No. 25-Continued. TRADE WITH PRINCIPAL COUNTRIES. GOLD COAST-IMPORTS. TOTAL VALUE of IMPORTS (including BULLION and SPECIE) TOTAL VALUE of EXPORTS of DOMESTIC and OTHER PRODUCE (including BULLION and SPECIE) from the GOLD COAST, distinguishing PRINCIPAL COUNTRIES. (a) For 1894, and subsequent years, the value of the Imports includes the charges for freight, &c. In previous years the value was that of the goods at the Port of Shipment. The percentages of such charges to the total value of Imports from the United Kingdom, British Possessions, and Foreign Countries are as follows: 213,907 137 89,526 126,287 13,212 11,446 22,708 28,300 1,104 190,009 Foreign Countries: 3,567 90,261 5,546 Holland. France. Africa (Foreign). 23,526 United States. 1 No. 25-Continued. TRADE WITH PRINCIPAL COUNTRIES. SIERRA LEONE-IMPORTS. TOTAL VALUE of IMPORTS (including BULLION and SPECIE) TOTAL VALUE of EXPORTS of DOMESTIC and OTHER PRODUCE (including BULLION (a) Imports for Consumption for 1889 and 1890. (b) Exclusive of British Possessions. It is stated in the original returns that "vessels which had called (in the case of those arriving in the Colony), or which intended to call (in the case of those leaving the Colony), at more ports than one on the West Coast of Africa, are said to have come from, or to have left for the Windward Coast' when the ports are to the th, or the 'Leeward Coast' when the ports are to the south of Sierra Leone." No. 25-Continued. TRADE WITH PRINCIPAL COUNTRIES. DOMINION OF CANADA-IMPORTS for CONSUMPTION. (a) TOTAL VALUE of IMPORTS for CONSUMPTION (including BULLION and SPECIE) into For rate of conversion of dollars into £ sterling, see Table No. 2, p. 5. NOTE. Under the provisions of the Reciprocal Tariff which came into force on 23rd April, 1897, goods (except alcohol liquors, tobacco and sugar), the produce or manufacture of the United Kingdom and certain British Colonies and Foreig Countries, when imported direct, were entitled to a reduction of th of the duty to 30th June, 1898, and th of the duty 31st July 1898. |