934, while 95.9 million tons as compared with 95,6 million for 1934 were entered and cleared coastwise. These figures do not include the tonnage of vessels plying under Inland Waters Steam Navigation Regulations. As regard shipping with abroad, the leading ports in China were; Shanghai, with 35 per cent. of the total tonnage, Canton, with 13.84 per cent.; Swatow, with 8.67 per cent.; Tsingtao (Kiaochow), with 7.49 per cent. Amoy, with 4.89 per cent,; Tientsin, with 4.51 per cent., and
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