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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 com- 
merce and industry of 
Asia are relatively in- 
active. 
Practically all, because 
Asia does little manufac- 
turing 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 Cot- 
ton 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 en- 
caged in raising food is not a tenth as great as in Asia?