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Imports of raw cotton into Great Britain and Ireland : —
Quantity, cwts. Value . £.
1907
15,621,197 46,911,291
1908
1909
14,178,555 I 14,647,186 39,286,262 41,174,869
1910
13,126,150
48,793,678
1911
10,823,878 1 48,847,303
1 Centals of 100 lbs.
The following statement shows the values of othei ini])ortant imports into the United Kingdom from the United States in the last 2 years : —
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1910
1911 —
1910
1911
Cattle .
Bacon
Hams
Fresh beef Lard Leather .
£.
2,578,285 4,453,293 2,329,52'i 1,070,299 4,201,013 4,057,282
£ 3,056,499 Machinery 5,067,533 Copper . 2,712,287 Paraffin wax .
397,601 Petroleum 4,014,648 Tobacco . 3,828,990 Fish
£
2.287,702 2,568,235 871,763 3,745,903 2,815,028 1,021 358
£ 2,894,271 3,027,039
617,816 3,370,982 3,278,383
702,786
Leading articles exported from the United Kingdom to the United States : —
Year
Iron
Cotton Goods
Linen Goods
Woollen Goods
1907 1908 1909 1910 1911
£
4,149,918 1,957,044 2,572,904 3,177,708 1,787,069
£ 4,421,800 2,831,819 4,096,702 3,587,623 3,799,707
£ 3,876,824 2,806,296 4.203,037 4, 336, 786 3,862,808
£
1,556,669 1,024,338 1,601,293 1,776.049 1,285,892
The total trade of the United States (imports and exports of merchandise) is divided as follows in 1911-12 among the various coasts and frontiers in the States in percentage of the total: — Atlantic Coast, 65*60; Gulf Coast, 14-42; Mexican Border Ports, 1-29; Pacific Coast, 6*20; North Boundary, 11-93; Interior Ports, -56.
The percentage of the leading ports was as follows : — New York, 46*50 ; Boston, 5*16; Philadelphia.. 3-99; Baltimore, 3*08; Galveston, 5*77; New Orlean.s, 5-81; San Francisco, 2-81.
Shipping and Navigation.
The foreign commerce of the United States is at present largely carried on in foreign bottoms. The shipping belonging to the United States was classed as follows for 1912 : — Sailing vessels (exclusive of canal boats and barges), 7,582 of 1,538,847 tons; steam vessels, 14,265 of 5,179,858 tons; total (including canal boats and barges), 26,528 vessels of 7,714,183 tons.
Of vessels registered as engaged in the foreign trade and the whale fisheries, the aggregate was in 1912, 932,101 tons, .showing an increase of 59,430 tons on 1911 ; while of vessels engaged in the coasting trade and the cod and mackerel fisheries the totaL in 1912 was 6,782,682 tons, or 16,563 tons more than in the preceding year.
The shipping was distributed thus (June 30, 1912) : —
