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articles for nutriment or indulgence.
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may be noted that the figure for Western Europe is 270. The yield of
sugar per hectare in Sweden is 35 quintals, in Western Europe 32, in
Germany 40. The percentage of sugar in the beet has averaged for a
five-year period 12*2 in Western Europe, and, as is shown by Table 117,
the same figure represents the state of affairs in Sweden in later years.
In 1901, Sweden’s percentage was even 13’9 %.
Karpalund Sugar-Factory.
There has of old been a customs duty on sugar in Sweden, the revenue yielded
thereby having been very considerable. Since July 1, 1873, the home production
has been excised. This has all along been done in the form of a beet-tax, based
on an assumed fixed percentage of sugar in the beet; the amount depending upon
the current customs duty on unrefined sugar, to begin with 20 % of it, later 40 %,
and at present 50 %; the last figure has ruled since 1891. As the customs duty
is 23-5 öre per kilogr., the excise is 11’75 Ore.1 The yield, at first assumed at
6-2 5 % of the weight of the raw beet, has been gradually raised, so that since
1902 it has been reckoned at 12 %.
The control exercised is very simple. It takes effect on the weight of the
beet. The weighing of the beet on arrival at the factory is controlled and
registered by Comptrollers, who are superintended by a Comptroller General
over several factories. In the last resort the manufacture of beet-sugar is
controlled by the Head of the Control and Assay Office of the Finance Department.
The Royal edict now in force dealing with beet-sngar manufacture, dates from
May 19, 1893, but has been subsequently amended in certain particulars.
The principal cause of the rapid rise of the sugar industry in
Sweden is to be found in the very considerable protective duty on imported
sugar. In spite of the increase in the rate of the excise levied upon
1 One hundred öre per kilogram = 6 pence or 12 2 cents per avoirdupois pound.
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