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Title: | Some export statistics for Nigeria, 1880-1905 |
Author: | Manning, P. |
Year: | 1967 |
Periodical: | The Nigerian Journal of Economic and Social Studies |
Volume: | 9 |
Issue: | 2 |
Pages: | 229-234 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Nigeria |
Subjects: | exports palm oil |
Abstract: | For the latter part of the 19th century the foreign trade of Nigeria can be studied in a reasonably systematic fashion using no more than the British Parliamentary Papers. The Annual Statements of Trade for the United Kingdom (1880-1905), the Annual Trade Reports for the Oil Rivers and Niger Coast Protectorates (1891-1894), the Colonial Statistical Tables for Lagos (1880-1905), for the Niger Coast Protectorate (1895-1899), and for the Protectorate of Southern Nigeria (1900-1905) consist of detailed annual statements of imports by point of origin, and of exports by point of destination, giving quantities and values of each commodity. British domination of trade in the Niger Delta before 1890 makes possible the estimation of the exports of palm oil and palm kernels before the establishment of customs stations in 1891, using British import statistics. After 1891 these statistics may be used to estimate the exports of the Royal Niger Cy, which also may be estimated on recorded export duties. This article, a summary of the published statistics and estimates made from them, shows the contours, in terms of volume, of Nigerian exports of palm oil and kernels from 1880 to 1905. Notes; tables; figures. |