COMiMERCE
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Harvey steel armouring and protection for their guns. These are lour 9 4 in. ]»ieces, coupled in turrets fore and aft, besides a quick-firing armament. Two larger ironclads are in hand, as well as two torpedo-cruisers. The cruiser Kii.rl VI. is of the Maria Theresia class improved. A torpedo-cruiser, the Zenta, has lately been launched.
The .sister second-class "ram" cruisers Kaiser Franz Josef and Kaiserin Elizabeth (about 4,050 tons) closely resemble the Kaiserin und Konigin Maria Theresia.
Commerce of the Common Customs Territory.
The special commerce of the common customs territory, including Bosnia and Herzegovina, comprising imports and exports of merchandise, but not bullion, was as follows, in millions of florins, in the years indicated : —
Years
Imports
Exports
Years
Imports
1 Exports ,
1890 1891 1892 1893
1,000,000 florins 510-7 613-7 622-6 670-7
1,000,000 florins
771-4 786-7 722-7 805-6
1894 1895 1896 1897
1,000,000 florins 700 722-5 705-8 755-3
1,000,000 florins 795-5 741-8 7740 766-2 1
The chief imports and exports (special trade) in two years were as follows (in thousands of florins) : —
Imports
1 1896
1 1897 1
Exports
1896
1897
1,000
1,000 '
1,000
1,000
florins
florins
florins
florins
C'fl'ec . . . .
31,886
26,238 :
Sugar ....
75,137
61,382
Tokrco ....
1 27,611
25,971 '
Grain
41,977
39,975
Grain ....
1 11,684
40,186
Malt
20,510
24,453 :
Cattle ....
9,4S7
11,240 ,
Cattle
22,997
20,335 i
Eg«s ....
13,027
13.359
Horses
23,841
25,174
Hides and skins
18,3-25
22,110
Eggs
39,902
43,921 '
Wine
11,763
17,978
Hides and skins
14,830
17,033 '
Coal and feul .
31,391
31,382
Feathers
10,296
9,463
Cotton ....
57,389
50,769
1 Beer
7,981
7,296
Cotton yarn
10,732
10,317
Wine
4.757
4,436
Wool ....
40,847
38,.503
Timber .
21 .006
27,289
Woollen yarn .
23,612
18,932
! Cask-staves .
11,402
9,787
Woollen goods
11,303
11,292
Sawn wooii
- >1,.515
37,770
Silk goods
14,403
14,218
Lignite .
24,321
26,857
Leather ....
18,983
•21,427
Woollen goods
18..599
18,464 1
Useful metals (excl. ut
Leather Shoes .
10,020
8,334 1
pig iron)
17.087
19,374
Leather Gloves
22,791
16,20S 1
Machinery
21,342
19,662
i
Glass-ware
24,294
22,428
For the common cnstoms territory the values are fixed annually by a permanent com- mission, comprising official and representatives of agriculture, sylviculture, trade and in- dustry. In general, net value are taken for imports and gross values for exports, and they must be determined at the crossing of the frontier. The commission has to fix them according to the countries of origin or uf destination, and only employ averages excep-
