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 PRODUCTION AND INDUSTRY — COMMERCE

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.,^^., 62,411 distilleries, which produced 25,439,326 gallons of alcohol; 23 active sugar factories employing 19,384 workpeople, and yielding 347,445 metric tons of sugar. The number of tobacco manufactories (tobacco manufacturing being a State monopoly) was (in 1911) 22, occupying 20,341 workpeople and producing 602 million cigars and 2,564 million cigarettes. The number of mills (including Croatia and Slavonia) was (1906) 20,726, of which 2,040 were steam-mills, 'l83 mills driven by steam and water, 16,590 water-mills 562 motor mills, 700 wind-mills, and 651 tread-mills.

Commerce.

The special commerce of Hungary for five years was as follows (in thousands of pounds sterling.) : —

—

1907

1,000/.

68,844

67,418

190S

1909

1,000/.

75,308 70,842

1910 1 1911

1

Imports. Exports.

1,000/.

64,984

66,019

1,000/. i 1,000/.

77,184 ; 86,755 71,531 76,270

Chief imports and exports (in thousands of crowns) : —

Imports

Cottons

WooUeus

Ijeather, prepared. . . Coal ... ....

Semi-woollen goods. .

Cotton yarn

Leather shoes and hoots

Rice in liusk

Knitted cotton goods. Clothes (for men). . . Fine fnrnitnrc of -wood. (Under) linen. . ..

1910 194,534

1911 1

203,062 :

116,616

102,033

68,710

78,043 1

42,073

54,639 '

29,347

33,098 38,48.?

36,217

26,193

30,808 '

1 23,242

24,935

1 22,990

22,498

j 28,992

32,622 1

1 22,542

26,537

27,007

29,192

Exports

1910

Flonr(of corn). . . 214,327

Wheat 81,049

Oxen 122,456

Swine 97,456

Maize 55,821

Barley 42,175

Rye 47,692

Eggs 35,962

Oats I 28,088

Wine 40,014

Hard wood, .sawn and

hewn I 26,421

Leatlicr, prei^ared. . 26,833

1911

253,933 115,464 103,638 56,834 77,138 78,822 62,182 36,524 37,814 57,521

35,010

25,481

In Hun'-ary the values are fixed annually by a permanent commission, comprising merchants and a few representatives of industry and agriculture, with the approval of the Ministries of Finance, Commerce, Agriculture, and other authorities. In general, gross values are taken, and they are determined according to the value the goods represent at crossing of the frontier.

Of the imports in 1911, 21*84 per cent, in value were raw material, 13*59 percent, were half-manufactured, and 64-57 per cent, were manufactured; of the exports 52-13 per cent, in value were raw material, lO'lO per cent, were half- manufactured, and 37*77 per cent, manufactured. The imports into Hungarv from Austria were 1,528,454,000 crowns, or 73*41 per cent.; the exports to Austria were 1,392,421,000 crowns or 70 07 per cent, of the whole. The imports from Germany were 187,790,000 crowns (9*01 per cent ); and the exports to Germany were 127,466,000 crowns (6*96 per cent). The imports from Great Britain (mostly woollen goods, steam-vessels, and coal) were 42,406,000 crowns (204 per cent) ; and the exports to Great Britain (mostly flour, raw sugar, and barley) were 38,502,000 trowns (2*10 per cent.). Other countries having considerable trade with Hungary are Turkey, France, Switzerland, Italy, Boumania.