COMMERCE
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1,082,285 ill 1894; 1,220,000 in 1895; 1,092,000 in 189ti ; 1,064,075 in 1897 ; 1,254,000 in 1898. A large amount of Briti.sh capital has been em- ployed in developing the nitrate industry of Chile.
In the Department of Valparaiso in 1895 there were 417 industrial establishments which in that year consumed raw material valued at 20,057,573 pesos, and employed 12,616 operatives with 162 steam-engines of altogether 1,766 horse-power. The most important of these establishments were sugar refineries, gas-works, breweries, mineral and aerated water factories, carriage and cart works, saw-mills, and works for machine-making.
Commerce.
The following table shows the value of the imports and exports of Chile (special trade, including bullion and specie) for five years (in pesos of S8d.) : —
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1893
1894
1895
1896
1897
Imports Exports
Pesos
68,235,874 72,245,114
Pesos
54,483,616 72,040,420
Pesos
69,206,552 72,919,882
Pesos 74,082,805 74,359,414
Pesos
65,502,805 64,754,133,
Of the imports in 1897 the value of 49,260,796 pesos, or 75 per cent, of the whole, was sul>ject to duty ; and of the exports, 39,890,929 pesos, or 61 percent. The import duties collected in 1897 amounted to 24,716,142 pesos ; and the export duties to 16,749,714 pesos, and 1,478,790Z. sterling.
The following table shows the leading imports and exports for two years : —
Imports
1896
1897
Exports
1896
1897
Sugar
Cattle
Coal
Cottons (wliiti) . .
Quimons (Jap. cot- tons)
Sacks (empty) . .
Oil (illuminant) . .
Tocuyos (shirts). .
Cashmeres . . .
Rails (Nieles) . .
Timber
Tea
Candles ....
Iron, bar and block
Iron, galvanized. .
Rice
Woollens ....
Woollen handker- chiefs
Total ....
Pesos
5,777,357 3,843,825 5,462,954 1,763,2.50
1,755,929
1,874,054
1,388,242
800.779
1,167,120
776,891
940,657
1,011,127
1,116,691
698,011
942,449
607,5.S6
825,511
550,006
Pesos
5,983,659 2,756,000 4,122,918 1,805,417
2,131,679 2,440,209 j 1,458,090 I
010,887
1,221,018
195,400
710,247
1,046,250
1,176,-557
354,502
1,202,170
824,079
835,153 i
529,300
Nitrate ....
Iodine
Copper in bars . . Copi^er ore . . . Copper "ejes" . . Silver bar & ingot . Silver ore .... Gold in bars and
Pesos
r43,931,667 2,063,950 5,148,015 307,943 284,897 4,183,108 1,257,870
849,036 1,434,253 4,126,957 1,-535,106
315,675
437,339 1,225,355
731,241
Pesos
37,461,559
2,429,370
5,226,199
169,810
251,915
3,781,125
434,231
905,168
1,869,310
2,599,640
887,573
195,625
218,493
1,344,005
621,209
Coal
Wheat
Barley
Nuts
Hides
Shoe leather . . . Wool
Total ....
Of the nitrate exported aliout 39 per cent, goes to Germany, 17 3 to France, 133 to the Unite<l States, 11-2 to Groat Britain, and 10 9 per cent, to Helgiuni.
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