A Comparison With Pre-War Imports Sir Robert Home, President of the Board of Trade, informed Mr. Romer that the value of imported German manufactured goods for the first 10 months of the follow-/ ing years was:—I912, £36,400,000; 1913, £41,000,000; 1919, £43,000; 1920, £17,000,000. For the years 1912 and 1913 the figures were estimates, and for 1919 they were only! from July 12. The imports at present did not approach what they' were before the war.
Sir Robert Home, replying to Mr. Romer, said he was aware that the silk trade was far from satisfactory, but the quantity of~. silk being imported from Germany could not be considered large compared with imports before the war.! The imports of silk goods Germany were but a small propor-! from} tion of the whole importation. The! importation was infinitesimal compared with the importation from France, and even the imports from America were very small compared with those from France and Switzerland.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.