THE VINE IN AUSTRIA HUNGARY. 



791 



for champagne, while the prices for the exports of the,se classes were, 

 respectively, 18, 50, and 70 florins. 



The imports and exports of wines during the last five years, 1878->82, 

 were as follows : 



*One metrical centner=100 kilograms=220.46 pounds avoirdupois. 



The origin of the wines imported to this country can not be definitely 

 given, except for the champagne which came from France, via Germany, 

 to the amount of 5,346 hectoliters in 1882 and 4,284 in 1883. 



Of the total importations of wine in 1882, 21,388 metrical centners 

 crossed the German frontier, 8,867 the Roumanian, 4,933 the Servian, 

 2,103 the Italian, 1,846 via Trieste, and 185 via Fiume and other ports. 



Of the exports 182,477 metrical centners crossed* the German fron- 

 tier, 85,938 passed out by Finme and other ports, 62,708 by Trieste, 

 37,625 passed over the Italian frontier, 13,690 the Swiss, 13,297 the 

 Eoumanian, 9,477 the Russian, and 4,994 the Servian. 



Wines to the value of about $50,000 are shipped annually from this 

 country to the United States. It is affirmed also that large quantities 

 of red wines are sent from Hungary to France to be manufactured into 

 claret, etc., and the large quantities shipped from Fiume and Trieste 

 would 'seem to give credit to the charge. 



The quantity of raisins and dried currants imported into this em- 

 pire is very considerable, amounting in 1882 to 6,991 tons, valued at 

 2,473,682 florins, on which a duty of 711,744 florins gold was paid, be- 

 ing at the rate of almost 30 per cent. They entered almost entirely by 

 the port of Trieste. 



The duties on wines imported into Austria- Hungary at present, ac- 

 cording to the general tariff law May 25, 1882, are as follows: In casks 

 or bottles, 20 florins per 100 kilograms. Italy and Roumania, however, 

 enjoy special privileges by virtue of conventional tariffs for the frontier 

 traffic, by which they pay respectively 3.20 florins and 5.26 florins per 

 100 kilograms in place of the 20 florins of the general tariff. 



Champagne pays by the general tariff 50 florins per 100 kilograms, 

 but the recent commercial convention with France reduced the duty on 

 French champagnes to 40 florins per 100 kilograms. 



The total amount of duties collected on wines in Austria-Hungary 

 156A 26 



