§ 73. Sir JOHN BARRANasked the President of the Board of Trade if he can state the total amount of imports into and exports from the German Empire in the last completed financial year, including both sea-borne and land-borne goods, and what proportion of the totals are sea-borne goods; and if he will give the corresponding figures for the same period for Great Britain?
Mr. ROBERTSONThe value of the imports into Germany for consumption in 1911 was £477,200,000, and the value of the exports of domestic produce £398,600,000. No official information is available with regard to the relative amounts imported by sea and land respectively, but about 79 per cent, of the imports and 64 per cent, of the exports were received from or sent to countries with which trade is said to be carried on wholly or mainly by sea. In the same year the net imports into the United Kingdom (deducting re-exports) were of a declared value of £577,400,000, and the exports of the produce and manufactures of the United Kingdom of a declared value of £454,100,000.