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Table XXV:
Principal trade of the Dutch East Indies in 1913.

 
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Total imports (in thousands of gulden) - 436,683.    Total exports (in thousands of gulden) - 614,205.
Imports. Exports.

Principal
commodities
   Per-
centage
of total.
   Thou-
sands of
gulden.
   Country.    Thou-
sands of
gulden.
   Per-
centage
of total.
   Principal
commodities.

Textiles (22.6%) 33.5 145,259 Holland 172,616 28.0 Tobacco
Copra
(51.2%)
(10.2%)
Textiles (54.9%) 17.5   76,571 Great
Britain
  23,934   3.8 Tea
Rubber
(26.0%)
(28.7%)
Unimportant France   26,715   4.3 Copra (53.8%)
Sugar Refining etc., machinery (19.1%)   6.5   28,776 Germany   14,307   2.3 Copra (48.2%)
Textiles (10.5%)
Unimportant Japan   35,812   5.8 Sugar (90.8%)
Mineral oils (46.2%)   2.0     9,033 U.S.A.   13,331   2.1 Foodstuffs (37.9%)
Rice
Meal
(43%)
(15.5%)
  7.6   33,319 India
Australia
102,596 16.7 Sugar (78.7%)
Textiles
Rice
Foodstuffs
(12.5%)
(26.4%)
(19.5%)
18.7   81,658 Penang
Malaca
Singapore
130,802 21.2 Mineral oils
Copra
(33.0%)
(10.6%)