270 WHAT EXPORTS MEAN TO US The more we send abroad ... Perhaps you are not in the ex- port trade yourself, but it is important to you just the same. Exports pay for our tobacco, tea, coffee and oranges. They pay for all the cotton and nearly all the wool for our clothes. And they pay for most of the raw materials that keep our factories going. Our exports —the product of British machines and British craftsmanship—are the only way we have of paying for the things we can't produce here, on our own CUTLERY MACHINE TOOLS CHEMICALS DYES MOTOR-LORRIES GENERATORS the more we can bring in .