IMPORTS OF ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT
The total imports of electrical equipment into the Netherland East
Indies during 1926, 1927, and 1928 amounted in value to 48,748,259
florins, or almost $20,000,000. Of this amount, 78 per cent was
imported into the island of Java, and the balance was taken by the
islands of the Outer Possessions. Imports during 1928 were approxi-
mately 70 per cent more in value than imports during 1926, an indi-
cation of the increasing importance of the Netherland East Indies as
a market for electrical equipment.
During this three-year period the value of the imports of Govern-
ment-purchased electrical equipment amounted to 24 per cent of the
total, being valued at 11,851,622 florins. The value of imports by
private firms amounted to 36,886,637 florins.
The following table shows the value of imports of electrical equip-
gs into the Netherland East Indies during the years, 1926-1928,
inclusive:
[MPORTS oF ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT INTO NETHERLAND EAST INDIES, 1026-1028 1
[Value in florins 2]
Territory and importer
Java and Madura:
Private SINS. cucu ssmmimsisss oa wa
Government. _
Outer possessions:
Private firms. ocean
Government...
Total ____.
Grand total _________
Total...
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6, 653, 269
2. 200, 937
8. 854. 208
2, 706, 152
371,879
3, 078, 031
11, 932, 237 |
1927
"1098
10, 225, 466 | 10,985,212
3, 706, 40 4, 285, 274
3.931, 506 + 15,270, 4868
2,062,202 | 4,163,336
430, 352 958, 140
2,402,554 | 5,121,476
16,424,060 | 20,391, 962
1 Compiled from statistics of the Central Bureau of Statistics,
21 florin (guilder) equals $0.402 in United States currency.
ORIGIN OF IMPORTS
An analysis of the imports of electrical equipment shows that
Germany and the Netherlands supply approximately 80 per cent of
the total, the United States 7 per cent, and the balance of 13 per
cent comes from Great Britain, Swtizerland, France, Sweden, Italy,
and Japan. No attempt is made to separate the amounts imported
from the Netherlands and Germany. The import figures indicate
that the former is the largest supplier, but the official statistics of
the Netherland East Indics show shipments to the country where the
goods were last traded in, rather than the country of origin. A
large portion of the German purchases are made in the Netherlands
by the secretaries of private companies, public-utility companies, and
the Government purchasing bureau; the goods are thus sent through
that country for shipment. These transshipments are credited to
the Netherlands rather than Germany, thus distorting the trade
figures somewhat in favor of the Netherlands.
With few exceptions, Germany and the Netherlands supply the
majority of all the classes of electrical equipment used in the Nether-
land East Indies, particularly electric lamps, copper wire, motors,
water turbines, transmission and distribution equipment, and wire-