Tables giving the details of trade with the various countries are given below:

COMMERCE OF GREAT BRITAIN.

The annual statement of trade of the United Kingdom for 1897 (it should be noted that the British figures cover the Ladrone Islands) has the following:

To these exports, which represent the produce and manufactures of the United Kingdom, should be added the foreign produce which passes through British ports. The figures for these last-named exports for the years given were: In 1893, $268,000; 1894, $162,000; 1895, $135,000; 1896, $144,000; 1897, $116,000.

The principal articles of foreign produce which passed through British ports en route to the Philippines in 1897 were: Cheese,

$18,000; cotton manufactures, $2,600; hams, $12,000; iron and steel manufactures, $1,800; condensed milk, $12,600.

Indigo was formerly imported from the Philippines into Great Britain (to the value of $39,000 in 1893), but does not appear in reports for recent years. Unwrought copper and dyewoods have also decreased in import.

COMMERCE OF FRANCE.

According to statistics published in the Tableau Générale du Commerce et de la Navigation for the years from 1893 to 1896 (the edition for 1897 not having been received), the trade with France has been as follows:

A much larger proportion of foreign goods, it appears, passes through French than through British ports to the Philippines. Foreign cotton goods figured in the exports for $137,860; silk manufactures, for $39,733; metals, for $633; cotton thread, for $5,363; paper, for $1,802; and woolen manufactures, for $2,493. The total

value of foreign goods exported from France to the Philippines in 1896 was $195,898, while the French exports amounted to $163,898.

COMMERCE OF GERMANY.

Statistics covering only two years-1895 and 1896-are available. They are taken from the editions of Auswärtiger Handel for those. years, and comprise the foreign products which were exported from German ports, as well as those of domestic manufacture. The large majority of the exports, however, are of German origin; the value of the foreign articles being represented by only $29,988 in 1896. Cotton goods and groceries were the only items of importance in the transit trade. It should be noted that the German statistics include the trade with other Spanish possessions in Oceanica.

The figures covering Spain's trade with the Philippines are taken from Spain's Foreign Trade, Frank H. Hitchcock, Department of

Agriculture, 1898. The imports and exports for the five years from 1891 to 1895 were:

Details of the trade by articles are not given, except in certain imports from the Philippines:

The Annual Return of Foreign Trade for 1897 has the following figures:

To the exports should be added the values of foreign products passing through Japan in 1897, which amounted to $1,730. Provisions figured in this total to the value of $230; subnitrate of bismuth, $770; and dynamo-electric machinery, $250.

COMMERCE OF CHINA.

The Returns of Trade for 1897, issued by the Imperial Maritime Customs, has the following details:

Details of the trade by articles are, unfortunately, not available.

COMMERCE OF BRITISH INDIA.

The trade for the four years ending in 1896, according to the Statistical Abstract for the Colonies of the United Kingdom, 1897,

The chief articles of import and export in 1896 were:

British returns estimate the value of the rupee at 2s. (48.6 cents). In making the above reductions, however, the valuation of the rupee as given by the United States Director of the Mint is taken, the average of which for 1896 was 23.4 cents. According to the British