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commercial exchange with different countries.
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of the exports to England. It is worthy of remark that, at least before
1905, a considerable part of the Swedish exports to Denmark were in
reality exported to England through Danish intermediation. — Half a
century ago, the importance of England as a buyer of Swedish products
was not nearly so great as it has been during this last decade.
The Swedish exports to Great Britain and Ireland comprise
un-wrought timber goods, wood-pulp, paper, joinery, glass, matches, butter,
eggs, bacon, rolled bar-iron, other descriptions of iron and steel, iron-ore,
etc. The imports from Great Britain comprise coal, cotton, wool, shoddy,
yarn, cotton yarn and thread, oils, iron and steel, copper, machinery, ships,
rubber, etc.
As has been mentioned, Great Britain is the greatest buyer of the most
important Swedish exports and supplies most of the coal consumed in
Sweden.
To Denmark Sweden exports butter, paper pulp, super-phosphates,
bar-iron, iron and steel goods, unwrought timber goods, etc. In return,
Sweden imports from Denmark coffee, wheat, petroleum, other oils, and also
oilcake, hides and skins, furs, textiles, etc.
(Sweden has long bad a brisk commercial intercourse witb Denmark,
thanks chiefly to the existence of Copenhagen as a free port for
transit-merchandise.
To Norway are exported from Sweden cattle, textiles, wood pulp,
certain timber goods, iron and steel goods, machinery, etc. The imports
from that country comprise fish, hides and skins, sulphur pyrites, etc.
Next to Great Britain, France is Sweden’s greatest buyer of unwrought
timber goods, and a by no means insignificant buyer of iron and steel, as
well as wood pulp. From Erance again Sweden imports brandy, wines,
oil-cake, oils, silk fabrics, etc.
Sweden exports to Russia machinery, telephone apparatus,
superphosphates, iron and steel, metal work, furniture, etc. From Russia she
imports grain, linseed, bran, eggs, flax, rubber, mineral oils, oil-cake,
aspen wood, etc.
The principal Swedish import from Finland is unwrought timber,
which is floated over the sea, and other articles, though not to any great
extent. The exports to Finland consist chiefly of iron and steel, machinery,
books, etc.
To Holland Sweden exports considerable quantities of timber, as well
as paper pulp, pig iron, bar-iron, etc. The imports comprise coffee,
herrings, arrack, fat oils, flower bulbs, etc. -— The exports to Belgium
comprise chiefly timber, paper pulp, metals, and ore.
The exports from Sweden to the United States of America comprise,
for the most part, paper pulp and paper, partly manufactured iron goods,
and iron-ore; whilst the imports from the United States comprise cotton,
mineral oils, copper, grain, bacon, fertilizers, machinery, etc.
Trade with other countries outside Europe has advanced considerably
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