TRANSPORT AND EXPORT TIMBER TRADE. 



201 



' With Africa since 1870 transactions have been continu- 

 ously augmenting. 



1870 



1879 

 1880 



823 tons 

 3,806 

 7,646 , 



' Spain is of no importance to Norway in connection with 

 timber exports, nor will be so long as the present system 

 of taxation there is continued. 



' With Belgium business has manifested some develop- 

 ment in 1880, but the impost duty still shackles it 

 considerably. 



' It follows from a comparison of the totals of the quan- 

 tities exported during the years 1879 and 1880 that the 

 export of wood during 1880 has exceeded that of the pre- 

 ceding year by 187,546 tons which is divided in so far as 

 the different kinds of wood are concerned as follows : 



Difference in excess, 1880, 



187,546 



With the exception of the years 1871, 1872, 1874, and 

 1876, Norway has never exported so much wood as in 

 1880. The exports of late years are otherwise shown by 

 the following table : 



1880, 

 1879, 



894,816 tons. 

 706,950 



