COMMERCE
808
4,720 tons value 10,900 francs ; in 1916, 30,430 tons, value 234,800 francs : in 1017, 17,000 tons, value 180,200 francs ; in 1918, 500 tons, vain? 7,500 francs ; in 1919, 4,820 ton*, value 64,050 francs. Coal production (in metric tons) : —
r m
Coal
Briquettes
Coke
Workpeople
ip'.
100
Sl4V#fM
124,460
1916
1,9c
792,350
127,146
1917
14.931,340
•
676,040
112,686
13,825,790
600
52".
112,7*7
1919
v^mjtm
2,547,890
750,890
136,375
19-20
32,413,530
2,922,000
1,800,000
167.
- aber of coal mines in 1919, 121. Number of workers below ground,
95,790; above ground, 43,884 ; total, 139.674.
In 1919, 250,570 metric tons of pig-iron were produced in 13 furnaces, as against 2,484,690 tons in 19 furnaces in 1913. In 1917, 9,630 ; in 1918, 10,540 ;in 1919, 333,657 metric tons of steel were produced. In 1917 there were produced 10,290 tons of zinc ; in 1918, 9,245 tons ; in 1919, 19,860 tons. In 1917 there were produced 22,745 tons of lead ; in 1918, 20,630 tons ; in 1919, 4,225 tons.
In 1912 there were 88 sugar manufactories, produce 250,602 tons of raw sugar; 21 refineries, output 119,125 tons: 125 distilleries, output 83,160 kilolitres of alcohol at 50° G. -L. In 192 I there were 56 ?ugar factories, for which 112.500 acres of beet were sown.
Commerce. Spkcial Commerce.
Year
Imports
Kxports Tear
Imports
Exports
1913 ' 19141
4 153,345,000 92.126.000
£ 143,073,000 1919 74.1 -.9.000 1910
209,831,155 446,858,634
£ 92,017. .<*« 348.323, 280
1 First 6 uionths.
The imports and exports for 1920 were made up as follows : —
L-ve animals ... Foodstuffs and beTeragts Raw materials . . . .
Manufsctnres
Goid and Silver (bullion and coin) .
Total .
Imports
Exports
Metric tons
1900 F:,
Metric tons ' 1000 Francs
44,909
1,984.947
8,784,775
1,131.810
16
2,648,632 5,163.144 3. IT
5,949 .
663,344
7,678,244 3,348,281
2,521,386 : 4,678,294
28 9,917
11,946,448
11,171,467 1
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