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Freemen of the City of London the import of Java sugar into India has almost ceased to exist China Formerly Big Market China used to be an_ important market for Burma rice. In' the five years before the war she took an average of 300000 tons. For the seven years 1922-28 the average wás only 145,000 tons. For the next four years it rose to 350,000 tons, owing to bad harvests in China, but in 1933-34 the figure was only 220,000 and in 1934-35 170,000, tons and in 1935-36 s was sent to China s variations are due to several causes; fluctuation in rates of exchange has probably had much effect in recent years, but the most important cause is probabl; dition of the local crops i Agricultural statistics of CI so unreliable and disasters of the first magnitude may come with so little warning that it is quite impossible to know from year to year how much imported rice China is likely to need, and Burma cannot look upon her as a stable market.
Also Indo-China and Siam, particularly the former, have great advantage in freights over Burma, and it is natural that they should be China's first sources of supply. At the same time, a market which is capable of taking up to 500,000 tons in years of famine, apd which seldom takes less than 150,000 tons cannot
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