TRADE AND INDUSTRY.

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Trade and Industry.

The trade of Russia with foreign countries has increased to an im- mense extent during the last ten years. In that period the value of the exports by the Baltic increased by 10,000,000 roubles, and the value of those by the Southern Ports and the Western land frontier nearly doubled ; while the imports increased nearly threefold by the land frontier and doubled in the Baltic ports and in the ports of the White Sea. The total value of the imports and exports of Russia, exclusive of specie, in each of the five years 1863-67, is exhibited in the subjoined table : —

Tears

Imports

Exports

Sil. roubles

£

Sil. roubles

£

1863

154,697,989

22,193,849

154,473,154

22,058,250

1864

175,312,202

20,557,765

186.745,077

26,567,970

I860

164,305,010

23,414,960

209,247,777

29,892,898

1866

178,175,605

25,453,658

194,838,184

27,834,026

1867

232,791,108

33,255,872

207,606,686

29,658,098

The imports of Russia on the average of the two years 1866-67 came from the following countries : —

^P ^ 01 * troubles

Per cent, j

Germany ....

80,901,133

37

Great Britain .

67,340,364

31

France .

12,398,452

6

Austria .

10,604,239

5

Netherlands .

7,741,116

4

Turkey ,

5,095,877

2

Italy

4,175,938

2

United States .

3,425,375

2

Other countries

24,840,104

11

The exports in the same period went to the following countries :

Exports to

Value Sil. roubles

Per cent.

Great Britain ....

104,767,571

52

Germany

29,543,294

15

France . .

17,322,616

9

Turkey .

7,565,899

4

Austria .

6,640,250

3

Netherlands .

6.280,845

3

Italy . .

4,877,924

2

United States .

1,348,032

1

Other countries

22,876,004

11

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