§ Mr. LEACHasked the Under-Secretary of State for India what number of bales of Indian-grown cotton Japan has used in 1912; and what increase there was over the year 1911?
Mr. BAKERFigures for the calendar year 1912 will not be available for some time. According to the Japanese official trade returns, the imports of raw cotton into Japan from British India during each of the three years ended August, 1910, 1911, and 1912, respectively, expressed in bales of 400lb. amounted to 987,168 bales in 1909–10; 847,103 bales in 1910–11; and 1,104,954 bales in 1911–12. The great bulk of the Indian cotton imported into Japan reaches the latter country in the period January-August of each year.