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of the metallurgical industries. The porcelain factories of Rbretrand and Gustavsberg and the glass factories of Kosta and Kejmyre produce wares that have achieved a high reputation in the markets of the world. Innumerable factories for the production of finished products are scattered all. oyer the countryside. Of the workmen employed in the industries of Sweden, those who reside in the country exceed in number the workmen who live in towns. The timber and wood-work industries of Sweden are of great importance. The public forests (mostly on crown-lands) have an area of 8,193,981 hectares (not including settlement and crown-farm forests amounting in 1918 to an area of 517,769), and yielded, in 1918, 5,636,240 cubic metres of timber. • In 1918 there were in Sweden 1,266 sawmills and planing mills with 40,379 workpeople who turned out sawn or planed timber to the value of 371,788,200 kronor ; 565 factories for joinery and furniture with 12,707 work- people, the output for the year being valued at 80,730,143 kronor; 108 factories for wood-pulp with 13,566 workpeople, output 228,741,807 kronor ; and 74 paper and pasteboard mills with 11,813 workpeople, output 233,930,962 kronor. The extent of some other Swedish industries in 1918 is shown in the following table : —

Branch of industry

Factories

Workpeople

Value of output

Kronor

Bar-iron and steel works

128

24,462

555,148,895

Iron and steel-goods factories. .

894

15,059

229,229,062

Mechanical workshops. ..

817

54,429

554,244,407

Wharfs and dock-yards.

108

12,708

93,98S,560

Metal-goods factories 1. ..

154

5,615

104,099,897

Htone-quarries and -dressing works.

137

3,729

S, 527.596

Brick works. ..

245

8,775

52,105. S57

Flour and grain mills. ..

741

2,786

149,622,788

Malt-liquor breweries. ..

302

4,766

46,153,549

Tobacco factories ....

17

4,596

108,168,009

Dairies.

974

2,726

70,877,039

Margarine factories

12

198

8,8*0,789

Cotton-spinning and -weaving works.

65

8,886

40,720,828

Wool-spinning and -weaving works.

114

9,1*8

104,822,269

Needle-works. . ..

143

7,704

88,500,719

Tanneries.

162

2,449

1U7.035.624

Shoe factories. .

101

7,068

136,429,109

Match factories. . ..

V.l

7,893

46,777,061

Other chemical industry works.

146

♦,2*1

98,562,784

Klectric-power work. ..

366

3,259

74,1 85.97S

1 Manufacture of metnls other than iron.

In 1918, 289,113 men, 50,516 women, 34,980 boys, and 10,671 girls (under 18 years of age) were employed in factories.

Commerce.

The total customs-duties levied in 1918 amounted to 37,248,413 krouor, In 1919 to 100,899,715 kronor, and in 1920 to 146,053,125 kronor.

The imports and exports of Sweden, unwrought gold and silver and coin not included, have been as follows (18 "16 kronor = £1) : —

-

1916

1917

1918

1919 1920 1

Imports Exports

£

62,745,988 S5.703.574

£

41,773,733 76,465,387

£

68,517,225 75,024,083

i 10,770,022 87,688,709

£

187,415,833 127,421,500

i Provisional