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FRANCE
Year
'■"e^lCr"" «'"">i=^«'»
Tonnage Steamers
Tonnage
Value of products
1907 19(H 19l>9
152,144 28.425 156,734 ' 29,712 159,899 29,598
195,307 241 199,732 268 196,707 269
32,578 33,223 35,807
Francs 123,951,607 129,646,083 134,865,728
Statistics of the French cod fisheries at Iceland, in the North Sea, and at Newfonndland, are given as follows for 1909 : —
Produce
Value of
Cod
Tons
2,882 11,775
348 291
6,755 52,220
Oil
Barrels 4,006 27 1,937
produce
No.
Iceland . . .123 North Sea . . ; 49 Newfoundland . ; 224
Tons
13.606
368
42,265
1,000 Franrs 7,230 206 18,007
Totals . . 396
56,239
9,985 64,286
5,970
25,443
The chief produce of the inshore fisheries, in weight aiul value, in 1909 \vas as follows : —
—
Tons
31,888
9,530
31,539
3,275
1,000 Francs
Tunny fish.' '. Lobsters . ' .
Oysters i . ! Mussels
Tons
1,000 Francs
Herring Mackerel hiardiues
Anchovies and Sprats
7,451 6,379
18,550
1,172
6,458 1.231
227,485,952 5,357
(1,000 gals.)
4,208
3,093
607
699
1 Pieces.
Commerce.
In French statistics General Trade includes all goods entering or leaving France, while Special Trade includes only imports for home use and exports of French origin.
The Commission Permanente des Valeurs annually determines the values (called actual values) which represent the average prices of the different articles in the Customs list 'luring the year. Tlie values fixed at the end of one year and applied to that year retro- spectively, arc applied also during the following year, at the end of which the provisional results thus obtained are revised according to new values definitely fixed by the Com- mission. Thus each year there are published first the provisional and later the definitive commercial statistics. The customs entries show the country of origin of imports and that of ultimate destination of exports. For five years (provisional for 1912) the values were : —
ommerce
Special Cc
Years
General C
mimerce i
Imports
Exports
l,(i(lOZ.
Imports
i.oooj.
Exports
1,(100/.
1 ,000?.
1908
287,216
264,812
225,620
202,028
1909
314,260
299.292
249,844
228,724
1910
364,000
324,000
286,933
249,352
1911
392,396
320,488
322,633
243,094
1912
—
—
318,034
265,454
1 Excluding postal packets.
