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Tare XXVII 
Commodity Balance of Trade, 1900-13 
(In Millions of Pounds Sterling) 
DEBITS. 
Year. 
1901 
1902 
1903 
1904 
1905 
1906 
1907 
1908 
1909 
1910 
1911 
1912 
1913 
Imports 
for con- 
suUMDII0MN. 
38-577 
36-978 
34-374 
33-856 
34-861 
10-678 
47-100 
45-272 
46-520 
54-599 
60-380 
71-054 
792-466 
Imports 
for re-ex- 
port. 
1-944 
2-646 
2-601 
2-385 
2.713 
3-437 
3-007 
2-192 
2-475 
2-655 
3-277 
3-134 
3-434 
¥ 
Imports 
less exports 
of ships. 
nr 
0-500 
0-142 | 
0-223 
0-186 
0-315 
0-591 
0-618 
0-619 
0-718 
0-640 
0-322 
1-181 
1.944 
Unrecorded 
imports. 
IV 
2-121 
1-547 
1-024 
Total. 
I+1IT+4 
IvV—-JIr 
39-254 
36-021 
33-030 
31-457 
32-463 
37-832 
44-711 
43-699 
44-763 
52-544 
57-925 
69-101 
70-276 
OREDITS 
Year. 
1901 
1902 
1903 
1904 
1805 
1906 
1907 
1908 
1909 
1910 
1911 
1912 
1913 
Recorded 
exports 
less 59 
VI 
47-211 
41-718 
45-838 
54-611 
53-999 
66-261 
69-183 
61-096 
62-058 
70-766 
76-008 
75-141 
74.576 
Re-exmorts. 
VII 
1-944 
2-646 
2-591 
2-385 
2-713 
3-437 
3-007 
2-192 
2-475 
2-655 
3-277 
3-134 
2.434 
Ships’ 
stores. 
VIII 
0-876 
0-999 
1-196 
1-072 
1-080 
1-238 
1-432 
1-450 
Total. 
PII4-FX 
VELL 
Excess of 
Credits. 
IX X 
46-667 7-413 
39-072 3-051 
43-247 10-217 
52-226 20-769 
51-286 18-823 
63-690 25-868 
87-175 22-464 
60-100 16-401 
60-655 15-892 
69-191 16-647 
73-969 16-034 
73-439 | 4-338 
72.601 92:325 
I and II. Including Gold and Specie. From Quarterly Summary of Australian 
Statistics, Bulletin No. 85, 1921. 
1V. Ibid. Estimated understatement due to failure to record as imports goods 
received in one State for transhipment to another State. 
Il. From Commonwealth Year Books and Annual Reports of the Board of Trade. 
IX. Ibid. For years 1901-5 estimated by writer on basis of outward tonnage 
and total devartures from Commonwealth. 
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