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The following table sliows the principal classes of special imports and exports and their values in 1897 : —
Imports
Gold Drachmai
Exports
Gold Drachinai
"Wheat and mesliu
30,140,636
Silk and cocoons
834,648
Yarn of woven stuffs .
20,371,281
Sponges .
1,038,300
Coal & raAv materials .
12,110,954
Currants .
31,841,759
Fish, caviar, &c.
5,166,870
Figs .
2,064,647
Raw hides
3,667,172
Tobacco .
1,910,515
Wood and timber
2,618,886
Olive oil .
4,748,023
Ores and metals
2,785,720
Olives
888,258
Sugar
3,179,461
Soap .
319,285
Live stock
1,640,540
Tanned hides
288,642
Coffee
2,754.512
Ores .
19,429,248
Rice
2,067,324
Emery
300,675
Colours
2,117,843
Wine in cask
5,701,108
Sundries .
91,621,199
Cognac
979,049
Total
Sundries .
10,389,917 80,734,074
114,761,525
Total .
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The customs revenue in 1897 amounted to 26,637,543 drachmai, against 27,348,205 drachmai in 1896. The revenue from the State monopolies in 1897 was: salt, 2,409,376 drachmai paper; petroleum, 4,862,280; matches, 1,027,832 ; playing cards, 280,076 ; total, 8,579,564 drachmai paper, against 9,252,557 in 1896.
The countries of origin are those from which the goods are imported into Greece, and the countries of destination are those to which the goods are ultimately exported. The values are determined by a special commission ap- pointed by the Ministry of Finance, and represent the official values accord- ing to a scale drawn up in 1889.
The value of the imports into the United Kingdom from Greece, and of the domestic exports from the United Kingdom to Greece in each of the last five years, according to the Board of Trade returns, was : —
—
1893
1894
1895
1896
1897
Imports into U. K,
from Greece . Exports of British
produce to Greece .
£ 1,420,167 604,905
£
1,288,175 881,379
& 1,241,406 806,328
£ 1,246,574 842,412
£ 1,638,995 833,228
The staple article of import from Greece into the United Kingdom is currants, the value of which in 1896 amounted to 744, 953(5. ; in 1897 to 1,043,646^. Other articles of import in 1897 were : — iron ore (including chrome), 266,480^. ; lead, 53,733Z. ; manganese ore, 19,535^. ; zinc ore, 16,113^. ; raisins, 24,426Z. ; sponges, 39,119Z. ; valonia, 38,012Z. ; silver ore, 40,439Z. Of the exports irom the United Kingdom to Greece in 1897, cotton goods and yarns were valued at 376,185^. ; woollens and worsteds, 86,03U. ; coal, 152,077Z. ; iron, 42,208/. ; machinery, 21,310/.
