COMMERCE
165
- Commerce.
The Straits ports are free from duties, and their trade, centred at Singapore, is a transit trade. Import duties are levied only on wine (1 dollar and 1^ dollars per gallon), malt liquors (24 cents per gallon), spirits (2 '40 dollars per gallon) and petroleum (5 cents per gallon). The chief exports comprise tin, sugar, pepper, nutmegs, mace, sago, tapioca, rice, buflalo hides and horns, rattans, gutta-percha, india-rubber, gambler, gum, copra, coffee, dyestuffs, tobacco, Para rubber, &c.
Imports and exports for five yearii (inclusive of treasure and inclusive of trade with the Federated Malay States). Since 1908 the trade of Labuan and Christmas Island is included : —
Imports
Exports
Yrs.
1907 1908 1909 1910 1911
From U.K.
From
Colonies,
&c.
From Foreign, Countries
£ £ £
5,767,400, 19,005,600 16,126,800
4,385,8001 17,530,700' 14,996,400
3,892,124' 17,472,618 15,193,740
4,568,615' 22,008,041 15.941,920
4,759,064j 24,802,434 16,875,851
Total
£ I £ ' £ ' £
40,899,800 8,823,000 9,672,800 17,122,800 35,618,600 36,912,900' 7,584,900 10,032,30014,296,500 31,945,400 30,558,4821 7,488,700 9,962,200 15, 353,800|32,804,700 42,521,576 10,190,123 10,681,821 10,950,197 37,822.141 46,437,349J10,022, 758 11,875,095 l7,9S9,293'39,S87;i46
These exi>orts do not include coal supplied to ships' bunkers, ships' stores, telegraph cables, &c., materials for building and repairing vessels, nor opium sent to Johore for con- sumption there piior to 1910.
Trade of the Straits Settlements during two years (inclusive of inter- colonial trade and treasure) : —
Imports
Exports
1910
1911
1910
1911
Singapore . Penang Malacca Labuan
£
31,872,0631
12,082,6421
776,399
167,696
£
33,272,4001
15,305,4041
904,353
146,869
£
27,408,6541
11.724,9981
787,243
141,995
£ 28,032,7741 13,819,2811 871,539 125,343
1 Imports into Cliristmas Island, 32,6S9/. in 1910, and 6,065/. in 1911; Exports from, 413,244/. in 1910, and 383,4387. in 1911 ; Imports into Bindings, 44,8347. in 1910, and 1,7857. in 1911 ; exports, 36,9707. in 1910, and 10,1527. in 1911, are included under Singa- pore and Penang respectively.
The most important imports and exports in 1911, exclusive of inter-settle- ment trade, were : —
1911
Imports
1911
Exports
£
£
Machinery, Hardware and
Tin
10,737,716
Ironware, <fec. .
853,059
Spices ....
1,600,088
Rice
5,572,472
Gambler ....
502,618
Opium ....
1,735,150
Gums ....
4.279,909
Fish
1,275,477
Tapioca and Sago .
1,007,649
Tobacco, Cigars, ^Cigarettes
1,063,959
Rattans ....
515,140
Sugar
831,230
Copra ....
1,984,111
Cotton Piece Goods .
1,903,471
Preserved Pineapples
288,806
Coal
851,717
Hides ....
445,264
Petroleum .
202,313
