COMMERCE
1311
The following were the values of the leading imports and exports for two years, unwrought gold and silver and coin not included : —
Textile manufactures
Corn and flour
Colonial wares
Raw textile material and yarn
Minerals, of imports mostly coal .
Metal goods, machinery, Ac. .
Live animals and animal food .
Hair, hides, and other animal pro- ducts
Metals, raw and partly wrought
Timber, wrought and unwrought .
Wood pulp, paper and paper manufactures ....
Other articles
Total
Imports Exports 1918 1018
S.343,246 233,183,776
30,404
4,3!
89,804,488
Imports 1919
Exrorts 1919
Kroner "3'., 147,000 11-2,757,000 17.'.. 133,000
281,017,000 '
16,9S2,000 5,931,000 1,003,000 3,340,000
63,362,000 288,846,000
44,232,000
131,870,000 22,376,000
104,56»,0O0 140,703,000
23,122,000 443,870,100
13,949,000 t 3S8,019,000
645,283,000 ' 155,234,000
l^.SlO.O'.e 1,350,432,603!' 2,53 < ?,968.000 1,575,697.000 <0S,517,225i., 75,024,033/.); (140,776,022/. )(S7,538,7091.)
Since Jan. 1, 1914, returns as to value of imports and exports are given by the im- porters and exporters themselves for all goods imported and for most export goods (the so-called declared value). Imports are recorded as from the country of consignment, and exports as to the country of ultimate destination.
A new Swedish tariff law came into effect December 1, 1911. It provides for a single tariff instead of the maximum and minimum tariffs till then in effect, and authorises the Government to retaliate for discrimination against Swedish products by imposing surtaxes up to 100 per cent, of duty on dutiable poods, and up to the full value of the goods in the case of articles admitted free of duty under the tariff.
A national 8wedish trade-mark was introduced (1911) by Sveriges Allmanna Handelsfbrening (General Commercial Association of Sweden). The upper half or the mark shows the three royal Swedish crowns, on a light-blue ground, and the words 'Svensk Tillverkning' (Swedish manufacture) are shown on a light-yellow ground below.
The following table shows the value of the trade with the principal countries with which Sweden deals : —
Country
Great Britain . Germany . Denmark . Norway . Finland . Russia France Switzerland Spain Italy
Netherlands . United States . Argentine Other countries
Imports Exports Imports from (1916) to (1916) lfrom(1917)
Exports to (1917)
Kronor
164,415,452
420,173,173
79,589,594i
61.13S.787:
9.068,2071
10,506,919!
2»,562,46Pi
12,539,848|
3,831,181
6,498,519
21,656,822
213,935,449,
42,001,731
89,642,488
Kronor 320,052,142
93,843,509 115.3SS.712
61,823,587, 136,076,00S|
96,593,344 3,646.806
29.257,825
61,324,510: 75.394.S06 10.7S9.9i4 97,399,150
Kronor 65,079,577,
113,422,850 51.666,605: 10,028,520 19,477,041 16,706,237 24.181,186
23,096,116 06,121,082
10,124.443 20,938,748,
Kronor 216,123,206
162.713,027 64,801,008
03,766,324 8,532,420
13,659,969 5,687.851
79,644,685
50,428,304 3,384,568
86,818,485
Imports i Exports from (1918) to (191?)
Kronor
148,730,061
447,943,669
202,S03,520
97,709,067
16,678,726
23,325,259
13,445,076
24,549,855]
2,285,676
502,620
42,030.306
82.548,470
93,538,944
Kronor
252,961,988
•202,774,426
182,27^,533
211,210,124
26,601,518
21.S8o,697
86,244, 32S
15 526,613
10,039,801
8,506,044
113.106,450
19.045.1S0
9.0S5.374
101,106 527
Total . .1.13S,566,557'1, 566,376.906 75^.010.304 1.349.551,300:1,233,310,056' 1.350.432,003
The following table shows (according to the Board of Trade returns) the
