VALUE OF IMPORTS OF FRENCH COLONIES DURING THE YEAR 1896, DIVIDED ACCORDING TO CLASSES OF MERCHANDISE. NOTE.-In certain cases the specie imported is included in the French statistics under the head, "Machinery, hardware, tools, etc." The amounts are as follows: VALUE OF EXPORTS OF FRENCH COLONIES DURING THE YEAR 1896, DIVIDED ACCORDING TO CLASSES OF PRODUCTS. £ 594 3,218 2,997 130, 498 VALUE OF IMPORTS OF FRENCH COLONIES DURING THE YEAR 1896, DIVIDED ACCORDING TO CLASSES OF MERCHANDISE. VALUE OF EXPORTS OF FRENCH COLONIES DURING THE YEAR 1896, Divided accorDING TO CLASSES OF PRODUCTS. COMMERCE OF ALGERIA WITH FRANCE AND FOREIGN COUNTRIES IN 1889-1898. The British vice-consul, Mr. Drummond-Hay, in a recent report to the British Government, states that the general commerce of Algeria with France and foreign countries for the decade 1889 to 1898 (imports and exports included) has had an average volume estimated at 524,794,988 francs a year. This sum is an increase of 111,098,372 francs on the average for the preceding decade. The percentage of trade with the mother country has increased in the same period from 67.7 to 78.4 per cent of the whole. With respect to imports, the increase in the average value has been 32,091,352 francs in the last ten years, while the export average has gone up from 178,190,809 francs to 257,645,570 francs, a difference of 79,454,761 francs. The total excess of imports over exports from 1879 to 1888 was 573,149,967 francs, while from 1889 to 1898 it was only 95,038,480 francs. During the year 1898 the general commerce of Algeria with the mother country, foreign countries, French colonies and protectorates attained a total (imports and exports included) of 587,991,745 francs. This is an increase of 15,362,255 francs on the previous year. The details are as follows: |