At the same time, our exports of manufactured paper, though amounting to only about one-third the weight, have very nearly as high an aggregate value as the imports, and have increased in much the same proportion in corresponding years. Thus:— Exports of paper of all kinds but hangings: cwt. _l._ 1880. 472,168 1,106,996 1881. 555,219 1,242,962 1882. 584,947 1,305,025 1883. 597,923 1,284,862 1884. 670,760 1,374,392 The above figures relate to paper manufactured in the United Kingdom. In addition, there were re-exports of paper of foreign and colonial manufacture to the following amounts:— Re-exports of foreign-made paper: cwt. _l._ 1880. 68,843 108,426 1881. 68,861 101,197 1882. 50,403 82,464 1883. 49,526 76,620 1884. 51,467 78,785 Taking the latest year for which detailed statistics are available, viz. 1884, we find that the importations of paper {226} are derived from foreign states in the following proportions:— Imports of paper in 1884— (_a_) Writing or printing paper: From Cwt. £ Germany 92,681 129,112 Belgium 42,139 68,370 Sweden 27,747 36,682 Holland 26,507 34,884 France 6,463 28,925 Austria 5,399 9,314 Norway 4,300 4,771 Other countries 3,174 5,655 ─────── ─────── 208,410 317,713 ━━━━━━━ ━━━━━━━ (_b_) Unenumerated sorts: From Cwt. £ Germany 139,156 209,916 Sweden 116,488 120,793 Belgium 82,263 124,476 Holland 54,594 84,699 Norway 32,294 26,765 France 19,328 69,763 United States 10,980 31,201 Austria 5,927 12,012 Spain 736 4,059 Japan 421 4,736 Other countries 3,547 5,995 ─────── ─────── 465,734 694,415 ━━━━━━━ ━━━━━━━ (_c_) Pasteboard and millboard: From Cwt. £ Holland 439,749 201,894 Germany 235,658 116,185 Belgium 51,235 25,350 Sweden 32,331 20,241 Norway 8,260 5,726 France 3,262 19,259 Other countries 2,696 2,663 ─────── ─────── 773,191 391,318 ━━━━━━━ ━━━━━━━ The exports of home-made paper in the same year were distributed as follows:— {227} Exports of home-made paper in 1884—