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Life – a user's manual Part II - Boksidan

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Well into the 1900s the duties was the state's most important source of income (figure 9, chart 4), but fossil<br />

fuels sailed up as the main import goods (chart 8).<br />

Extract from the<br />

duty list of 1936.<br />

The most important import goods to Sweden 1938<br />

Weight (ton/10s ton)<br />

600 000<br />

500 000<br />

400 000<br />

300 000<br />

200 000<br />

100 000<br />

0<br />

Meat and pork<br />

Fish<br />

Fresh fruit<br />

Coffe beans<br />

Oats<br />

Corn<br />

Rye<br />

Wheat<br />

Bran<br />

Copra<br />

Soy beans<br />

Linnen seeds<br />

Vegetable oil<br />

Sugar<br />

Wine<br />

Tobacco<br />

Cigarettes<br />

Oil cokies<br />

Raw phosphate<br />

Stone coal (10-ton)<br />

Coke (10-ton)<br />

Minera oils (10-ton)<br />

salt<br />

Paper<br />

Artificial fetilizer<br />

Skin<br />

Rubber<br />

Wool<br />

Cotton<br />

Nylon and similar<br />

Wool lines<br />

Cotton cloth<br />

Wool cloth<br />

Cotton cloth<br />

Clothes<br />

Shoes<br />

Iron cubes<br />

Iron rods<br />

Iron plates<br />

Iron pipes<br />

Raw cupper<br />

Tractors<br />

Electric engines<br />

Radios and similar<br />

Cars and busses…<br />

Ships (1000s SEK)<br />

Chart 8. The Swedish imports in 1938 according to Statistics Sweden (Historical Statistics of Sweden, <strong>Part</strong> 3<br />

Foreign Trade 1732-1970, SCB, 1972, Stockholm). Note that stone coal, coke and mineral oils accounted<br />

for 10's of tons instead of tons.<br />

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