Since Germany has concluded a trade agreement with this country we turn to the classified totals by countries for evidence of the advantages of such a pact, In exports from here Germany ranks after Japan. and China and just ahead of Korea, but, {in imports has less than one per cent. of the total trade, far below America which ranks fourth in the list, who in turn would be surpassed by the British Empire, if Hongkong and India were grouped with Great Britain, True Germany's totals for twelve months have increased more than 41 per cent. over her total for the year ending with July 1935, but imports from Germany in those totals showed a fall of over two millions in the year ending July 1936, a8 compared with the preceding year. It is interesting to note that figures given in Germany for the exports to Manchoukuo are much less than the figures given here for the imports from Germany.
Staggering figures under the heading "beans" produce but ttle thrill, though many would have to admit they did not know that black, yellow, green, white and other beans appear In the Usts. And had you heard that Manchoukuo shipped over 'a million dollars of paraffin wax a year? 'The steadily mounting item of coal is well known, but $15,000,000 worth of peanuts should not be over-Hooked, and if you had not heard of Perilla' seed the fact that last year $14,000,000 worth of that source of pure olive all" left these shores, last year, might be news.
Despite vast forests the value of lumber and timber shipped was only {$3,000,000 while $5,000,000 was the value put on the raw silk exported. Manchoukuo depends so_largely on Japan for textiles that"export of nearly four million dollars worth of cotton yarn in seven months is an unexpected item.
Comparing Manchoukuo's purchases from abroad for a year with those for the year just before, we find that the United States sends here more furs than all other countries though trade has fallen off nearly one-third. China leads in amount of leaf tobacco with about $3,000,000 a year. Hong. kong and Netherlands india showed comforting increases in their sugar sales. when Manchoukuo increased her demand for sweetening some 300 per cent, though Japan's increase under this heading eclipsed all others, Australian Flour Decrease Australia's flour shipments fell nearly $6,000,000 a year, but Japan's dropped from over $22,000,000 ubout 0% millions, Machinery and tools was one of the few items showed a large decrease though Germany increased her sales in these Nines over $1,000,000, while Great Britain's sales' remained unchanged and America lost more than half her trade in them. Germany and the United States both increased their sales of photographie materials and apparatus, though Japan, despite a small drop in her sales, still is credited with the largest share of the 1% million which Manchoukuo spends under this heading. An unexpected item is raw cotton to the value of over $8,500,000, (nearly 3 million me crease in a your) sold to British India. Under this item Japan took nothing.
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