------------------+---------+----------- Articles. | 1913 | 1914 ------------------+---------+----------- TO FOREIGN COUNTRIES. | Apricot stones: | | Bitter | $6,000 | Sweet | 8,000 | Cocoons | 8,500 | Cotton | 47,300 | $60,000 Embroideries | 20,000 | 1,000 Fruits, dried | 16,000 | Furs | 19,000 | Goatskins | 22,000 | Leather, morocco | 39,000 | Nuts: | | Pistachio | 12,000 | Other | 12,000 | Opium | 190,740 | 75,000 Raisins | 35,000 | Rugs and kilims | 20,000 | Sausage casings | 9,300 | 1,100 Silkworm eggs | 19,800 | Other articles | 9,750 | ------------------- Total 494,390 137,100 ------------------------------------- TO TURKISH PROVINCES. | Almonds | $6,500 | Apricots, dried | 42,000 | $440 Butter | 6,500 | Cotton prints | 3,000 | 26,400 Cotton | 96,000 | 20,000 Cord and ropes | 8,000 | 660 Fruits | 25,000 | 22,000 Goatskins | 75,000 | 2,000 Hides | 7,000 | 5,000 Leather, morocco | 18,000 | 2,200 Manoosa | | (cotton cloth) | 180,000 | 30,000 Raisins | 39,000 | 2,500 Silk cloth | 8,000 | 3,500 Silk, raw | 6,000 | All other articles| 79,740 | 24,900 ------------------- Total 599,740 139,600 ------------------------------------- The foregoing figures are estimates made after interviewing all the leading merchants and shopkeepers in this region. No official trade statistics are kept in the interior of Turkey. The only declared exports from this consular district to the United States during 1914 was a shipment of household goods and personal effects, valued at $92, made by a missionary, who was returning home. +Advance in Prices of Necessaries.+ The greatest decrease in imports was in the necessaries of life, such as petroleum, soap, sugar, coffee, tea, and woolen goods. The prices of these commodities have consequently increased considerably and are continuing to rise. The Government has endeavored to remedy this condition by ordering merchants to sell their wares at reasonable prices. The prices of kerosene has advanced from 80 to 200 piasters a box (two tins), soap from 9 to 10 piasters an oke (a piaster is equivalent to 4.4 cents and an oke to 2.82 pounds), sugar from 4 to 10 piasters an oke, coffee from 15 to 36 piasters an oke, and tea from 5 to 10 piasters a box, while the prices of clothes, shoes, and other articles of wearing apparel have increased on an average about 50 per cent. +Trade Opportunities Along Certain Lines.+