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APPENDICES

Appendix IV— Contd

(Chapter 6: Industry and Trade)

Imports: Principal Sources

1963 total value $7,412 million

437

By country

% of total imports in 1963

By British Commonwealth and Continent

% of total

imports in

1963

China

20%

British Commonwealth

25%

Japan

United Kingdom

17%

Asia

50%

:

12%

Europe

USA

Thailand

11%

America

:

:

:

13%

12%

4%

1963

1962

% increase or decrease

$ million

$ million

Fruits and vegetables

China

Textile yarn, fabrics, and made-up articles

Live animals, chiefly for food

Cereals and cereal preparations

Dairy products

Non-metallic mineral manufactures

Sugar and sugar preparations

Fish and fish preparations ...

Animal and vegetable crude materials, inedible

Japan

Textile yarn, fabrics, and made-up articles

1,487

1,213

+ 23%

323

274

:

+ 18%

222

137

+ 62%

123

105

+ 18%

98

120

18%

89

64

+ 39%

70

49

+ 43%

69

60

+ 15%

64

50

+ 29%

59

58

+ 2%

:

1,239

1,097

+ 13%

446

423

+ 5%

Base metals

141

101

+ 41%

Electric machinery

120

96

+ 25%

Miscellaneous manufactured articles, not elsewhere

specified

62

49

+ 26%

...

Non-electric machinery

59

45

+ 33%

Explosives and miscellaneous chemical products Paper, paperboard and manufactures thereof Non-metallic mineral manufactures

United Kingdom

Electric machinery

Textile yarn, fabrics, and made-up articles

Transport equipment

Non-electric machinery

Base metals

USA

Tobacco and tobacco manufactures

Non-electric machinery

Textile fibres

+++

Silver, platinum, gems and jewellery

Explosives and miscellaneous chemical products

Textile yarn, fabrics, and made-up articles

Thailand

Cereals and cereal preparations

49

28

+ 77%

48

39

J

+ 23%

45

39

-

:..

:

:

:

::

:

:

:

+ 14%

860

760

+ 13%

168

105

+ 60%

108

90

+ 20%

104

90

+ 15%

93

85

+ 10%

60

66

9%

784

792

1%

79

71

+ 12%

78

74

+ 5%

63

71

11%

55

28

+100%

52

66

20%

48

40

+ 22%

266

303

187

199

12% 6%

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