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IMPORTS TO NORWAY FROM U. K., GERMANY, SWEDEN AND RUSSIA.
Great Britain' and Ireland;
Germany;
Sweden;
Russia.
EXPORTS FROM NORWAY TO U. K„ GERMANY, SWEDEN AND SPAIN.
Great Britain and Ireland;
Germany;
Sweden;
customs tarif in France; for owing to this, our export of timber
to that country, which, since the twenties, was of great importance
(see page 413), has been greatly reduced. In 1866 we still exported
14 million cubic feet of timber to France (value 7.7 million
kroner), but in 1898 only 4 million cubic feet (2.2 million kroner).
-— The export of timber to Holland which, during the first half
of the 19th century and even up to the beginning of the seventies
generally amounted to about 7 or 10 million cubic feet, amounted,
in 1898, to only 6.6 million cubic feet; but as it now chiefly;
consists of sawn or dressed goods, while in former times it consisted
mainly of rough-hewn timber, the value is not much less
than it was in 1874, and is even larger than it was 50 or 60
years ago (in 1846, 1.7 million kroner, in 1874, 4.2 million kroner,
and in 1898, 3.6 million kroner).
Our trade with the United States, particularly as regards imports,
and with Belgium, exhibits an especially marked increase.
With regard to the chief articles of importation, we may
mention that pf the cereals imported, about half comes direct
from Eussia (chiefly from the ports on the Black Sea), rather more
than one fourth from Germany (to a certain extent indirectly from
Eussia) and the rest phiefly from the United States, Denmark
and Eoumania. Textile goods are chiefly imported from Germany
(especially woollen goods) and Great Britain (chiefly cotton and
woollen goods). Of the groceries rather more than half comes from
Germany, and some from the Netherlands, Great Britain, etc.;
coal almost exclusively from Great Britain; manufactured and
unmanufactured metals chiefly from Great Britain, Germany, Sweden,
Belgium and Holland; steamships chiefly from Great Britain;
machinery chiefly from Germany, Great Britain and Sweden; meat
and bacon from Great Britain, Sweden, the United States, Denmark,
etc.; wine chiefly from Germany, Spain, France and Portugal.
As far as the exports are concerned, more than half the
timber (in 1898 67 %) goes to Great Britain" and Ireland. Belgium
and Holland, in 1898, received 9 % each, Australia 7 %, France
and Germany each 5 °/°> and South Africa 27a °/o of our exported
timber. Of wood-pulp two thirds go to the United Kingdom and
the remainder chiefly to France and Belgium. Of the fish products
(in 1898) 23 °/6 went to Germany, 19 % to Sweden, (chiefly herring),
16 % to Spain (klipfisk), 13 % to Great Britain and Ireland,
7 % to Holland, 6% to Italy, 47s % to the Eussian ports on the