too, imports of Counter and Baking Flour are entered under Baking Products (n.e.s.). This
undoubtedly explains the substantial drop in the quantity of Wheat and Wheat Flour imported
in Jamaica after 1953 which is correspondingly made up by the substantial increase in Bak-
ing Products. These individual movements donot, however, disturb the overall pattern.

 Deciduous Fruits are shown as Group 5. The group is divided into three main sub-
groups: (i) Fresh, (ii) Dried and (iii) Preserved or Tinned. For Fresh, we show Apples
and Grapes separately, and group all other Fresh Deciduous Fruits together. In Barba-
dos, we have had to simply make an omnibus item of all Fresh Fruits. Dried fruits in-
clude such items as raisins, currants and prunes, whereas for Preserved and Tinned we
include such items as canned pears, peaches, apricots and other preserved fruits. It is
not worthwhile to extend the group beyond these items.

 The most we could do in the case of Group 6, Vegetables, was to abstract the principal
items of Irish Potatoes, Peas, Beans and Lentils and Tomatoes, and group all other vege-
tables together as "Other Fresh Vegetables". In Barbados, tomatoes are included with
other fresh vegetables. The other category of vegetables, Tinned and Preserved Vege-
tables, also includes dried vegetables in some instances.

 For Group 7, Beverages (Non-Alcoholic), we have shown only the three main items of
cocoa, coffee and tea. Cocoa includes both raw and powdered cocoa while coffee includes
both raw and ground coffee as well as coffee extracts and essences.

 Group 8, Feeding Stuffs for Animals, corresponds to Division 08 of the Standard Inter-
national Trade Classification, Feeding Stuffs for Animals (not including Unmilled Cereals).
Sub-group (a) Grains and Cereals, includes such things as hay and fodder, bran and pol-
lard, while sub-group (b) includes feeds like linseed cake and meal, and fish and meat mea.


 Group 9, Edible Oils and Fats, has had to be restricted to the three main items of mar-
garine and other butter substitutes, lard and lard substitutes and cooking oil, all of which
are grouped together to comprise the overall group. The other groups are self-explanatory.

 The quantity unit used throughout is mainly thousand pounds. The difficulty involved
with Eggs has already been stated and the unit used on each tabulated summary is clearly
stated. The other notable exceptions are Molasses and Syrups, which quote quantities in
thousand liquid gallons, and Preserved and Tinned Fruits, which quote quantities in thou-
sand liquid gallons and thousand pounds. Cotton and Cotton Piece Goods are expressed in
thousand square yards while Fertilisers, which refer only to imports of manufactured fer-
tilisers, are in thousand tons.

 A dash in any column signifies that the quantity of the item concerned was less than one
thousand units. We have also corrected all units to the nearest thousand, so that where
imports are less in quantity than 500 they are corrected downwards and vice versa. All
blank spaces mean that the information was not available.

 The principal sources of the data presented in Table 23a-23d and discussed in this Ap-
pendix are the Annual Trade Returns for each territory, while our subsidiary sources of
information were mainly the Caribbean Yearbooks or Colonial Office Annual or Biennial
Reports on the individual territories. The problem of reconciling data from these various
sources did not present itself.