SHIPPING AND COMMUNICATIONS In 1919 the chief imports and exports were as follows : —
1219
Classes.
Live stock .... A Uinentary a.umal product ■
■lentary animal product* . rticles thereof
Pars
Wool and hair,an>l manufacture* I Animal waste and varioua animal sub- stances
Silk and manufacta- Cereals and cereal by-products Vegetables, flours, seeds, and )•!.-. VejietaVile oils ....
. Colonial fruits and food-dun's Sugar and manufactures thereof . Trees, timber, and manufactures thereof | e fibres, and manufactures
tnereof
Ready-made clothes ....
Paper
Celluloid ......
Rubber, gutta-percha, vegetable juices !
Mineral water and salt.
Earth, stones, and products thereof
Glass
Petroleum and bitumen
i fact ores thereof, and mineral products ....
Machine-
Vehicles
Shore boats
Clocks and watches .... Musical instruments ....
Toys
Chemical products and drugs
Perfumery
Paints and varnish .... Explosives
Total
i.<.:4i
10,101
•J. 7-4
7,112
11
1,810
i.ois
26.191
1,3»3
4
24
S
18
6,253
150
009
,347
■ ■ 19,9»,«4»
187,3- 93.3 =
Kim m
106,31!
15.1 :
4/63.77"
3
6S1
656
10
4!2
7 44. "14
2,5<16
- 15.317.037
81,322
O^OM Ml 90,158 M 101
«J, 188,778
3S4.047
1 16,000
Total trade between Rumania and United Kingdom for five years (Board of Trade Returns) : —
1916
1917
Imports from Rumania to U. Kingdom . Exports to Rumania from U. Kingdom .
45,522 701,04©!
r ..'*".0«: 7,121,;-
Shipping and Communications.
In 1919 the merchant navy of Rumania consisted ot 158 vessels of 71,158 tons, including 17 steamers of 29,441 tons. Xumber of vessels entering Rumanian ports in 1919 was 10,546 of 2,991,095 tons.
The European Commission of the Danube, called into being in 1856, consisted before the war of * delegates, one representing each of the following powers : Austria-Hungary, France. Germany, Great Britain, Italy, Rumania, Russia, *nd Turkey. By article 340 of the