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CHINA

were French Indo-China with $42 million, the Straits Settlements and Feder- ated Malay States with $22 million, France with $21 million, Macao with $14 million, Great Britain with $13 million, the United States of America with $12 million, and the Philippine Islands with $11 million.

IMPORTS

As already pointed out, the net value of the import trade in standard dollars for the year 1939 was $1,334 million as compared with $886 million for 1938, or an increase of 50 per cent. The following table shows the net imports from abroad for the years 1937, 1938, and 1939, arranged according to the main groupings in the "Monthly Returns of the Foreign Trade of China" and ac- cording to the order of importance of these groupings during the year under review:

NET IMPORTS FROM ABROAD, 1937-39

1937.

1938.

1939.

St. $

St. $

St. $

Cereals and Flour

58,555,602

130,004,931

223,657,614

Cotton and Manufactures thereof

37,562,942

42,876,801

199,973,528

Candles, Soap, Oils, Fats, Waxes, Gums

and Resins

118,556,281

91,291,244

109,274,544

Chemicals and Pharmaceuticals

61,282,114

57,117,109

75,939,662

Metals and Ores

131,637,637

65,117,767

73,067,401

Machinery and Tools

65,013,106

Books, Maps, Paper and Wood Pulp..

65,302,004

56,398,946 61,128,206 45,277,882 60,762,982

Sugar

22,030,645

19,795,606

52,643,569

Vehicles and Vessels

....

42,102,103

33,838,231

45,780,095

Dyes, Pigments, Paints and Varnishes

37,105,358

31,145,583 44,869,634

Tobacco

21,874,283

22,602,291 36,629,094

Timber

23,238,569

22,344,073

34,443,380

Miscellaneous Metal Manufactures

41,437,886 29,703,497

33,434,51***

Fruits, Sceds and Vegetables

5,605,475

13,857,842

27,016,648

Ccal, Fuel, Pitch and Tar

5,995,119 21,501,639

26,384,952

Wool and Manufactures thereof

35,604,359

18,889,161

26,170,452

Silk (including Artificial Silk) and Manu-

factures thereof

Flax, Ramie, Hemp, Jute and Manufac-

13,575,678 17,832,440

25,862,418

tures thereof

20,521,536

14,622,862

20,636,686

Animal Products,

Canned Goods and

Groceries

8,399,441

10,133,067

17,019,998

Fishery and Sea Products

13,258,259

9,940,610 16,975,260

Medicinal Substances and Spices Wood, Bamboos, Rattans, Coir, Straw and

Manufactures thereof

Hides, Leather and Other Animal Substances Wines, Beer, Spirits, Table Waters, etc. Stone, Earth and Manufactures thereof. Chinaware, Enamelledware, Glass, etc. General Sundry List

TOTAL...

St. $ 953,386,007 886,199,569 1,333,653,896

The above table, however, and those immediately following, when read in conjunction with the fuller statistics, will serve to give a general idea of the trend and value of China's import trade during the year under review as compared with the years 1937 and 1938. As in 1938, the cereals and flour group took the foremost position, imports of wheat and wheat flour, largely from Australia and the United States of America, increasing in value by $35.6 mil-

7,235,235

6,830,345

14,390,896

6,928,245

!

6,605,920

11,739,473

4,453,829

4,463,538

7,314,789

....

1,220,535

2,840,237

6,138,312

3,437,917

3,986,228

5,758.678

5,527,089

3,793,739

5,200,733

95,924,760

103,387,980

71,440,375

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