iyTRODUCTORT TABLES

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IV.-WORLD'S SUPPLY OF RAW SILK.

The appended table of statistics, which hare been published by the Lyoas Silk Merchant*' Union, ihow the estimated world's supply of raw silk in 1917, 1918, and 1919 :—

Countries

Western Europe: France Italy

. Austria . Hungary

Total

Levant and Central Asia

Far East :

China (Shanghai)

China (Canton)

Japan

India

Indo-China

Total . Grand total

1917

Pounds

187,400 143.300

191S

Ponnda 529,100

165,400

154 900 166,390

143,300 ' 110,200

7,154,000 6,1*66,700 i,'.'16,3O0 ■i.70O

10,097,200

6,1G9,$00

31.0-0,400

231,500

11,000 ;

11,000

5,070.000 Sx,lS7

11.000

49,559,900 1

46.?3S,600 '

46,087,600

59,006,700 56,198,100 6.

V.— WORLD'S SUGAR STATISTICS.

THREE YEARS' COMPARATIVE P10CRES.

Preliminary figures (in long tons) for the 1920-21 crop in the various rogar-prodi:cir>g countries of the world and final estimates for the two preceding campaigns appear below :

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United States:—

Louisiana

1'orto Rico

Hawaiian Islands

West Indies— Virgin Islands Cuba ....

British West Indies: Trinidad Barba.ii is Jamaica Antigua Kitts Other British West Indies

French West Indies : —

Martinique

Guadeloupe Santo Domingo Haiti Mexico

Central America: — Guatemala Other Central America

1*19 -20

Tons

n «■ i

MM I

53*.913 9,000

-

47.S50

43,000 12.S41 10,901 7,580

10.027 26,604 | 15J.309 3,300 70,000

13,441 14,240

Tons 108,035

C3t.ni

ioi.iou 12,400

z. ::■;■ ::

58,416 , 50,000 46,875 15,540 10,036 5,651 ;

2?,000 '

njm

5,000

15,000 20,000

1920-21

Tons 175.000 435.000 525.000 5,000 4,000,000

60,000 50,000 45,000 13,500 8,000 10,000

20,000 15,000

189,000 5,000

100,000

15,000

20,000