To South Africa £2,198,235 " Australia 1,353,878 " New Zealand 376,582 " Canada 281,100 " India 195,762 Of these South Africa took two-fifths of the total exports. _Haberdashery and Millinery._ To Australia £341,241 " South Africa 310,372 " India 142,341 " New Zealand 137,080 " Canada 125,401 Of these South Africa took one-fifth of the total exports. _Mining Machinery._ To Australia £129,704 " South Africa 108,365 " India 74,714 " New Zealand 11,272 South Africa took one-fifth of the total mining machinery exports, but had 1901 been a normal year, the exports would unquestionably have exceeded those of all our other Colonies and India combined. _Agricultural Machinery (excluding Engines)._ To Australia £30,829 " South Africa 26,833 " New Zealand 18,654 " India 14,294 _Manufactures of Steel, &c._ To India £268,377 " South Africa 108,187 " Australia 57,990 " New Zealand 20,189 _Locomotives._ To India £535,115 " Australia 311,616 " South Africa 281,158 " New Zealand 38,712 _Unenumerated Engines._ To India £274,257 " Australia 232,563 " South Africa 128,786 _Cast and Wrought Iron._ To India £848,857 " Australia 746,155 " South Africa 599,018 " New Zealand 202,451 " Canada 53,212 _Galvanized Sheets._ To Australia £730,952 " India 586,023 " South Africa 358,353 " New Zealand 125,828 " Canada 113,015 This brief digest will doubtless be sufficient to prove that South Africa, as a market, is to-day one of the best customers of the Motherland, and, as will be shown later, when dealing with the future outlook for Imperial trade with that country, bids fair to speedily overtop in her demands upon the United Kingdom and her Colonies and dependencies that of any single member of the Imperial family, India--of all our possessions at present our best customer--not even excepted. And what will readily be conceded is a satisfactory feature in our commercial relations with South Africa is the remarkable growth which has characterised the exports thither from British possessions and Protectorates other than the Mother Country itself, the total proportion in 1901 being £4,733,800, as against £4,590,681, the value of the combined trade with South Africa in that year of Austria, Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Holland, Switzerland, and the United States.