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SHIPPING AND NAVIGATION 1139<br />
The exports of various merchandise, from which assigned revenues are<br />
derived, wore as follows, in 1898-99 and 1899-1900 (in kilos):—<br />
Salt<br />
Wines .<br />
Spirits .<br />
Cocoons.<br />
1898-99.<br />
39,478,668<br />
7,397,360<br />
151,730<br />
99,770<br />
1S99-00.<br />
35,223,513<br />
12,761,130<br />
211,787<br />
133,975<br />
Raw silk<br />
Frisons .<br />
Waste silk<br />
1898-99.<br />
. 378,107<br />
. 139,600<br />
. 99,560<br />
1899-00.<br />
443,244<br />
151,482<br />
176,905<br />
The value of the commercial intercourse between the whole of the Turkish<br />
Empire, in Europe and Asia, and Great Britain during the last five year*,<br />
according to the Board of Trade Returns, is shown in the following table :—<br />
1895 1690<br />
1897 1 1898<br />
£ j £<br />
'■ £ \ £<br />
£<br />
Imports into U. K. from<br />
Turkey . . . 5,751,537:5,316,686 6,253,209.5,018,726 5,027,997<br />
Exports of British pro- '<<br />
duce to Turkey . . 5,347,785:5,033,853 6,538,406 6,190,958 5,333,774<br />
i<br />
Among the articles of import into the United Kingdom from Turkey are<br />
wheat, 98,8932. in 1898 ; 8,1102. in 1899 ; barley, 1,293,3292. in 1898 ;<br />
977,8302. in 1899; wool and goats'hair, 1,148,6792. in 1898; 1,156,216/.<br />
in 1899 ; valonia (dye stuff), 253,3542. in 1898 ; 255,6242. in 1899 ; opium<br />
198,2222. in 1892 ; 165,4842. in 1897 ; 150,2192. in 1898 ; 201,7702. in 1899 '<br />
fruit, chiefly raisins and figs, 783,5152. in 1898 ; 1,058,3092. in 1899. ;<br />
The most important exports from Great Britain to Turkey are cotton<br />
goods, 3,817,7782. in 1898 ; 3,262,5132. in 1899 ; cotton yarn, 778,3942. in<br />
1898 ; 643,9872. in 1899 ; woollens, 399,83 52. in 1898 ; 341,0382. in 1899 ;<br />
iron, wrought and unwrought, 156,039,;. in 1898; 130,5612. in 1899;<br />
copper, wrought and. unwrought, 118,772 in 1898; 46,5842. in 1899; coal,<br />
276,0302. in 1898; 284,6152. in 1899 ; machinery, 101,7182. in 1898;<br />
105,4492. in 1899.<br />
The value of the trade at various Turkish towns in Asia and Africa in<br />
1899 was:—<br />
Towns<br />
Trebizoml:<br />
Anatolian trade<br />
Transit (Persian) trade<br />
Samsun<br />
Jaffa . . . .<br />
Aleppo (Alexandretta)<br />
Basrah .<br />
Bagdad :<br />
Europe and America<br />
India and the East .<br />
Smyrna .<br />
Imports<br />
£<br />
823,220<br />
501,510<br />
471,910<br />
390,260<br />
2,163,743<br />
1,190,168<br />
Exports<br />
1,253,476 617,740<br />
193,705 43,615<br />
2,562,885 . 3,782,781<br />
£<br />
417,800<br />
151,040<br />
541,970<br />
316,158<br />
931,002<br />
1,135,583<br />
Towns<br />
Beirut<br />
Lattakia (Syria)<br />
Erzerum .<br />
Van .<br />
Haifa' and Acre.<br />
Tripoli (African)<br />
Benghazi .<br />
Derna<br />
Imports<br />
£<br />
1,580,165<br />
73,700<br />
237,400<br />
183,200<br />
384,900 —<br />
150,249<br />
12,341<br />
1699<br />
Exports<br />
£<br />
1,051,950<br />
102,904<br />
147,900<br />
87,000<br />
12S.933<br />
410,600<br />
164,583<br />
12,558<br />
Shipping and Navigation.<br />
The mercantile navy of the Turkish Empire in 1900 consisted of 177<br />
steamers of 55,983 tons, and 2,205 sailing vessels of 141,055 tons. In 1897-98<br />
(March to February) there entered and cleared at all the ports of Turkey<br />
10.1057/9780230270305 - The Statesman's Year-Book, Edited by John Scott-Keltie<br />
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