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The principal exports and imports of cereals, for the years 1866 to 
1870, inclusive, were : 
EXPORTS. 
| ted6. «| 1867, | 1868: 1869. 1870. 
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Oats -..... -bushels-| 279, 795 499, 090 | 161, 543 180, 338 3, 056, 000 
Barley and malt-.do-. 145 672 2, 320 pe 0 ee ae ee 
IMPORTS. 
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Wheat -.--- bushels... | 148, 054 142, 539 | 154, 889 155, 626 152, 800 
Bloat 2... 352 do 85, 002 72, 767 93, 768 105, 160 114, 600 
ee ae do....| 3,533,717 | 2,736, 648 375,211'| 3,975,997 | 4,202, 000 
Rye-flour and 
meal .... bushels.-|- 374, 405 330, 506 | 359, 316 318, 614 382, 000 
Barley and malt.do. ; 1,763,873 | 1,537,083 | 2,317,842 | 2,914,877] 2,101,000 
The value of the principal ‘imports into Norway, in 1869, was as fol- 
lows: Animal food, 1,050,000 specie dollars; cereals, $7,384,000; coffee, 
$1,203,000; sugar, sirup, and honey, $1,119,000; brandies and spirits, 
$280,000; tobacco, $529,000; dry-goods, $2,616,000; hides and skins, : 
$518,000; coal, $749,000; salt, $577,000. The value of the principal 
exports for the same year: fish, (dried, klip, fresh herrings, &c.,) 
7,155,000 specie dollars; skins and spawn, $855,000; cod-liver oil, 
$1,183,000; lumber, $6,629,000; ice, $105,000; sulphurous ores, $232,000; 
metals, $293,000; oats, $94,000. 
The commerce of Norway with the United States appears to be on the 
increase. In 1868 the number of Norwegian vessels arriving in thé 
harbors of the United States was 170, of which the aggregate tonnage 
was 71,576; in 1869 the number was 372, and the tonnage 148,126. In 
the former year the number of Norwegian vessels departing from harbors 
of the United States was 180, of 74,428 tons; in the latter year, 347, of 
139,415 tons. 
GERMAN EXPORTS TO THE UNITED STATES. 
The statements below, relating to the commerce of this country with 
certain districts in the German Empire, are gathered from reports made 
to the Department of State by Mr. R. S. Kendall, United States consul — 
at Strasburg, and by Mr. E. Klamprecht, United States consul at Stutt- 
gart: 
EXPORTS FROM STRASBURG AND MULHAUSEN—There was, in 1871, a 
very large increase of exports to the United States from the consular dis- 
trict of Strasburg and Miilhausen, and that notwithstanding the great 
drawback to its manufactures, occasioned by siege and other ravages of 
war. But it is not probable that there was any real increase in the im- 
portation of articles manufactured in the district into the United States: 
Previous to the Franco-Prussian war large quantities of goods manu- 
factured in Strasburg and its vicinity were exported to this country 
from Paris or some other commercial center in Western France. Many 
mercantile houses in Paris were connected with manufacturing estab- 
lishments at Strasburg, from which they first transported manufactures 
to Paris, and then exported them to the United States simply as French 
