N O T E S

Table 3

-1/ - Loose jute " White & Tossa combined ", Rice (Coarse)Open Market Price, (1 maund = 37.324 Kg.). 2/ - Jute " TD5 " at Calcutta. 3/ - Rice Paddy (Coarse) until Nov.1995 (average of two centres in West Bengal); From Jan. 1998 Rice Paddy (Fine Variety) . 4/ - Kenaf " Grade A " ex-godown, Cassava " Hard Pellets ".

Table 4

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1/ - Bangladesh BWD and BWC f.o.b. Chittagong-Chalna, at sight until Dec. 96, from January 1997 f.o.b. Mongla. 2/ - Established by FAO Intergovernmental Group (IGG) on Jute, Kenaf and Allied fibres. 3/ - C&F United Kingdom, 3 months' terms. Since July 1998 raw jute is not imported into the U.K.

Table 5

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1/ - F.o.b. port price.

Table 6

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1/ - F.o.b. price Calcutta inclusive of port and customs charges.

Table 7

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1/ - Prices f.o.b. basis.

Table 11

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1/ - Crop year (July/June) for exporting countries of the Far East. For other countries data relate to calendar years beginning in the first year shown. All volumes are expressed in terms of products weight.

Table 12

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1/ - Calendar year basis for all countries including exporting countries of the Far East. Products exports are expressed in terms of fibre equivalent.

Table 13

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1/ - Calendar year basis.

Table 14

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1/ - Calendar year basis. 2/ - All volumes are expressed in terms of product weight.

Table 15

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1/ - Calendar year basis. Products imports are expressed in terms of fibre equivalent.

Table 16

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1/ - Includes other minor items.

Table 17

-

1/ - Includes other minor items.

Table 18

-

1/ - Includes other minor items.

Table 19

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1/ - Includes other minor items. 2/ - Stocks end of season (July/June)

Table 20

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1/ - Includes other minor items. 2/ - Stocks end of season (July/June)

Table 21

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1/ - Stocks end of season (July/June)

Table 22

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1/ - Opening stocks (season July/June)

Table 26

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1/ - Figures express quarterly average prices for jute fibre BWD F.o.b. Mongla as percentage of those of polypropylene

Table 27

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1/ - Figures express quarterly average prices for 413 Imported tex of jute yarn and 2250 denier of PP yarn.

Table 28

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1/ - Figures express quarterly average prices for imported sacks of Jute 7.5oz/40" as percentage of those PP 70gr/m2 imported sacks

Table 30

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1/ - Includes Dominican Rep., Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua 2/ - Estimates of : Argentina, Chile, South Africa 3/ - Estimates of : Brazil (caroa), Costa Rica (cabuya), El Salvador (letona), Ethiopia (banana and doum), Mauritius (aloe), Philippines (maguey), Reunion (aloe) 4/ - Excluding Abaca and Coir

Table 31

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1/ - Fibre include tow 2/ - Includes Costa Rica, Cuba, El Salvador, South Africa,Venezuela

Table 32

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1/ - Average of weekly quotation, excluding surcharges for buyers' account

Table 36

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1/ - Product weight 2/ - Fibre equivalent

Table 37

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1/ - Average of weekly quotation, excluding surcharges for buyers' account 2/ - C.i.f. equivalent in US$/tonne of the indicator price which, as of 1.1.1982, has been expressed in $/bale f.o.b.

Table 40

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1/ - Includes twine

Table 43

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1/ - Includes twine

Table 44

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1/ - Product weight

Table 46

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1/ - Product weight 2/ - Converted from data expressed in surface area