SHIPPING AND NAVIGATION
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ber 30, 1912, all franchises suppressed, and ordinary tariff rates will be henceforth applied to Portuguese exportations to Spain.
The quantities and value of wine imported into the United Kingdom from Spain were as follows in each of the last five years (Board of Trade) returns : —
1915
Quantities (gallons) Value {£.).
1916
1917
1918
1919
8,300,310 552,385
425,937
1,575,054 618,801
5,423,448 2,342,133
Besides wine, the following were the leading imports from Spain into the United Kingdom in the two years : —
191-
1919
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191S
1919
.
M
£
£
£
Iron ore .
9,016,314
7,667.618
Orange*
»,451,<4T
8,658,008
Silrer ore
44,480
133,076
Raisins
169.4;H
m m
Pyrites . .
2,230.516
Esparto, Ac
96,093
bsmh
Zinc ore .
340,657
Onions
2,005^88
2,013,400
Quicksilver
198,040
0S4,StS
Cork .
302,697
213,759
Lead
1,766,578
1.2-.S-:
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The chief British exports to Spain in 1919 were machinerv, of the value of 1,383,672/. : iron, wrought and unwrought, 2,208,497/. ; coal, 2,418,986/.; medicines and drugs, 66,412/. ; cotton goods, 449,369/. ; wooUen goods, 193,631/.
Total trade between Spain and the United Kingdom in thousands of pounds for 5 years : —
Imports from Spain into C. Kingdom Exports to Spain from U. Kingdom
25.033 5.522
22,165 4,779
£
30,649
MM
£ 34.646 11,093
37,435 19,324
Shipping and Navigation.
The merchant navy of the Kingdom contained on January 1, 1920, amers of 740,343 tons net, and 520 sailing vessels of 90,477 tons net. Bilbao and Barcelona are the chief maritime centres.
The shipping entered and cleared at Spanish ports in two years was as follows : —
—
1919
Entered : No. Tons With cargoes .... 5,060,937
In ballast 5,618 3,684,147
1
No. 7,509 7,002
Tons 3,197,973 4,791,171
Total .... 8,746,084 ! 14,511
• .144
With cargoes . 6,700,452 ; 14,148 In ballast 1,241 503,391 1,220
7,360,060 943,519
Total .... 13,836 7,203,843 j 15.36S
8,303,569
