From Tons. £ Germany 21,280 294,883 Holland 4,406 56,537 Belgium 2,867 34,713 Turkey 2,036 16,228 France 1,875 28,133 Russia 1,784 33,293 Channel Islands 282 3,972 Norway 261 3,377 Denmark 198 3,020 British South Africa 133 1,615 Australasia 113 2,245 Canary Islands 96 1,043 Spain 93 1,009 Argentine Republic 64 1,280 Other countries 745 6,518 ────── ──────- 36,233 487,866 ━━━━━━ ━━━━━━━ (_b_) Imports of esparto and other fibres in 1884: From Tons. £ Algeria 88,357 515,232 Spain 40,159 314,927 Tripoli 33,930 172,282 Tunis 20,526 117,374 Other countries 1,033 5,738 ─────── ───────── 184,005 1,125,553 ━━━━━━━ ━━━━━━━━━ (_c_) Imports of other materials, including rag and wood pulps, in 1884: {223} From Tons. £ Norway 47,923 276,204 Belgium 7,169 58,383 Holland 6,484 46,104 Sweden 5,178 48,523 Germany 3,732 36,582 France 2,128 14,667 Denmark 1,205 13,332 British India 1,046 7,735 Egypt 870 4,933 Other countries 804 6,544 ────── ─────── 76,539 513,011 ━━━━━━ ━━━━━━━ A considerable export of raw material for paper-making also takes place from British shores, the figures, embracing rags and other materials, for 1884 being as below:— (_a_) Exports of home produced rags and other paper-making materials in 1884: To Tons. £ United States 59,222 550,924 Holland 649 2,703 British America 390 4,255 Germany 262 1,673 Other countries 401 3,348 ────── ─────── 60,924 562,903 ━━━━━━ ━━━━━━━ (_b_) Exports of foreign produced ditto in 1884: (_i._) Linen and cotton rags. To Tons. £ United States 14,191 167,801 Other countries 514 5,519 ────── ─────── 14,705 173,320 ━━━━━━ ━━━━━━━ (_ii._) Esparto and other fibres.