Examining the customs returns a to which" countries have. imported the largest quantity of Manchuria products, we find that the principal entries Yor import of soy. beans fond other grain {rom Manchuria are Asiatic, namely—Japan, China and.S.R., the total amount of] their impares being -G.$12,200, Germany and France both increased their imports from Manchuria white other countries showed considerable decreases, The exports t0 the USSR. decreased by 7 per cent., to Japan by 40 per cent, to Great Britain by 89 per cent. t@ China by Hit per cent,, and to Holland by 78 per cent. wile the largest increases Were those of Germany by 443 per cent and. Korea by. 389 per cent, France also" showed an. in-Jerease of 141 per cent, but actually the increase. for the. whole of the above "countries does" not exceed e500. ovine goods Belgiam and Holland there has been very large fall as regards Euro-Dean and "American countries, but lowing to. Japanese relations "with Manchuria the imports from that feountry have increased very cousin fieratiy and.show a sum of G48, Seg "Cent" the Bose Prseitine! Sie iterant, sins monte of at yar -[poods which are exported from and Enported into' Manchuria the fact} that only three Manchurian pro-Jduets were exported for the first Jquarter of the present year in very Lirge quantity "immediately strikes the eye, while all others fell very! Jeonsiderably, that of bean cakes showing a decrease of fully 60 per feet., and. Koa-liang of 74 per cent.
leakes and bean oil must be put an Against the Tall iv exports of bean finer ease of soy beans, this also proving that the fundamental article fof export is that of beans and not the products of the oil mill industry.
former years beans were always the largest export, but by-products were exported also to a ery large extent. Now, however, foreign countries do not seem: encourage the import of by-products preferring to crush the beans them-elves, while the introduction of import duties on Manchurian pro-in' China has also had its "The fall in the export of kao-liang is explained to a certain extent by the boycott in China which has reduced the export of this article to that country by 97 per cent., as iso the introduction of import' duties in Germany which have hit the Manchurian export very hard. Japan is also giving much sport to home agriculture in tye, <Jecreasing the demand for Kaoliang both in Japan
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