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T[JRKEY AND TRIBUTARY STATES

(about 150,000Z.), are made on hand-looms, and so also nve a number of light materials for dress. The fisheries of Turkey are important ; the fisheries of the Bosphorus alone represent a value of upwards of 250,000/. The coast of the Mediterranean produces excellent sponges, the Red Sea mother-of-pearl,, and the Persian Gulf pearls.

Commerce.

All articles of import into Turkey are taxed 8 per cent, ad valorem, except tobacco and salt, which are monopolies ; there is also an export duty of 1 per cent, on native produce, except cereals, sent abroad, but of 8 per cent, if sent from one part of the empire to another. The total trade of Turkey for six years (estimates for 1896 and 1898) has been as follows :

Years

1892 1893 1894

Imports

Exports

Years

1895 1896

1898

Imports

Exports

£T 24,553,940 24,466,985 24,108,660

£T 15,370,050 15,725,542 13,262,416

£T

24,075,490 17,130,000 24,070,000

£T

13,753,805 18,448,000 1 13,750,000.

The following has been the value of the trade for two years (March 13 to March 12) according to countries : —

Imports

Exports

Country

1

1893-94

1894-95

1893-94

1894-95

Piastres

Piastres

Piastres

Piastres

Great Britain

905,498,045

931,522,445

573,598,326

595,391,442

Austria.

516,353,625

486,296,695

132,865,218

131,698,998

France.

274,104,933

274,221,001

355,825,665

382,251,220 1

Russia ,

150,443,029

165,133,901

33,520,887

40,054,555 {

Italy.

62,448,131

65,589,206

46,985,993

47,559,109

Bulgaria

123,128,685

103,352,846

36,144,328

38,089,776

Persia.

76,158,290

70,376,500

1,719,897

1,344,009

Greece ,

42,814,503

44,452,057

23,384,116

21,827,111

Belgium

66,579,456

66,414,986

5,864,333

4,955,220

Roumania

71,488,618

75,338,085

23,866,442

19,908,444

United States

2,050,929

7,294,999

15,032,666

22,352,998

Tunis.

2,041,918

1,893,807

40,681

24,971

Servia.

6,614,693

5,859,058

6,729,556

7,358,333 '

Holland

13,795,237

16,868,403

39,683,780

33,076,778

Germany

28,170,281

30,712,513

29,466,222

27,750,998

Egypt.

68,356,273

53,961,841

—

—

Sweden.

5,293,986

5,845,833

444

—

Montenegro.

1,246,241

620,516

482,125

56,208

Samos.

30,082

15,139

—

361

Denmark

25,429

246,430

10,111

1,557,888

j Spain.

—

222

1,019,666

115,000


 * Japan.

3,223,694

1,559,486

1,111

7,111

2,410,866,078

2,407,548,969

1,326,241,567

1,375,380,530 !