1090
T[JRKEY AND TRIBUTARY STATES
(about 150,000Z.), are made on hand-looms, and so also nve a number of light materials for dress. The fisheries of Turkey are important ; the fisheries of the Bosphorus alone represent a value of upwards of 250,000/. The coast of the Mediterranean produces excellent sponges, the Red Sea mother-of-pearl,, and the Persian Gulf pearls.
Commerce.
All articles of import into Turkey are taxed 8 per cent, ad valorem, except tobacco and salt, which are monopolies ; there is also an export duty of 1 per cent, on native produce, except cereals, sent abroad, but of 8 per cent, if sent from one part of the empire to another. The total trade of Turkey for six years (estimates for 1896 and 1898) has been as follows :
Years
1892 1893 1894
Imports
Exports
Years
1895 1896
1898
Imports
Exports
£T 24,553,940 24,466,985 24,108,660
£T 15,370,050 15,725,542 13,262,416
£T
24,075,490 17,130,000 24,070,000
£T
13,753,805 18,448,000 1 13,750,000 .
The following has been the value of the trade for two years (March 13 to March 12) according to countries : —
Imports
Exports
Country
1
1893-94
1894-95
1893-94
1894-95
Piastres
Piastres
Piastres
Piastres
Great Britain
905,498,045
931,522,445
573,598,326
595,391,442
Austria .
516,353,625
486,296,695
132,865,218
131,698,998
France .
274,104,933
274,221,001
355,825,665
382,251,220 1
Russia ,
150,443,029
165,133,901
33,520,887
40,054,555 {
Italy .
62,448,131
65,589,206
46,985,993
47,559,109
Bulgaria
123,128,685
103,352,846
36,144,328
38,089,776
Persia .
76,158,290
70,376,500
1,719,897
1,344,009
Greece ,
42,814,503
44,452,057
23,384,116
21,827,111
Belgium
66,579,456
66,414,986
5,864,333
4,955,220
Roumania
71,488,618
75,338,085
23,866,442
19,908,444
United States
2,050,929
7,294,999
15,032,666
22,352,998
Tunis .
2,041,918
1,893,807
40,681
24,971
Servia .
6,614,693
5,859,058
6,729,556
7,358,333 '
Holland
13,795,237
16,868,403
39,683,780
33,076,778
Germany
28,170,281
30,712,513
29,466,222
27,750,998
Egypt .
68,356,273
53,961,841
—
—
Sweden .
5,293,986
5,845,833
444
—
Montenegro .
1,246,241
620,516
482,125
56,208
Samos .
30,082
15,139
—
361
Denmark
25,429
246,430
10,111
1,557,888
j Spain .
—
222
1,019,666
115,000
- Japan .
3,223,694
1,559,486
1,111
7,111
2,410,866,078
2,407,548,969
1,326,241,567
1,375,380,530 !
