OUR TRADE TO NEUTRAL MARKETS
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the question is entirely one of the development of the Transvaal. Our commerce towards both markets ought to be reckoned with Imperial trade, augmenting by another £10,000,000 our total exports to Imperial markets.
Examining, then, the genuinely foreign markets of the second group, let us now secure the plainest view of the distribution of our trade to neutral countries by looking at the ensuing table:
| All Exports. | Coal and Ships. | Other Exports. | ||
| Million £. | Million £. | Million £. | ||
| 1. | Scandinavia | 11·6 | 4·1 | 7·5 |
| 2. | Near East, etc.: | |||
| Turkish Empire | 6·2 | 0·3 | 5·9 | |
| Morocco, Arabia and Persia | 1·0 | … | 1·0 | |
| Smaller Balkan States | 2·8 | 0·6 | 2·2 | |
| Total | 10·0 | 0·9 | 9·1 | |
| 3. | Far East: | |||
| Japan | 6·5 | 1·3 | 5·2 | |
| China | 7·0 | 0·1 | 6·9 | |
| Siam | 0·3 | … | 0·3 | |
| Dutch East Indies | 2·8 | … | 2·8 | |
| Philippine Islands | 1·0 | … | 1·0 | |
| Total | 17·6 | 1·4 | 16·2 | |
| 4. | South and Central America (except Argentina) | 17·0 | 1·9 | 15·1 |
| 5. | Argentina | 7·7 | 0·8 | 6·9 |
| 6. | French, German, Spanish, and Portuguese Colonies and Congo | 4·4 | 1·4 | 3·0 |
