PRODUCTION AND INDUSTRY — COMMERCE
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.,^^. , 62,411 distilleries, which produced 25,439,326 gallons of alcohol; 23 active sugar factories employing 19,384 workpeople, and yielding 347,445 metric tons of sugar. The number of tobacco manufactories (tobacco manufacturing being a State monopoly) was (in 1911) 22, occupying 20,341 workpeople and producing 602 million cigars and 2,564 million cigarettes. The number of mills (including Croatia and Slavonia) was (1906) 20,726, of which 2,040 were steam-mills, 'l83 mills driven by steam and water, 16,590 water-mills 562 motor mills, 700 wind-mills, and 651 tread-mills.
Commerce.
The special commerce of Hungary for five years was as follows (in thousands of pounds sterling.) : —
—
1907
1,000/.
68,844
67,418
190S
1909
1,000/.
75,308 70,842
1910 1 1911
1
Imports . Exports .
1,000/.
64,984
66,019
1,000/. i 1,000/.
77,184 ; 86,755 71,531 76,270
Chief imports and exports (in thousands of crowns) : —
Imports
Cottons
WooUeus
Ijeather, prepared . . . Coal ... ....
Semi-woollen goods . .
Cotton yarn
Leather shoes and hoots
Rice in liusk
Knitted cotton goods . Clothes (for men) . . . Fine fnrnitnrc of -wood . (Under) linen . . . .
1910 194,534
1911 1
203,062 :
116,616
102,033
68,710
78,043 1
42,073
54,639 '
29,347
33,098 38,48.?
36,217
26,193
30,808 '
1 23,242
24,935
1 22,990
22,498
j 28,992
32,622 1
1 22,542
26,537
27,007
29,192
Exports
1910
Flonr(of corn) . . . 214,327
Wheat 81,049
Oxen 122,456
Swine 97,456
Maize 55,821
Barley 42,175
Rye 47,692
Eggs 35,962
Oats I 28,088
Wine 40,014
Hard wood, .sawn and
hewn I 26,421
Leatlicr, prei^ared . . 26,833
1911
253,933 115,464 103,638 56,834 77,138 78,822 62,182 36,524 37,814 57,521
35,010
25,481
In Hun'-ary the values are fixed annually by a permanent commission, comprising merchants and a few representatives of industry and agriculture, with the approval of the Ministries of Finance, Commerce, Agriculture, and other authorities. In general, gross values are taken, and they are determined according to the value the goods represent at crossing of the frontier.
Of the imports in 1911, 21*84 per cent, in value were raw material, 13*59 percent, were half-manufactured, and 64-57 per cent, were manufactured; of the exports 52-13 per cent, in value were raw material, lO'lO per cent, were half- manufactured, and 37*77 per cent, manufactured. The imports into Hungarv from Austria were 1,528,454,000 crowns, or 73*41 per cent.; the exports to Austria were 1,392,421,000 crowns or 70 07 per cent, of the whole. The imports from Germany were 187,790,000 crowns (9*01 per cent ); and the exports to Germany were 127,466,000 crowns (6*96 per cent). The imports from Great Britain (mostly woollen goods, steam-vessels, and coal) were 42,406,000 crowns (204 per cent) ; and the exports to Great Britain (mostly flour, raw sugar, and barley) were 38,502,000 trowns (2*10 per cent.). Other countries having considerable trade with Hungary are Turkey, France, Switzerland, Italy, Boumania.
