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684 IX. MINING INDUSTRY AND METAL PRODUCTION OF SWEDEN.
Table 96. Imports and exports of manufactured and unmanufactured
minerals and metals. (A krona = Tio shill. or 0’268 dollar.)
Average for the years Imports. Value in thousands of Kr. Exports. Value in thousands of Kr.
Minerals. > Unraanuf. metals. Metal
manufactures. Total. Minerals.’ Unmannf. metals. Metal
manufactures. Total. |
1871/75......................20.576 9.542 9,526 3»,844 1,622 46,409 1,537 41,5M
1876/80....................20,918 9,306 7,849 38,073 2,730 34,513 1,390 38,133
1881/85......................27,042 8,614 12,251 47,0071 4,911 40,645 4,336 41,Sit
1886/90......................35,107 9,300 14,076 58,483 9,239 34,523 4,249 48,»ll
1891/95......................44,240 9,002 17,843 71,085 18,742 30,995 4,979 54,71»
1896/00 ....................74,434 17,931 25.869 118,234 31,575 40,459 9,077 81,111
In 1900....................109,099 25,556 28,708 103,3031 36,406 52,395 11,016
A general view of the imports and exports of products of the
mining and metal production industries can be had from Tables 96 and
97, p. 684 and 685. The first one shows the total imports and exports
both of manufactured and unmanufactured minerals and metals, the
second table only treats of the raw materials.
"With regard to the total mineral and metal industry of Sweden,
including also the corresponding manufacturing industry (not
machinery), Table 96 shows that during the period 1871/85 the value of the
exports surpassed that of the imports, but since that time the ratio of
the imports has been rising considerably.
The manufacturing industry, however, is to be treated of in a
special chapter; the subject to be considered here, is only the mining
industry and the extraction of metals. Thus, in confining us hereto,
we will find the figures of imports and exports in the Table 97.
To begin with, leaving aside coal and coke, we note a yearly excess
of exports during the whole time; for the different five-year periods
(1871/1900), this excess amounts respectively to 32-64, 20-99, 25*73, 20 38,
20-27, and 25-37 million kronor per annum; for the year 1900, the
amount was raised to 30-33 millions. No progress has thus been made,
and the last column of the Table evidently testifies to unfavourable
circumstances for the sale of our iron products during the greater part
of this time. The improvement shown in 1896/1900 is chiefly due to
the ore exports.
If also coal be included, as it properly should be, the result assumes
quite a different appearance. Also in this case an excess of exports
is seen for the years 1871/85, but afterwards the reverse is the case.
The year 1899 shows an excess of imports of more than 30 million kronor,
which in 1900 was nearly doubled (55 millions). Our coal imports for
the latter year amounted to the enormous sum of 85 million kronor.
Yet this is due also to the unusually high prices of this year. In the
1 Manufactured and unmanufactured minerals.
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