biglam/hmd_newspapers huggingface dataset:
The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1884-12-20

THE INTERNATIONAL WOOL TRADE.

The Pesther Lloyd, in the course of a series of
articles upon agriculture in Hungary, points out that
though Hungary herself is one of the few countries in
Europe which still export more wool than they
import, she does not appear in the siatistical returns
as having an excess of exports, being embodied with
Austria, in which the imports largely exceed the ex-
ports. For the last five years the imports of Austro-
Hungary have averaged 22,600 tons, while the
exports have averaged only 12,520 tons, so that there
has been an average excess of over 10,000 tons in
imports over exports. Some of this is imported
from Russia and the East, but the greater part comes
from Australia and La Plata, vid Hamburg. In Ger-
many the excess of imports over exports have been very
much larger for the last five years, for, while the latter
have averaged only 29,000 tons, the imports
have exceeded 90,000 tons, of which about
25,000 tons are imported from Australia by
way oi England, and as much from the
Argenth e Republic by way of Antwerp. The
difference between imports and exports for France has
been even greater than for Germany, the former being
144,000 tons upon the average of the last five years,
and the latter only 32,000 tons, showing an excess of
112,000 tons, the imports being chiefly from Australia,
the Argentine Republic, Uruguay, and Turkey. In
Belgium the exports are only nominal, while the imports
for the last five years have averaged rabout 50,000
tons, but ihest have consisted almost entirely of the:wools
landed at Antwerp for Germany and Austria, so that
Belgium is practically self-supporting. In Italy the
exports for the last five years have averaged only
1200 tons, while the imports have averaged 8500 tons,
and the Swiss exports have been only 900 tons, as
against imports averaging 2600 tons. The English
imports are, it need hardly be said, very much in
excess of the exports, and the only European countries
in which the balance is in favour of the exports are
Russia, Spain, Roumania, and Denmark. In Russia,
the average of imports for the last five years has been
7700 tons, the exports having averaged 24,000 tons;
while in Denmark the imports have been 1800 tons,
and the exports 4000 tons upon the average of the
past five years.