Spanish Agricultural Trade. 



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Import-permits will not be granted for the exportation of 

 mixtures produced from various kinds of corn. Meal from 

 hard wheat, or mixtures from soft and hard wheats, must 

 always be declared as such, and are treated exceptionally. 



Every holder of an import-permit is empowered, either, [a] 

 within six months to import without payment of duty such a 

 quantity of the class of corn specified as corresponds to the 

 customs value noted on the document ; or {b) after a delay of 

 four months, and within the six months thereafter following, 

 to pay in the import-permit, instead of cash, in discharge of 

 the customs duties on certain specified goods mentioned 

 below. No direct money payment wall be made to the holder 

 of the permit. 



The goods alluded to in the last paragraph include certain 

 kinds of timber, fruits from the tropics and warmer temperate 

 regions, spices, rice, tea, coffee, cocoa, shell-fish, salted 

 herrings, olive-oil, cotton-seed oil, blubber, mineral-oils, etc. 



Spanish Trade in Agricultural Produce. 



The total value of the export of merchandise from Spain 

 amounted in 1896 to ;£"38, 727,400, whilst the imports 

 were ^33,699,300, the principal articles of commerce being 

 metals (in ore and manufactured), wine, fruit, cotton, coal, 

 timber, tobacco, and wheat. The countries from which the 

 largest amounts of goods — so far as regards value — are 

 imported are France, Great Britain, the Spanish West 

 Indies, and the United States, though some trade is carried on 

 with other countries of the European continent. The export 

 trade is, for the most part, to the Spanish West Indies, 

 France, and Great Britain, which absorb over three-fourths 

 of the outward trade of Spain. 



About a quarter of this trade may be classed as agri- 

 cultural. The value of the animals of all kinds exported 

 amounted to 1,089,700, and the imports to £g2'j,']Oo. The 

 number of cattle exported was 40,000, and of sheep 

 224,000, together with 53,500 horses, asses, and mules. 

 This trade is principally carried on with France and 



