Note.-The Import Accounts of Dutiable Goods are compiled from estimated quantities supplied to the Customs by Importers, and are subject to correction, both as to quantities and as to value, when an official account has been taken by the Department. In subsequent Monthly Accounts such corrections are embodied in the totals of Imports for the expired portion of the current year. The corresponding totals of the Home Consumption Accounts include corrections arising from over-entries.

Total British Countries

..

8,104

3,062

492

30

1,516

3,671

7,767

1,572

2,615,443

796,517 681,052 936,532 2,168,870 2,291,180 3,245,549 7,295,746 10,754,663 1,442,093 1,851,919 2,336,073 9,356,282 305,876 245,517 420,679 1,118,631 1,039,317 1,178,877

4,258,533

Consumption

Entered for Home Consumption

Entered for Home
Consumption
MOLASSES and invert Sugar and all
other Sugar and extracts from
Sugar which cannot be completely
tested by the Polariscope, and on
which Duty is not otherwise
charged-

From Foreign Countries
British Countries

Imports.

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1,690,897 1,437,013 1,285,302§ 5,899,356 4,729,641 5,946,0478 11,137,835 12,973,472 2,260,412 3,177,204 2,880,148 10,203,515 3,239,807 3,647,721 3,905,864 13,613,611 3,009,880 2,799,200 2,322,402 10,319,369 9,672,512 9,372,082

..

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The corrected quantities and values of the imports of Sugar are here given for 1926 and 1927. The quantities here shown are exclusive of the deliveries of Refined Sugar which has been produced from duty-paid Sugar returned to refineries to be again refined. Sugar Refineries ceased working in Bond as from the 25th April, 1928. The quantities here shown are exclusive of the deliveries of Molasses and invert Sugar, &c., which has been produced from duty-paid sugar returned to refineries to be again refined. In addition to the above, the following quantities were delivered free of duty for use in distilleries, &c., and as food for stock:

Note. The Import Accounts of Dutiable Goods are compiled from estimated quantities supplied to the Customs by Importers, and are subject to correction, both as to quantities and as to value when an official account has been taken by the Department. In subsequent Monthly Accounts, such corrections are embodied in the totals of Imports for the expired portion of the urrent year. The corresponding totals of the Home Consumption Accounts include corrections arising from over-entrics.