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| From Foreign Countries. |
From Self- Governing Colonies. |
From Other British Possessions. |
Total. | |
| £ | £ | £ | £ | |
| Class I.—Food, Drinks and Tobacco | 179.650,109 | 37,435,483 | 121,072,564 | 238,158,156 |
| Percentage | 75.4 | 15.7 | 8.9 | |
| Class II.—Raw Materials and articles mainly unmanufactured | 147,906,599 | 38,153,172 | 25,418,556 | 211,478,327 |
| Percentage | 70 | 18 | 12 | |
| Class III.—Articles wholly or mainly manufactured | 136,303,283 | 5,655,517 | 13,850,591 | 155,809,391 |
| Percentage | 87.5 | 3.8 | 8.7 | |
| Class IV.—Miscellaneous and unclassified | 1,863,269 | [179,782 | 399,575 | 2,442,626 |
| Percentage | 76.3 | 7.3 | 16.4 | |
| Total £ | 465,723,260 | 81,423,954 | 60,741,286 | 607,888,500 |
| 76.6 | 13.3 | 10.1 |
Total Imports.
We give also, for purposes of reference, the following analysis of our total imports for the five years ended 1905:—
| Foreign. | Self-Governing Colonies. |
Other British Possessions. |
Total. | |
| Year. | £ | £ | £ | £ |
| 1901 | 416,305,318 | 60,331,874 | 45,353,006 | 521,990,198 |
| 1902 | 421,474,817 | 59,879,316 | 47,037,141 | 528,391,274 |
| 1903 | 428,929,497 | 63,590,934 | 50,079,858 | 542,600,289 |
| 1904 | 431,020,222 | 64,905,604 | 55,112,802 | 551,038,628 |
| 1905 | 437,151,191 | 72,105,866 | 55,762,860 | 565,019,917 |
Results of Preference so far.
In the fifteen years from 1891 to 1905 (the last years shown in the Statistical Abstract), the total British imports and exports increased £128,000,000 as a whole. Of this total increase only £12,000,000 went in exports of British produce to Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa—or one-tenth of the whole. To Australia, taken
