Northern Ireland with the Irish Free State. From the same date, the direct foreign trade of the Irish Free State has been excluded from these Accounts. TRADE AND NAVIGATION. RETURN (in part) to an Order of the Honourable the House of Commons, dated 16 December, 1924;-for, ACCOUNTS RELATING TO TRADE AND NAVIGATION 13-V. OF THE UNITED KINGDOM, For Each Month during the Year 1925. (Sir Philip Cunliffe-Lister.) JUNE, 1925. Ordered, by The House of Commons, to be Printed, 19 December, 1924. LONDON: PUBLISHED BY HIS MAJESTY'S STATIONERY OFFICE. To be purchased directly from H.M. STATIONERY OFFICE at the following addresses or 120, George Street, Edinburgh; or through any Bookseller. 1925. Price 4s. 6d. Net. II.-EXPORTS OF PRODUCE AND MANUFACTURES OF The United KINGDOM III.-EXPORTS OF FOREIGN AND COLONIAL MERCHANDISE 78 182 221 222 NOTES. (1) Period covered by the Accounts.-Under the provisions of the Law, the particulars in respect of imported goods from which the official trade statistics are compiled are allowed to be given by importers or their agents at any time within 14 working days after the arrival of the ship. Further extension of time is given within which to make any necessary amendments. Such particulars may also be accepted before a ship actually arrives. In the case of exported goods the information is required to be supplied within six days after the final clearance outwards of the exporting ship. It follows that the statistics published for a month do not precisely represent the imports and exports which occurred in that period. In general, the figures show the trade, as declared by importers and exporters on the documents received in the Statistical Office, Customs and Excise, London, during a month, inclusive of all amendments relating to former months received in that Office during the month. (2) Classification of Articles.-The Tables are arranged throughout in accordance with the Import and Export List. The following classes of goods arriving in this country are not included in the import statistics: (a) Personal luggage, including parcels brought by passengers for private use, so long as such parcels do not contain dutiable goods. Dutiable goods contained in passengers' parcels are included in the statistics; (b) fresh fish and shell fish of British taking, landed from British ships arriving direct from the fishing grounds; (c) ships' stores, Military and Naval Stores on board Government vessels, bunkers (coal and oil), and ballast of no commercial value; (d) mats, sacks, cases, &c., used as packages of imported goods; (e) goods directly imported by Ambassadors and Ministers accredited to this Kingdom; (f) old vessels bought from foreign or colonial owners. The following classes of goods are not included in the export statistics : (a) personal luggage and effects; (b) ships' stores, Military and Naval Stores on board Government vessels, and ballast of no commercial value; (c) mats, sacks, cases, &c., used as the packages of exported goods; (d) old vessels sold to foreign or colonial owners. (3) Value. The value of the Imports represents the cost, insurance, and freight; or, when goods are consigned for sale, the latest sale value of such goods. The value of the Exports represents the cost and the charges of delivering the goods on board the ship, and is known as the "free on board" value. Both quantities and values are based on the declarations of importers and exporters as subsequently checked by the Customs officials. The values shown for Parcel Post in these Accounts are approximate only. a (4) Arrangement under Countries.-Imports are classified as received from the countries whence they were consigned to the United Kingdom. The countries whence goods are consigned are not in all cases the countries of actual origin of the goods, since goods produced in one country may be purchased by a firm in another country and thence despatched, after a longer or shorter interval, to the United Kingdom. In such a case the second country would be the country of consignment to which the goods would be credited in these Accounts. Exports are credited to the country to which the goods are consigned, i.e., the country of final destination as declared by exporters in their entries, whether that country possesses a sea-board or not. (5) Definition of Countries.-Throughout these Accounts the expression "United Kingdom" is, prior to 1 April, 1923, used to include Great Britain, Ireland, and the Isle of Man. From that date, the Irish Free State is excluded. In the tables of Imports and Exports British India includes the whole of India, except French and British East Indies includes British India, Straits Settlements British South Africa includes the Union of South Africa (i.e., Cape British West Africa includes Gambia, Sierra Leone, Gold Coast British East Africa includes Zanzibar and Pemba, Kenya, (6) Transit Trade.-Goods in transit, whether on through Bill of Lading or otherwise, are included in the tables of Imports and of Exports of Foreign and Colonial Merchandise, except such goods as are removed under bond from the importing to the exporting ship at the same or another Port. Accounts of these Transhipments under Bond are given in the "Annual Statement of Trade." (7) Exports.-Exports of Foreign and Colonial Merchandise include not only goods in transit through the United Kingdom (unless transhipped under bond), but also all goods which have not had their value sensibly modified by any process of refining or manufacture, although they have remained for some time in the United Kingdom. Thus goods which have been merely sorted, repacked, or blended, are treated as Foreign or Colonial, but goods which have undergone any |