November show that exports, generally speaking, still show a heavy decline, although imports are almost normal again, and in some cases, auch as t sugar, are increas: ing. It will be noticed that exports of cotton piece-goods to China and Hongkong wore valued at only £918,569 last month, as against £1,014,878 in November, 1913. That figure is also £62,381 less than in October. The falling off is similar, though not so marked, in the case of the remaining markets in the Far East. The value of linen piece-pods consigned to Japan and the Dutch East Indies was roughly £1,000 less in each instance last month than in the same month of 1913. The same remark applies, to 'a greater or lesser extent, in the case of woollen and worsted tissues to China and Japan. More ship, bridge, and boiler plates were sent to Japan last month than in Novem: ber, 1913, although for the first ten months of the year the figure is only 4,013 tons, against 18,514 tons in 1913. The quantity of black sheets under ith in., of tubes, pipes, and fittings. and tinned plates and sheets
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