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 SHIPPING AND NAVIGATION

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ber 30, 1912, all franchises suppressed, and ordinary tariff rates will be henceforth applied to Portuguese exportations to Spain.

The quantities and value of wine imported into the United Kingdom from Spain were as follows in each of the last five years (Board of Trade) returns : —

1915

Quantities (gallons) Value {£.).

1916

1917

1918

1919

8,300,310 552,385

425,937

1,575,054 618,801

5,423,448 2,342,133

Besides wine, the following were the leading imports from Spain into the United Kingdom in the two years : —

191-

1919

-

191S

1919

.

M

£

£

£

Iron ore.

9,016,314

7,667.618

Orange*

»,451,<4T

8,658,008

Silrer ore

44,480

133,076

Raisins

169.4;H

m m

Pyrites. .

2,230.516

Esparto, Ac

96,093

bsmh

Zinc ore.

340,657

Onions

2,005^88

2,013,400

Quicksilver

198,040

0S4,StS

Cork.

302,697

213,759

Lead

1,766,578

1.2-.S-:

, ,

The chief British exports to Spain in 1919 were machinerv, of the value of 1,383,672/. : iron, wrought and unwrought, 2,208,497/. ; coal, 2,418,986/.; medicines and drugs, 66,412/. ; cotton goods, 449,369/. ; wooUen goods, 193,631/.

Total trade between Spain and the United Kingdom in thousands of pounds for 5 years : —

Imports from Spain into C. Kingdom Exports to Spain from U. Kingdom

25.033 5.522

22,165 4,779

£

30,649

MM

£ 34.646 11,093

37,435 19,324

Shipping and Navigation.

The merchant navy of the Kingdom contained on January 1, 1920, amers of 740,343 tons net, and 520 sailing vessels of 90,477 tons net. Bilbao and Barcelona are the chief maritime centres.

The shipping entered and cleared at Spanish ports in two years was as follows : —

—

1919

Entered : No. Tons With cargoes .... 5,060,937

In ballast 5,618 3,684,147

1

No. 7,509 7,002

Tons 3,197,973 4,791,171

Total .... 8,746,084 ! 14,511

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With cargoes. 6,700,452 ; 14,148 In ballast 1,241 503,391 1,220

7,360,060 943,519

Total .... 13,836 7,203,843 j 15.36S

8,303,569