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Excerpt from The Export Trade in Manufactures of the United Kingdom, Germany and the United States
For the purpose of the present Memorandum the figures relating to the United Kingdom are retabulated from the Annual Statement of Trade of the United Kingdom. The definition of manufactures is for the United Kingdom that adopted in the last issue of this Annual Statement and all these items have been tabulated for the years 1885, 1895, 1905, 1906 and 1907. The definition of manufactures in the German returns is known to vary in important respects from the British definition. Thus pig iron and steel billets which are manufactures in the British returns are raw materials in the German returns. In the main however and to the extent of about 95 per cent. Of the trade the classifications are identical, and the two sets of figures are therefore substantially comparable. There is no available list of the commodities which compose the group F abrikate (manufactures) in the German returns prior to 1907, but by a careful examination of the exports of manufactures item by item a list has been drawn up and its accuracy is assured by the fact that it gives a total identical to the last unit with. The German official total. Where similar groups of manufactures are compared in the three countries, care has been taken to make them substantially alike. Thus British paper and stationery is compared with German paper, these official designations being found to include similar items.
The laborious character of the undertaking may be gathered from the fact that the trade of Germany with each country is contained in a separate volume, and to ascertain the total of the German exports of manufactures to any one country it was necessary to extract and deal with some six hundred separate items, a process which had to be repeated for each country separately mentioned in this Memorandum.
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