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| Amount: | Percentage of
German Imports, 1913 | Million | Total Imports
| Dollars |
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III. Manufactures:-- | |
Cotton yarn and thread and | |
cotton goods | 47.05 | 1.8
Woolen yarn and woolen | |
goods | 37.85 | 1.4
Machinery | 20.10 | 0.7
+---------+---------------
| 105.00 | 3.9
+---------+---------------
IV. Unenumerated | 876.40 | 32.5
+---------+---------------
Total |2,692.60 | 100.0
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These tables show that the most important exports consisted of:--

(1) Iron goods, including tin plates (13.2 per cent),
(2) Machinery, etc. (7.5 per cent),
(3) Coal, coke, and briquettes (7 per cent),
(4) Woolen goods, including raw and combed wool (5.9 per
cent), and
(5) Cotton goods, including cotton yarn and thread and raw
cotton (5.6 per cent),

these five classes between them accounting for 39.2 per cent. of the
total exports. It will be observed that all these goods are of a kind in
which before the war competition between Germany and the United Kingdom
was very severe. If, therefore, the volume of such exports to overseas
or European destinations is very largely increased the effect upon
British export trade must be correspondingly serious. As regards two of
the categories, namely, cotton and woolen goods, the increase of an
export trade is dependent upon an increase of the import of the raw
material, since Germany produces no cotton and practically no wool.
These trades are therefore incapable of expansion unless Germany is
given facilities for securing these raw materials (which can only be at
the expense of the Allies) in excess of the pre-war standard of
consumption, and even then the effective increase is not the gross value
of the exports, but only t