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 SHIPPING AND NAVIGATION — COMMUNICATIONS 809

The following table shows the

listiibution of Danish foreign trade : —

Imports (General).

Exports (General).

Coun trie*

1917

1918

1917

1918

Kroner

Kroner

Kroner

Kroner

Germany • United Kingdom

237,181,000

316,109,000

488,415,00"

807,032,000

J 17,000

51,596,000

Sweden.

137.1

236,881,000

118,146,000

180,7(0,000

Norway

47,345,000

78,705,000

1J7.722.000

United States.

214,11

37,. V

4,052.000

1,854,000

Rest of America

71,409,000

2.834,000

8,224,000

8,534,000

Holland.

17,3'J

20,125,000

2,934,000

6,644,000

France

13,5:-

4,406,000

1,896,000

2,300,000

Danish Colonies

4,397,000

5,746,000

17,961,000

12,726,000

The treaties of Commerce and Navigation between Great Britain and Denmark, made in 1661 and 1670 and confirmed in 1S14, provide for the ' most favoured nation treatment.

The quantities and the values of imports, whether subject to duty or duty-free, and of exports, always dutr-free, are verified by the Customs authorities. The countries where the goods have been bought and to which they are sold are recorded. The general trade com- prehends all imports and exports ; the special trade only imports for consumption, and ex- ports of home produce. Usually the Customs authorities easily ascertain whether imports and exports belong to the general or the special trade, but sometimes the amount of imports for home consumption is determined merely by the excess of imports overexports.

The chief imports into and domestic exports from the United Kingdom from and to Denmark in two years (Board of Trade Returns) were : —

-< Import* into U. K.

1918

1919

1

Exports to Denmark 1918

1919

Butter

Eggs. Bacon

£

771,2'.>1

2,592,033

189,853

£ 3,017,835 2,776,116; 65,803 '

£ Coal .... 2,068,546 Cottona. . | 255,319 Woollen Goods. 207,283

£ 7,021,816 6,979,1'J6 6,300,977

Total trade (Board of Trade returr

is) between Denmark and tl

ie United

Kingdom for 5 years : —

— 1916

1917 1918 1919

1920

£ Imports from Denmark to U.K. 21,942,337 Exports to Denmark from U.K. 11,442,850 *

£ £ £

17,742,421, 4,469.504 8,250,508

6,897,27S 8,383,859 34,448,171

i 1

£ 31,156,917 30,635,178

Shipping and Navigation.

On December 31, 1919, Denmark (without colonies) possessed 3,563 vessels of 524,312 registered tons in her mercantile marine, of which 514 of 332,247 tons were steamers. In 1919, 24,322 vessels of 8,007,967 tons cargo entered the Danish ports from foreign countries, and 24,400 vessel* of. 700, 060 tons cleared.

Internal Communications.

Denmark proper (exclusive of Copenhagen) has (end of 1919) 4,197 miles of road, besides 23,654 miles of by-ways. There are (1918) railways of a total length of 2,635 English miles open for traffic in the kingdom. Of