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IMPORT OF CEREALS. TEXTILE GOODS AND GROCERIES SINCE 1870. –––––— Cereals; ——————————— Textile goods, thread and yarn; ........... Groceries.

Among articles of consumption we should also mention
household goods and furniture, which we imported to a total value
of kr. 22,000,000 in 1898.

        

If we now turn to the imports for production, we notice
that the greater part of the value is represented by raw materials,
these amounting, in 1898, to kr. 73,000,000, while kr. 22,000,000
are represented by machines and implements, kr. 19,000,000 by
ships, and 2.4 million kr. by naval stores.

Among raw materials we may especially mention coal
(kr. 17,000,000), hides and skins (kr. 8,500,000), iron and steel
(kr. 8,000,000), raw materials for textile industries (5.3 million kr.,
chiefly cotton, wool and hemp), petroleum, etc. (3.3 million kr.)
and hemp-seed-oil, linseed oil, etc. (2.3 million kr.). It is of
particular interest to follow the development, of the import of
coal, which may serve as a kind of barometer of our industry.
In 1835 we only imported 6,000 tons of coal, but in 1850,
more than 47,000 tons, in 1860, 125,000 tons, in 1870, 250,000
tons, in 1880, 470,000 tons, in 1890, 787,000 tons, and in 1898,
1,265,000 tons.

The import of iron and steel has also increased very much,
and still more that of illuminating oils, of which article we
only imported about 20 tons per annum in the fifties, in 1875
5,000 tons, in 1897 about 40,000 tons, and in 1898 somewhat
less — 37,000 tons. Of hemp, on the other hand, we now
import not much more than in the fifties, and less than in the
seventies.

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