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IMPORTS AND EXPORTS OF DIFFERENT KINDS OF GOODS. 919
Table 130. Imports and Exports at the principal ports, in li)02.
Pörte. Total value, in Kronor. In % of the total imports and exports of the Kingdom.
Imports. Exports. Total. Imports, j Exports. Total.
Stockholm..............I 143,306,000 36.521,000 179,827,000 2887 981 20-03
Gothenburg............ 123,982,000 95,906,000 219,88s,000 2464 24-44 24 50 !
Malmö................... 56,911,000 30,441,000 87,352,0W 1127 776 9 78 i
Other ports............ 180.997.U00 229,505,000 410.502,000 35-82 58-49 45 74 I
Total 505,196,000 392,373,000 897.5M.000 100 100 flOO
having been made in the commercial statistics, which formerly for long
periods of time have given too high unit-values to several of our more
important export articles. In this way we can explain, for instance, the
decrease which certain of the later years show in the diagram on page 918.
Compared with other countries in our part of the world, the exports
of Sweden in our days are very considerable. Per inhabitant it
amounted in 1896/1900, on an average to 71 kronor a year. The corresponding
average for Europe amounts to about 60 kronor. For the German
Empire, it amounts to 70 kronor, for France to more than 90, for
Great Britain and Ireland to more than 140 kronor. Thus Sweden stands
in this case fully on a level with Germany.
The largest oommeroial cities of Sweden are Gothenburg,
Stockholm, and Malmö. The commercial exchange of each of these cities
with foreign countries in 1902 is shown by Table 130 above. Of
the entire imports of Sweden, no less than 64 % belong to these three
ports, but of the exports only 42 %. The latter circumstance is due
to the fact that our greatest export article (timber) is principally
shipped from the Norrland ports (especially Sundsvall, Hernösand,
Gefle, and Söderhamn), which, on the other hand, only in a small
degree exchange other articles with foreign countries.
Imports and Exports of different kinds of Goods.
Detailed statements in regard to the imports and exports of a great
number of goods have already been given in the preceding pages in the
treatment of the separate branches of industry of our country. What
we still have to give is essentially a review of the situation of larger
groups of goods. The most general data in this matter are given in
Table 131, p. 920 and Table 132, p. 923.
A) We will first take into consideration the groups in which
imports are predominant.
Since about 1880, this has been the case with the group of cereals,
which during the immediately preceding forty years showed an export
surplus. For nearer details in this respect, we refer to the agricultural
section of this work, pages 525, 532, etc.
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