TRADE AND INDUSTRY.
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Trade and Industry.
The trade of Russia with foreign countries has increased to an im- mense extent during the last ten years. In that period the value of the exports by the Baltic increased by 10,000,000 roubles, and the value of those by the Southern Ports and the Western land frontier nearly doubled ; while the imports increased nearly threefold by the land frontier and doubled in the Baltic ports and in the ports of the White Sea. The total value of the imports and exports of Russia, exclusive of specie, in each of the five years 1863-67, is exhibited in the subjoined table : —
Tears
Imports
Exports
Sil. roubles
£
Sil. roubles
£
1863
154,697,989
22,193,849
154,473,154
22,058,250
1864
175,312,202
20,557,765
186.745,077
26,567,970
I860
164,305,010
23,414,960
209,247,777
29,892,898
1866
178,175,605
25,453,658
194,838,184
27,834,026
1867
232,791,108
33,255,872
207,606,686
29,658,098
The imports of Russia on the average of the two years 1866-67 came from the following countries : —
^P ^ 01 * troubles
Per cent, j
Germany ....
80,901,133
37
Great Britain .
67,340,364
31
France .
12,398,452
6
Austria .
10,604,239
5
Netherlands .
7,741,116
4
Turkey ,
5,095,877
2
Italy
4,175,938
2
United States .
3,425,375
2
Other countries
24,840,104
11
The exports in the same period went to the following countries :
Exports to
Value Sil. roubles
Per cent.
Great Britain ....
104,767,571
52
Germany
29,543,294
15
France . .
17,322,616
9
Turkey .
7,565,899
4
Austria .
6,640,250
3
Netherlands .
6.280,845
3
Italy . .
4,877,924
2
United States .
1,348,032
1
Other countries
22,876,004
11
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