The Contrast between Asia and Australia 321

and write after each product your estimate of how much is consumed
locally and how much’ is available for export. Your table may begin
hike this:

ProbucCT

Tea
Rice
Jute

.
.
-

Tin

PERCENTAGE Pro-DUCED
 IN ASIA

LocaL
CONSUMPTION

Large
Very large
Moderate

Very slight

AMOUNT AVAILABLE
For EXPORT

Much
Some
Much, because the commerce
 and industry of
Asia are relatively inactive.

Practically all, because
Asia does little manufacturing
 of iron goods.

33. Divide the products of your list into the following classes, and decide
which classes contain the most products available for export: (a) foods.
(b) fibers, (c) metals, (d) fuels, (e) other raw materials.
Compare your list with Table IV (page 308) to see which of these
products the United States imports in appreciable amounts.
The products that Asia exports. The chief exports from Asiatic
countries and their approximate annual values are as follows:

Pronuier

Raw Rubber
Raw ("~*ton
Raw Silk

+

Manufactured Jute .
Vlanufactured Cotton
 ce.
Oil (chiefly coconu
Tea

VaLuE
(Approximate)

Over
3250,000,000
each

200,000,000
to
250,000,000
each

Probnrica

Jute . . . . .
I'm . . . . .
Sugar . . . . .
Rice . . . . .
ides and Furs .
Manufactured Silk
Tobacco .
Beans . .
Petroleum

VALUE
(Approximate)

3150,000.000

each

100,000.000
each

35. How does this list compare with the list which you made in Exercise 32?
36. What countries are commercially important to the rest of the world
because they furnish the exports listed above?
37. Why is Asia more important as a source of raw materials than of food ?
38. Why does it furnish less food for other countries than do regions like
southern South America and Canada, where the number of people encaged
 in raising food is not a tenth as great as in Asia?