RETURN (in part) to an Order of the Honourable The House of Commous, dated 4 February 1915;-for

TRADE

ACCOUNTS

RELATING TO

AND NAVIGATION

OF THE

UNITED KINGDOM,

For Each Month during the Year 1915.
(Mr. Runciman.)

AUGUST 1915.

The Accounts of goods imported do not include certain goods which, at the time of importation, were the property of His Majesty's Government or the Governments of the Allies. The Accounts of goods exported include goods bought in the United Kingdom by, or on behalf of, the Governments of the Allies, but do not include goods taken from British Government Stores and Depôts, or goods bought by His Majesty's Government and shipped on Government vessels.

Full particulars of the Import and Export trade in each Article and with each Foreign country and British possession, for a period of five years, are contained in the "Annual Statement of the Trade of the United Kingdom." Detailed information as to Shipping is published in the "Annual Statement of the Navigation and Shipping of the United Kingdom." The 1914 issue of the first volume of the "Annual Statement of Trade" has been published; the second volume and the "Annual Statement of the Navigation aud Shipping of the United Kingdom" will be ready shortly.

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1915.

ii. EXPORTS of PRODUCE and MANUFACTURES of the UNITED

NOTES.

(1) In these Accounts, Imports for the current and the two previous years are classified as received from the countries whence they were consigned to the United Kingdom; not, as in the Accounts issued for periods prior to January 1909, as received from the countries whence they were shipped direct to the United Kingdom. The countries whence gools 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 for the current and the two previous years are credited to the country of final destination as declared by exporters in their entries, whether that country possesses a sea-board or not. In the Accounts issued for periods prior to January 1909, exports destined for countries which possess no sea-board, such as Switzerland and the Transvaal, were credited to the country in which the port of discharge was situated.

(2) Throughout these Accounts the expression United Kingdom is used to include Great Britain, Ireland, and the Isle of Man.

(3) In the tables of Imports and Exports the term :

British India includes the whole of India, except French and Portuguese
Possessions.

British East Indies includes British India, Straits Settlements (with the
Federated Malay States and Labuan) and Ceylon.

British South Africa includes the Union of South Africa (i.e., Cape of Good
Hope, Natal, Orange Free State, and Transvaal), and Rhodesia, Bechuanaland
Protectorate, Basutoland, and Swaziland.

Foreign West Africa includes German, French, Portuguese and Spanish
Possessions and Belgian Congo and Liberia.

Foreign East Africa includes German, French, Portuguese, and Italian
Possessions.

British West Africa includes Gambia, Sierra Leone, Gold Coast, and
Nigeria.

British East Africa includes Zanzibar and Pemba, East Africa Protectorate,
Uganda Protectorate, and Nyasaland Protectorate.

(4) 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 Pond are given in Volume II. of the Annual Statement of Trade.

SUMMARY

TABLE showing the VALUE of IMPORTS, BRITISH EXPORTS, FOREIGN and COLONIAL EXPORTS, and TOTAL EXPORTS for each MONTH in the Two PREVIOUS YEARS, and the completed MONTHS of the CURrent YEAR.

The values of the Imports represent the cost, insurance and freight; or, when goods are consigned for sale, the latest sale value of such goods.

The values of the Exports represent the cost and the charges of delivering the goods on board the ship, and are