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XI. COMMERCE! OF SWEDEN.
B) The groups witbin which the export is decidedly predominant.
To these groups properly belong the products of forestry, of
cattle-breeding, of paper industry, and of mining and metal manufacture.
The greatest of all our export articles is unwrought timber, which
certain years amounts to equally large values as the whole of our other
export put together. In 1902, the export of unwrought (sawn, hewn, and cut)
timber amounted to nearly 149 million kronor and the import not quite
to 3 million. Also our export of wrought timber is considerable and rapidly
growing. In 1902, it amounted to over 45 million kronor, 26"4 8 million
of which represented wood-pulp, 7’rs million kronor was for matches and
10-19 million for joinery and carpentry works. — One of our greatest
export articles is also paper, whereof there was exported, in 1902, for
19 million kronor; the imports amounted only to about 4 million.
In 1902, Sweden imported nearly for 28 V» million kronor of
live animals and animal food, but exported for nearly 48 million
kronor. The import articles are principally pork and salted herrings,
the export-articles butter, pork, and unsalted herrings. The export of
butter has of låte years amounted to about 40 million kronor annually.
Our export of unmanufactured minerals and of metal goods is very
considerable, but is excelled by the import, wherefore these articles are treated
of above. We export considerably more of manufactured minerals and
of unmanufactured metals, however, than we import. Of iron and steel
(unwrought or only partially wrought) we exported in 1902 for more
than 39 million kronor, these goods thu3 forming one of the standard
articles of our export. On account of sinking prices in the world’s
market, the export of iron and steel has not, however, since reached
the high values which it attained during the first half of the decennium
1871/80.
The total import of the seven groups now treated amounted in 1902
to about 63 million kronor, but the export to 317 million.
A summary of our import, according to the use of the articles, and
of our export, according to the main industries from which the different
articles are derived, is given in Table 132, p. 923.
Sweden’s commerce with different countries.
The countries with which Sweden has the greatest intercommerce
are Great Britain and Ireland, the German Empire, Denmark, Norway,
Russia and Finland, and also France, the Netherlands and Belgium
— thus in the first place our neighbouring countries. With regard to
this ought, however, not to be forgotten, the weakness noticeable in the
commercial statistics of our country as well as of most other countries,
in entering as place of origin that port whence the goods were last
shipped, and as country of destination that to which goods were first
shipped — in consequence of which the adjacent countries are always
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