A prominent feature in its trade is the shipment of live cattle.
Adra is the port of shipment for the lead obtained near Berja, 10 m.
In 1889 the first shipment of Argentine cattle, consisting altogether of 1930 steers, was sent to England.
The same year he notified President Carranza, of Mexico, that the United States would not adopt his proposed Pan-American plan of stopping the shipment of food and munitions to all the European belligerents.