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CHAPTER XIX.

Products

Table 5.

1000 Arabs 1000 Jews

kgs. kga.

2,843 4,826

254 800

Cotton goods Woollen goods, new Woollen goods,

second-hand

Silk and rayon goods Linen goods, etc.

Total

158

334 1,047

41 85

8,630 6,758

REQUIREMENTS AND SUPPLIES OF TEXTILES IN 1938 AND 1945.

68. The following table shows to what extent the cotton, wool, silk and rayon and linen goods consumed in Palestine in 1938 were produced locally and to what extent they were imported :-

Table 6.

Products

I Requirement I Local supplies

tons tons %

Imports

tons %

Cotton goods 4,491 708 15.7 3.783 84.3
Woollen goods 688 120 14.4 568 85.6
Silk and rayon goods 706 126 17.8 580 82.2
Linen goods, etc. 70 - - 70 100.0
Total 5,955 954 16.0 5,001 84.0
69. In considering table 7, which is similar to that shown above (table 6) but gives the figures in respect of 1945, it should be borne in mind that consumption and production were restricted for reasons connected with the war, that requirements were not fully met and that, therefore, a distinction must be made between "normal requirements" and "actual supplies". It should further

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