**35** This refers to the general shortage in cotton, wool, silk, and linen textiles, as well as ready-made clothing. The value of imports reached £E 760,696, compared to £E 123,092 in 1911. This difference indicates a decrease in the purchasing power of the farmers.

The imports of money reached £E 459,437, and exports were £E 474,628, resulting in a net increase of £E 407,015 in 1912, compared to £E 437,410 in 1911. It is noteworthy that the gold imported from Great Britain for the cotton crop movement is now being sent to India instead of being remitted to England, as was the case previously.

**Exports** Exports generally improved, reaching a value of £E 341,574, compared to £E 591,598 in 1911, an increase of £E 330,597. This satisfactory result was due to an increase in the cotton exported in the last three months of 1912 compared to the same period in the previous year, and to the rise in prices compared to 1911. The exports of cotton and seed between September and December 1912 were unprecedented in quantity. Raw cotton exports to Japan increased by 60 percent, which is a fact worth mentioning.

The onion season in 1913 surpassed all previous seasons in quantity and value. The crop reached 123,000 tons, valued at £E 385,000, compared to 400,094 tons in 1911, valued at £E 314,000.

The egg trade experienced a great boom after the rumor of chicken plague subsided. Exports reached £E 400,625 in 1912, compared to £E 96,765 in 1911, an increase of £E 400,000 compared to 1911. However, this increase was not due to an expansion of exports to those countries, but rather because a significant portion of what was valued as going to America via Great Britain was mistakenly recorded under Great Britain in the previous year.

The first shipment of unrefined Egyptian petroleum extracted from the Red Sea wells was exported.