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viii. commerce.
Table 103. Value in kronor of Imports and Exports per Inhabitant,
for 1912.
Kronor per inhab.
Imports Exports Total
Sweden.................. 142 136 278
Norway.................. 223 138 au
Denmark.................. 264 214 478
German Empire............... 147 123 270
France ................... 150 122 272
Great Britain and Ireland.......... 265 167 432
Russia................... 19 21 40
Europe.................. 111 87 198
position as against the other countries situated in the same continent; she
stands, for example, on a level with the German Empire.
Imports and Exports of Various Wares.
Detailed particulars as to the imports and exports of various special
wares have already been given in the preceding pages, when dealing with
particular branches of industry in Sweden. What now remains, chiefly,
is to give a survey of the situation for goods considered by larger groups.
The accompanying tables given provide the most general data.
A) We shall first consider such groups as show an excess of imports
over exports.
Since about 1880, this has been the case with cereals and cereal
products, of which there had been an excess of exports during the preceding
forty years. For detailed information, reference should be made to the
special section under Agriculture.
A class of merchandise that has always shown an excess of imports is
colonial wares, of which we imported to a value of 60 million kronor
in 1912, while the exports were insignificant. The most important article
within this group is coffee, of which, next to coal, we import more than
of anything else. Figures dealing with the consumption of coffee (which
is the same as the import) have already been given for earlier and more
recent times. In the year 1912, the total value of the coffee imported
amounted to 30-69 million kronor. Next to coffee comes tobacco, raw and
manufactured, (11-63 millions), which commodity has also received a more
detailed consideration in the foregoing pages. Sugar, which was formerly
imported to a value of some 10 million kronor a year, has of recent years
been manufactured in sufficient quantities at home, but golden syrup, on
the contrary, has been relatively largely imported (2-5 millions). — Of
other colonial wares the greatest import occurred in 1912, to the values
indicated: rice, 3-10 million kronor; cocoa and chocolate, 2-09 million
kronor; tea, 0-62 million kronor; cardamom, 0-59 million kronor; pepper, 0-36
million kronor; cinnamon, 0-18 million kronor, etc.
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