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Flour and Wheat Trade in European Countries and the Levant
Flour and Wheat Trade in European Countries and the Levant Author:United States. Dept. of Labor General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1909 Original Publisher: Govt. Print. Off. Description: At head of title: Department of Commerce and Labor. Bureau of Manufactures. John M. Carson, chief. Subjects: Flour industry Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there ma... more »y be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: BELGIUM. EFFECT OF CUSTOMS DUTY -- IMPORTS, EXPORTS, AND HOME CONSUMPTION. By legislation in 1895, Belgium dealt a severe blow to the American miller and farmer when, on July 12 of that year, a duty of 9 francs (38.6 cents) per 100kilos (220.46 pounds) was imposed on flour. Previous to that time American mills had built up in Belgium a trade amounting to several hundred thousand barrels annually. It fell off rapidly as a result of the legislation favoring the building of mills in Belgium, until in recent years 6,000 barrels represent about the share of American mills in the annual flour import trade of that country. This loss of trade in Belgium is not the only unfavorable result of the law, for under it the Belgian mills have been enabled to go more widely into foreign fields and to displace trade of American mills heretofore established. Whereas Belgium exported but a trifle over 130,000 barrels of flour in 1896, the foreign trade of her mills has increased to an average of over 600,000 barrels per year for the past five years. Her net imports of the raw material (wheat), for home consumption, which were well under 40,000,000 bushels a year in 1896, are in recent years quite above 50,000,000 bushels. Thus the manufacturing of the increase of 10,000,000 bushels of wheat, equaling 2,200,000 barrels of flour annually, was transferred from American mills, where it might fairly be assumed it would have been done in large part had n...« less