Turning to India, Japan's trade with that country was fairly evenly balanced during the 1938 period, the exports having been Y.165.484,000, while the imports amounted to 'Y¥.153,301,000. Exports, which consist of silk, cotton, woollen and rayon textiles, cotton yarn and a varlet; of miscellaneous goods, fell siderably compared with the 1936 periods, the amounts having been Y.271424000 and Y.231,- however, fell off even more as they amounted to Y.440,- 334,000 in the 1937 period, and Y.345.- 746000 in 1936. In every year the bulk of the imports consists of raw cotton, and particularly in the 1937 period the import of that commodity was valued at ¥.361,173,000, which exceeded Y.302,015,000 worth imported from the' United States.
The feature of Japan's trade with the Union of South Africa was the startling decline in imports from that dominion to Y.8,666,000 in the 1938 period from the Y.88,540.000 in the corresponding period in 1937. In 1936 the figure was Y.14.679,000. Almost the whole of the 1937 amount was accounted for by wool which was valued ut Y.82,762,000. This was by far the greatest quantity of that
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