Expenditures of the Russo-Japanese war / by Gotaro Ogawa.

EFFECTS ON COMMERCE

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IMPORTS, I903-I905-Conltilnued

Articles 1903 1904 1905

Ordinary raw materials:
Drugs and medicines.......
Dyestuffs, pigments, and paints...
Hides, leather, ivories, shells, and
horns.
Iron and steel.
Oils and wax.
Sugar and syrup.
Raw and whipped cotton..
Sheep and goat wrool..
Cocoons and ramie.
Fertilizers.
Total.
Raw materials for manufacturing purposes:
Machinery.
Metal articles..
Kerosene and machine oil.....
Printing 'paper.
Cotton yarn.
Woolen yarn..........
Tusser silk and hemp.
Coal and coke.
Railway rolling-stock and accessories
Steamships.
Total.
Total of foodstuffs, manufactured goods
and raw materials (as ahove)...
Arms and scientific apparatus...
Miscellaneous articles.
Postal parcels..

Yen
6,712,050
7,728,656
3,27I,fiio
21,931,221
1,985,067
14,856,722
69,5i8,i09
4,828,907
2,685,083
13,1i61i,096

Yen
8,125,736
5,41i8,360
8,277,30I
24,927,639
2,492,259
i8,082,09I
73,420,385
9,986,578
2,663,573
i,085,471I

Yen
1 0, 909,1I04
7,3 84,811
i18,095,203
41,387,237
2,360,974
13,051,469
i1i0,623,1i82
8,364,883
3,889,512
22,347,51i8

146,678,521 i63,479,393 238,413,898
10,398,327 12,174,065 23,389,904
5,81i6,422 7,845,471 1 6,583,145
11I,943,977 i18,624,095 I12,81I5,302
991,274 975,977 i,886,I52
1,091,642 81i9,964 2,330,569
1,144,073 2,91I2,711 5,150,399
704,051I 457,792 1,347,268
2,052,059 12,392,423 6,1I93,004
505,338 914,091 1,910,345
1,732,426 939,693 760,292
36,379,589 66,436,282 79,266,380
302,857,847 355,386,648 465,231,841
1,91I7,305 1,861,948 2,770,385
10,386,813 13,041,889 1 8,465,302
465,601 51I7,233 I,205,032

Grand total.... 315,627,566 I370,807,7i8

487,672,560

stuff imports, but the finished articles increased from 37,000,000 yen to 65,000,000 yen, partly owing to military requirements but largely due to the inflated currency. But it was
in raw materials, especially of the ordinary class, that the
heaviest increase was recorded through military demands.
The increase through anticipatory imports was spread over
the three classes, and it is not possible to point out in what
particular items the increase occurred. It is therefore necessary to ref er to the following tables to see how the three