Manufacture of the United Kingdom, as are also all goods exported by Parcel Post. (8) Dutiable Goods.-The Import Accounts of Dutiable Goods are compiled from estimated quantities supplied to the Customs by Importers, and are subject to correction, both as to quantities and as to value, when an official account has been taken by the Department. In subsequent Monthly Accounts such corrections are embodied in the totals of Imports for the expired portion of the current year. The corresponding totals of Home Consumption Accounts include corrections arising from overentries. The quantities "entered for home consumption quantities delivered on payment of duty. In order to arrive at the quantities "retained for home consumption," the quantities exported on drawback, &c., are subsequently deducted. (9) Shipping.-The Tables of the movements of shipping in the Foreign Trade which are included in these Accounts relate only to entrances and clearances "with cargo," that is to say, they include only those vessels which arrive at a port or ports in the United Kingdom for the purpose of discharging cargo from abroad or which depart from a port or ports in the United Kingdom after loading there cargo for discharge at a destination abroad. If cargo is unloaded from, or loaded on, a vessel at more than one port in the United Kingdom without an intervening call at a port abroad, the vessel is recorded as "entered" at one only of such ports of discharge or as "cleared" at one only of such ports of loading. The country from which a vessel is recorded as entered" on an inward voyage is that of the most distant port at which cargo was loaded for discharge in the United Kingdom on that voyage, whether cargo from other countries is also loaded in the course of the voyage or not. Similarly a vessel is recorded as "cleared" to the country of the most distant port of discharge for cargo loaded on the vessel in the United Kingdom on that voyage. 66 Movements of vessels between ports in the United Kingdom for the purpose of completing the discharge of cargo from abroad, or of completing the loading of cargo for abroad, are not recorded as coastwise voyages. The record of movements of shipping in the Coasting Trade which are included in these Accounts relate only to the arrivals of vessels for the purpose of discharging cargo taken on board at another port, or other ports in the United Kingdom, and the departures of vessels after loading cargo for discharge at another port, or other ports, in the United Kingdom. Any voyage which includes a call at a port abroad is not deemed to be a coastwise voyage. In the coasting trade, vessels are "entered with "at every port of discharge and are "cleared with cargo" at every port of loading. cargo The arrivals of vessels at ports at which no cargo is discharged, and of departures of vessels from ports at which no cargo is loaded, are recorded as arrivals and departures "in ballast." Particulars of such arrivals and departures are excluded from the tables in these Accounts, but are published in the "Annual Statement of the Navigation and Shipping of the United Kingdom." (10) Annual Statements.-Full particulars of the Import and Export trade in each Article and with each Foreign country and British possession are contained in the "Annual Statement of the Trade of the United Kingdom," which is now available for 1923. Detailed information as to Shipping is published in the " Annual Statement of the Navigation and Shipping of the United Kingdom," which is now available for 1923. The Monthly Accounts of Trade and Navigation for December last contain preliminary information for the year 1924. SUMMARY TABLE showing the VALUE of IMPORTS, BRITISH EXPORTS, FOREIGN and COLONIAL EXPORTS, and TOTAL EXPORTS for each MONTH in the YEARS 1923 and 1924, and the completed MONTHS of the CURRENT YEAR, exclusive of BULLION and SPECIE. The monthly totals are revised when fall information as to dutiable imports is available, and corrections are made in the total for each year on the completion of the "Annual Statement of Trade." • Uncorrected figures. A 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. The tonnage of vessels entered from and cleared for the Irish Free State has been included in Table B as from 1st April, 1923 only. Particulars of such tonnage for the month and six months ended 30th June, 1925, and 1924, and for the month and three months ended 30th June, 1923, are given on pp. 288-241. 24,889 25,300,646 19,593 19,893,915 12,388 11,667,430 31,986 31,561,345 23,213 23,758,940 18,786 20,562,273 15,078 14,348,049 33,864 34,910,322 + 241,832 1,140,226 898,394 426,526 3,820,845 4,247,371 |