The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORTED THE EGMONT SETTLER. WEDNESDAY, JULY 9, 1913. BRITISH GOODS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 54, 9 July 1913, Page 4

The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORTED THE EGMONT SETTLER. WEDNESDAY, JULY 9, 1913. BRITISH GOODS.

in the course of a special article on the Dominions as a market for Briusu

goods the "Financial >e\v s ' points out that an analysis of the e.\pcris of the United Kingdom for 1912 serves to emphasise the growing impoj tance of the Oversea Dominions in this regard. While it is true that the largest customer in that year for British goods was Germany (which has a population of, possibly, 6-1,000,000 people), taking £40,362,767 worth, yen 'the Australian Commonwealth, with 'a population of a little over 4,500,000, was a very good second, with imports 'if British goods to the tune of £34,H;10.701. But, the "News" says, exports, in themselves, are not necessarily proof of the industrial vitality of fiie land from which they slicing; the export of raw materials

- such as coal, for example—only means that one land is parting to another with so much capita] that cannol be replaced. N'ow, of Britain's shipments to Germany last year only ')'■>. I per cent, were wholly or mainly manufactured, whereas her exports to the Commonwealth included 90.1 per coiu. of goods in more or less advanced stngi's of manufacture. Canada in that year proved Britain's fifth host I customer, her imports from the Unit"d Kingdom reaching £23.531,311, which is a little below the amount readied by I'Yench exports to the Do-

minion, namely, £25,585,081. The French figures wore beaten by those: of the Tinted States, which reached] £30,065,80(3. There is, however, the fad to be considered, that whereas of the American exports to Canada in 1.912 but 72.4 per cent, were inanu-: factured or mainly manufactured, Britain's percentage in this respect was as high as 84.5. It is somewhat 'remrkabie that the like percentage of; France was but 04.4 per cent. Directly below Canada, among the list of customers, comes South Africa, whose imports from the United Kingdom reached £21,420,912, with a percentage of 50.3 of goods manufactured in whole or in part. The Dominion of New Zealand came ninth, with imports from the Motherland of £10,390,.'52! and a percentage of 88. These figures speak louder than words as co the value to England's manufacturers of the British oversea market, which, moreover, the "News" adds, is but in its infancy.