The principal imports from Great and Britain and the United States are as follows:

Barbadoes is getting to be considerable of an entrepot for supplying the neighboring islands with British and other foreign products and manufactures; it thus becomes doubly important that our exporters should use special efforts to secure as large a share of its trade as possible.

FOREIGN TRADE OF GRENADA.

(Area, 133 square miles; population, 43,000.)

The total annual foreign trade of Grenada is estimated as follows: Imports, $675,000; exports, $750,000.

The principal portion of the imports come from Great Britain ($320,000), Barbadoes ($220,000), and from the United States (about $75,000.) The principal portion of the exports go to Great Britain, viz, $650,000, the balance going to the other British West Indian islands, and insignificant amounts to France and the French West Indies. It does not appear that any of the exports reach the United States. The character of the imports is similar to the imports into Barbadoes. Cocoa and sugar are the chief exports.

FOREIGN TRADE OF TOBAGO,

(Area, 114 square miles; population, 19,000.)

The total annual foreign trade of Tobago is estimated at $600,000 viz: Imports, $215,000; exports, $385,000. The direct British import trade into Tobago has fallen away from $150,000 in 1877 to $30,000 in 1880, owing to the fact that the Tobagoan merchants prefer to buy their supplies in Barbadoes just as they require them. The exports to Great Britain hold their own, and amount to about $350,000 annually. The principal portion of the imports of the island are, therefore, received from Barbadoes.

There does not appear to be any direct trade between Tobago and the United States, but there can be no doubt that a fair share of American

produce reaches the island via Barbadoes and other West India islands, the imports being of the same nature as those entered at Barbadoes. Sugar, rum, molasses, and cocoanuts constitute the chief portion of the exports of the island.

FOREIGN TRADE OF TRINIDAD.

(Area, 1,754 square miles; population 110,000.)

The total annual foreign trade of Trinidad is estimated at $21,800,000, viz: Imports, $10,800,000, of which bullion and specie and re-exports amounted to $3,900,000, leaving $6,900,000 as entered for consumption; exports of native produce, $7,200,000; total exports, $11,100,000.

The principal portion of the imports are received from the following countries, viz: Great Britain, $3,315,000; Venezuela, $2,200,000; the United States, $1,750,000; British West Indies, $525,000; British East Indies, $570,000; British North America, $340,000; France, $480,000; the other dependencies and countries from which imports are received in small quantities being the Dutch West Indies, French West Indies, Germany, Spain, &c.

The chief portion of the.exports go to the following countries and colonies: Great Britain, $7,200,000; Venezuela, $1,300,000; the United States, $1,100,000; France, $750,000; British West Indies, $250,000; Canada, $150,000.

Imports.-The principal imports of Trinidad and the principal countries from which they are imported are as follows: Cotton and linen manufactures, total import $1,500,000, the principal portion of which comes from Great Britain, with small lots from France and the United States; butter, from France and the United States; candies, from Great Britain and the United States; corn and grain, from Great Britain and the United States; flour and meal, from the United States and British West Indies; fish, from British North America; hardware, from Great Britain and the United States; lard, from the United States; leather manufactures, from Great Britain and France; live stock, from Venezuela; mules, from the United States; machinery, from Great Britain; malt liquors, from Great Britain; manure, from Great Britain; salted meats, from the United States; oils, from France and the United States; rice, from the East Indies ($500,000); shooks, from the United States; soap, from the United States; refined sugar, from the United States and France; tobacco, from the United States; wines, from France and Spain; lumber, from the United States and Canada.

Exports.-The exports of Trinidad and the principal countries to which they go are as follows: Sugar, over $4,000,000, to Great Britain and the United States; cocoa, over $2,400,000, to Great Britain, France, and the United States; molasses, to Great Britain, the United States, and France; asphaltum, to Great Britain, the United States, and France; bitters, to Great Britain and the United States; and cocoanuts, to Great Britain.

RÉSUMÉ OF BRITISH WEST INDIAN TRADE.

The following statements show the total trade of the British West Indies, and the relative shares of Great Britain and the United States therein:

The foregoing table is compiled from colonial statistics, and generally embraces the year 1879, while in many cases, where no recent colonial . returns were available, the estimates were based upon old returns. This mode of arriving at the details was unavoidable, owing to the fact that the official returns of the United Kingdom group all the colonies under the heading of British West Indies. It will be noted, however, that the totals in the above table, when the usual increase in value from the time of shipment until the goods were entered as imports in the islands is added, agree with the total as given by British returns for 1879, as will be seen bythe tables which follow, showing the exports from Great Britain to the British West Indies, viz, $10,813,000, against $11,500,000 as estimated from colonial returns. The exports of Great Britain during the year 1880 show an increase in British trade of $1,100,000. It is thought, however, that the year 1879 gives a fairer estimate of the annual value of British exports to these colonies than the year 1880, as it will be seen that nearly one-half the increase in the latter year occurred in foreign goods. In regard to the estimates as above given concerning the imports from the United States, they are about $400,000 more than the direct exports to the colonies as given in our customs returns for the year 1880-'81.

The British returns, herewith following, give the value of imports from her West Indian colonies during the year 1880 as $21,627,000, and the imports into the United States during the year 1880-'81 are given in our customs returns as amounting to $6,294,000, which may be accounted for by the addition of costs and freightage and increased value.

Statements showing the trade of Great Britain, France, and the United States, according to the official returns of these countries, with the British West Indies.

*The imports into France include those from all British America. The "all other articles" in the French column are composed principally of cereals and lumber, received most likely from Canada, so that the imports into France from the British West Indies are very light.

Among the British "all other articles" foreign goods amounted to $1,276,000, leaving the value of the exports of British goods proper to the British West Indies $10,643,000, or about $2,400,000 more than the exports of American produce and manufactures thither. Here, however,

the comparison ceases, as will be seen by glancing over the columns showing the exports of British and American manufactures. In the cotton goods exports the difference is most marked, nearly $3,000,000 worth of British cottons to $108,000 worth of American. The contrast is also very marked in the following articles: Apparel and haberdashery, beer and ale, drugs, medicines, earthen and china ware, hats, glassware, hardware and cutlery, leather and manufactures of, machinery, iron, and soap.

Of the total value of the exports from the United States to the West Indies breadstuffs constituted $3,850,000, flour alone amounting to $2,560,000, and provisions constituted $1,640,000; a total of breadstuff's and provisions of $5,490,000; leaving only $2,907,000 for all other products and manufactures, a sum only a little larger than the exports thither of British cotton goods alone.

Imports into the United Kingdom from the British West Indies.

Exports from the United Kingdom to the British West Indies.