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XI. COMMERCE OF SWEDEN.
we import from this country coffee, wheat, maize, petroleum, other oils,
as well as linseed cakes, cotton, woolen and cotton fabrics, hides and
skins, furs, machinery, implements, etc. From olden times Sweden has
been in brisk mercantile relationship with Denmark. Our considerable
export nowadays to Denmark of butter and pork only means further
forwarding to England; and with regard to import goods from Denmark,
cereals, machinery, and tools, etc., they, as a rule, come from Germany,
and the colonial wares from Germany and other countries more distant
To Norway Sweden exports cattle and certain kinds of farm
products, further cotton and woolen fabrics, yarn, wood-pulp, joinery, deals
and battens, iron and steel wares, machinery, tools, etc. The import
goods from this country are fish, pork, margarine, hides, skins, etc., as
well as sundry manufactures, the greatest portion of them in reality
having their origin from England.
With reference to the trade between Sweden and Norway certain facilities
were already conceded during the early period of the Union, and in 1874 a
Commercial Treaty was signed, according to which goods of Swedish or
Norwegian manufacture should (with a few exceptions) be imported free of duty into
the other country. Since Sweden has adopted a new system of customs dues and
Norway has declined to make the alterations in the Treaty necessary for
preventing misuse of the differences of the customs-rates, the Treaty was readied
by Sweden and ceased to be in force in July 1897.
The export from Sweden to Norway has not until 1902 been completely
entered in our commercial statistics, as every provision regarding account of export
by land has been wanting — where no especial grounds have occasioned such
accounts. As long as the above-mentioned Treaty remained in force, such grounds
certainly were of common occurrence, owing to the exemption of duty which could
be gained by declaring the merchandise as Swedish; but subsequent to the annulling
of the Treaty, the exporter seldom gains any advantage by declaration to the
custom-house officers, in consequence of which the result naturally has become
thaj the statements have grown considerably less complete than before. From
1902 inclusive, these defects are, however, remedied in the Swedish statistics, the
declaration before the Custome Officers being now obligatory. The subjoined Table, which
shows Sweden’s export to Norway according to Swedish statistics on the one side and
according to the Norwegian statistics on the other, clearly illustrates these matters.
Table 135. Sweden’s Exports to Norway, according to Swedish and to
Norwegian Statistics. Value in Kronor.
Years. The Exports by Sea. The Exports by Land. Total.
Swedish figures. Norwegian figures. Swedish figures. Norwegian figures. Swedish figures. Kamglu figure*.
189 4........................10,236,041 9,584,500 5,032,675 19,848,400 15,268,716 29,432,900
189 5........................12,323,973 11,150,100 5,729,818 22,385,000 18,053,791 33,535.100
189 6........................13,558,229 12,060,900 5,990,181 26,231,300 19.54*,410 38,292,200
189 7........................14,178,003 13,696,900 6,461,430 28,580,900 20.639,433 42,277,800
1898 ........................4,913,303 5,972,0001 635,704 17.646,100 5.549,007 23,618,100
1899 ........................5,389,350 6,037,9001 1,061,702 19.529,600 6,451,052 25,567,500
1900 ........................4,784.312 5,663,500 2,402,281 21,500.000 7,186,593 27,163.500
1901 ........................4,918,757 5,868.500 1,734,174 18,160,000 6.652,931,24,028.500
1902 ........................5,383,000 6,376,000 18,953,000 17.967,000 24,336,000 1 24,343,000
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