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who pour forth their commodities and merchandise into India, Great Britain stands the first sending from $155,000,000 to $170,000,000 worth of merchandise every year. Next comes Germany, whose exports have increased from $500,060,000 in '93 to $978,000,000.
This is only a preliminary idea about the imports into India of foreign merchandise. What we are specially interested in is a share of the United States in that trade.
Your chairman has told you that the trade with the United States is not very large. When I compare it with a large share taken by Great Britain, it seems very small indeed. I do not intend to go into the details of the various articles of manufacture of the United States that we receive in India, but still the manufacturer necessarily wants certain details that will give him that information that will be useful to him for future guidance.
In the first place then, so far as the raw products are concerned, it is very little. The possibilities of the future are great. Wheat and cotton are the important staple articles coming from America. We also produce the same articles, but the cotton market being finer than that produced in India, and on account
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