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111 181)7 the geiiei'iil imports and exports, and the special imi)orts and exports (imports for consumption and ext>orts of Danish produce or manufacture) were as follows : —

' Imports,

, (General)

Inipoils, Exports, Exports, especial) (General) (Special)

1 1,000 kroner Foods substances. . 127,600 Personal and domestic. 78,600 Fuel .... 23,400 Fodder, manure, seeds, 60,900 Raw lu-oducts. . . 126,300

Total. . . 416,800

1,000 kroner 1,000 kroiici' l.OdO kroner 78,100 244,000 197,300 68,600 17,200 7,200 21,500 2,200 54,200 7,300 2,100 103,500 57,400 36,900

325,900 328,100 243,500

The principal articles of import and export, with their re- spective values, were as follows : —

Colonial goods ,

Beverages

Textile manufactures

Metals and hardware

Wood &, manufacture

Coal ....

Animals.

Pork, butter, eggs, lard

Cereals

Imports,

Imports

Exports,

1896 (General)

1890

1897

1000

1000

1000

Kroner

Ki'oner

Kroner

31 788

.39,477

11,892

5,467

7,001

2,713

42,645

50,0(55

5,384

44,268

32,406

9,041

21,598

24 212

2,670

22,138

22,413

1,610 i

3,169

. 2,531

2,444 ,

1 35,485

35,701

169,744 !

1 40,801

60,838

8,500

Exports,

1896

(Home

produce)

lOOO

Kroner

1,631

704

479

2,061

1,318

24,408

149,222

6,882

Exports,

1897 (General)

' 1000

Exports,

1S97

(Home

produce)

1000

Kroner

Kroner

14,261

1,214

3,421

641

6,558

1,150

4,908

1,072

2,024

452

2,166

_..

27,663

27,617

' 189,619

164,266

14,396

8,429

The following table shows the distribution of Danish foreign trade : —

1;

! I Countries

Imports, 1896

Imports, 1897

Export*, 1896

Exports, 1897

Kruner

(General)

Kroner

(General)

Kroner

Kroner

Germany.

126,077,000

129,301,000

57,842,000

65.737,000

United Kingdom

78,264,000

78,807,000

169,684,000

191,188,000

Sweden and Norway.

56,465,000

59,051,000

30,089,000

36,647,000 1

United States.

17,023,000

48,335,000

1,758,000

2,119,000

Rest of America

614,100

7,283,000

170,000

171,000

Russia

32,839,000

38,709,000

5,619,000

20,379,000

Holland.

8,814,000

7,844,000

299,000

725,000

Belgium ,

6,555,000

7,029,000

780,000

1,027,000

France

7,975,000

10,644,000

1,974,000

1,861,000

Danish Colonies

2,332,000

2,959,000

4,533,000

4,139,000

Free port of Cojien-

hagen.

26,810,000

1

7,541,000

1

1

1 Before 1897 the free port of Copenhagen figared In the tahles as foreign territory, but now lis tra«le is included with that of the rest of Denmark.