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XI. COMMERCE! OF SWEDEN.
this import amounted to 37 million kronor, but has earlier been
about ten or twenty million kronor higher. Thus our home factories
have increased their capacity to manufacture for the needs of the
country. At one time, there was a rather considerable export of textiles
to Norway, which has in some degree decreased on account of the
abolishment, in 1897, of the Swedish-Norwegian Commerce Treaty (see p. 190). —
Of the import of 1902, about 4-51 million kronor was pure- and
cotton-silk fabrics, 11-6 9 million woolen fabrics, 6 21 million cotton fabrics,
2-26 million linen, hemp, and jute fabrics, and 12-73 diverse goods.
In 1902, hides and fUrs to a value of more than 16-61 million
kronor were imported, and for about 1 ’/» million kronor of other
animal substances (not eatables), besides 6-82 million kronor of
fertilizers. Unprepared hides to a value of 4’67 million kronor were
exported; while the export of other goods of this class was slight. The
import of articles manufactured from hides, furs, hair, bone, horn, etc.,
amounted to 2-45 million kronor, but the export was insignificant.
Oils, tallow, rubber, and similar substances are collected in our
statistics in one group, the total import of which amounts to nearly
35 million kronor, 10-5 8 million of which are for kerosine and petroleum,
for other oils 10’26 million, and for other articles of this class 13"a3
million kronor. The export was slight; only that of tar rising to 0-6s
million kronor. The import of manufactured article* of the aforesaid
kind amounted to over 3 million kronor, and the export to somewhat
more than half that sum.
Colours and paints amount to 6 7* million kronor in import,
while the export is hardly worth mentioning. The same is the case
with diverse substances from the vegetable kingdom (cork, seeds, etc.),
the import of which amounts to as much as 20 or 21 million kronor,
while the export is only 8/s million. For about 3 2/a million kronor
of articles manufactured from such substances were imported, while the
export amounted only to s/s million.
Of minerals Sweden now exports considerable quantities, but the
import is, nevertheless, by far predominant, since it includes our greatest
import-article, coal, which annually costs our country a sam of 60
million kronor in purchase-money. (Concerning the possibility of
making savings in this respect by our peat-mosses, see p. 848). Large
quantities of salt are also imported, which necessary our country entirely
lacks. Altogether the import within this group embraced in 1902 a
value of 78 million kronor, while the export stopped at 23 million. The
export embraced principally unwrought stone (2-ai million kronor),
cement (0-51 million kronor), and especially’iron ore (14-o 1 million kronor),
as well as zinc and other ores (together nearly 2 million kronor). It is
to be noted that the exports of iron ore surely will increase
considerably in the immediate future, owing to the recent opening of the great
railway line from the Kirunavara ore-field to the Atlantic.
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