Anglo-Egyptian) 143 ] FOREIGN TRADE ; EXPORTS therise in prices resulting from war conditions. Only with respect to five articles of export, however, was there a positive decrease in quantity, and in three of these five cases there was also a decrease in value; in the other two cases — undressed skins and senna - the fall in the quantity exported was accompanied by a rise in the total value. Taken as a whole, the amount of the exports has risen, as wellas their value, but not to the same degree. On the other hand, in the case of imports, theincrease in value was accompanied by a general diminution in quantity.

With the exception of dura (large millet) and mother-of-pearl shell, the prices of all commodities have increased . The price of dura in 1913 was exceptionally high, on account of a on account of a poor yield synchronising with a strong demand from Egypt.

(a) Exports Gum is the principal commodity exported from the Sudan , representing, on an average, about 30 per cent . of the total exports. Of rathermore than 15,000 tons exported in 1913 ,France took nearly 24 per cent., Great Britain and Germany 18 per cent. each, the United States 13 per cent., Belgium 7 per cent . , and Egypt 5 per cent . In 1917 , when enemy countries of course received nothing, practically the entire export of gum went to Egypt and Great Britain , the former taking 47 per cent. and the latter 45 per cent . Egypt has always been to some extent a distributing centre for Sudanese produce en route for foreign countries, and although since the opening of the Atbara - Port Sudan Railway in 1906 the majority of the exports from the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan have been despatched by way of the RedSea , during the war the practice of sending goods through Egypt was to some extent resumed . Thus , while no gum whatsoever is produced in Egypt, and all that is required there is imported from the Sudan , in 1916 £É . 300,000 worth of the commodity , equivalent to 40 per cent. of the Sudanese export, figures among the exports of Egypt.