SHIPPING AND NAVIGATION — COMMUNICATIONS 809
The following table shows the
listiibution of Danish foreign trade : —
Imports (General).
Exports (General).
Coun trie*
1917
1918
1917
1918
Kroner
Kroner
Kroner
Kroner
Germany • United Kingdom
237,181,000
316,109,000
488,415,00"
807,032,000
J 17,000
51,596,000
Sweden .
137.1
236,881,000
118,146,000
180,7(0,000
Norway
47,345,000
78,705,000
1J7.722.000
United States .
214,11
37,. V
4,052.000
1,854,000
Rest of America
71,409,000
2.834,000
8,224,000
8,534,000
Holland .
17,3'J
20,125,000
2,934,000
6,644,000
France
13,5:-
4,406,000
1,896,000
2,300,000
Danish Colonies
4,397,000
5,746,000
17,961,000
12,726,000
The treaties of Commerce and Navigation between Great Britain and Denmark, made in 1661 and 1670 and confirmed in 1S14, provide for the ' most favoured nation treatment.
The quantities and the values of imports, whether subject to duty or duty-free, and of exports, always dutr-free, are verified by the Customs authorities. The countries where the goods have been bought and to which they are sold are recorded. The general trade com- prehends all imports and exports ; the special trade only imports for consumption, and ex- ports of home produce. Usually the Customs authorities easily ascertain whether imports and exports belong to the general or the special trade, but sometimes the amount of imports for home consumption is determined merely by the excess of imports overexports.
The chief imports into and domestic exports from the United Kingdom from and to Denmark in two years (Board of Trade Returns) were : —
-< Import* into U. K.
1918
1919
1
Exports to Denmark 1918
1919
Butter
Eggs . Bacon
£
771,2'.>1
2,592,033
189,853
£ 3,017,835 2,776,116; 65,803 '
£ Coal .... 2,068,546 Cottona . . | 255,319 Woollen Goods . 207,283
£ 7,021,816 6,979,1'J6 6,300,977
Total trade (Board of Trade returr
is) between Denmark and tl
ie United
Kingdom for 5 years : —
— 1916
1917 1918 1919
1920
£ Imports from Denmark to U.K. 21,942,337 Exports to Denmark from U.K. 11,442,850 *
£ £ £
17,742,421, 4,469.504 8,250,508
6,897,27S 8,383,859 34,448,171
i 1
£ 31,156,917 30,635,178
Shipping and Navigation.
On December 31, 1919, Denmark (without colonies) possessed 3,563 vessels of 524,312 registered tons in her mercantile marine, of which 514 of 332,247 tons were steamers. In 1919, 24,322 vessels of 8,007,967 tons cargo entered the Danish ports from foreign countries, and 24,400 vessel* of. 700, 060 tons cleared.
Internal Communications.
Denmark proper (exclusive of Copenhagen) has (end of 1919) 4,197 miles of road, besides 23,654 miles of by-ways. There are (1918) railways of a total length of 2,635 English miles open for traffic in the kingdom. Of
