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TURKEY AND TRIBUTARY STATES
The trade of 'Jurkey is largely with Great Britain, Austria, France, Germany, Italy and Russia. In 1910-11 it was distributed as follows : —
Imports
Exports
1 1
Imports
Exports
Great Britain . Austria-Hungary France Germany .
£T
7,504,158 6,772,497 3,477,704 3,448,347
4,752,490 1,941,487 3,896,841 1,158,854
Italy . . Russia
All other coun- tries
' Total .
3,229,001 2,475,922
10,752,527
£T 1,309,152 806,677
5,674,063
37,660,156
19,539,564
Tobacco imported and exported is not included in this table.
The value of the commercial intercourse between the whole of the Turkish Empire, in Europe and Asia (including Crete), and Great Britain during the last five years, according to the Board of Trade Returns, is shown in the following table : —
1908
Imports into U. K. from £
Turkey 5,153,149
Exports of British produce to
Turkey 7,010,188
1909
£
5,146,785
1910
1911
£> £
4,668,076 I 5,541,125
1912
£
6,417,000
7,611,054 8,636,666 9,463,349 ( 8,160,000
The principal imports from Turkey into the United Kingdom and export] to Turkey from the United Kingdom (according to Board of Trade Returus| in two years were : —
Imports from Turkey
Barley . Raisins . Angora Goats' hair Wool
Woollen goods Opium .
1910
1911
£ 491,401 383,763 704,520 267,005 270,648 291,702
£
1,397,443 526,728 404,318 327,876 266,811 274,140
Exports to Turkey
Coal, coke Cotton yarn Cottons . Woollens , Iron goads Machinery
1910
£
374,637 383,324 5,280,393 940,478 201,608 284,017
1911
£
352,708 437,341 5,792,596 704,150 274,147 375,274
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Shipping and Navigation.
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The mercantile navy of the Turkish Empire in 1911 consisted of 120 steamers of 66,878 tons, and 963 sailing vessels of 205,641 tons. At Con- stantinople in 1911 there entered and cleared 21,338 vessels of an aggregate tonnage of 20,171,065 tons. This number comprised, in the foreign trade,; 3,787 visits of sailing vessels of, in the aggregate, 234,634 tons, 1,664 steamers of 2,791,339 tons sailing regularly, and 10,681 steamers of 16,701,877 tons not sailing regularly; in the coasting trade, 2,960 sailing vessels of 62,244 tons, and 2,246 steamers of 380,971 tons. The liners of 12 navigation companies visit Constantinople (German, Russian, Austrian, Italian, Turkish, French, Greek and Egyptian, the last-named under thej British flag). Of the total tonnage entered in 1911, 8,646,189 was British, 3,205,742 Greek, 2.194,545 Austro-Hungarian, 990,385 Italian, 1,286,755 Russian, 678,208 French, 864,578 Turkish, and 770,568 German.
