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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1893 edition. Excerpt: ...thousand ponds a year. The importation of iron and steel from Russia is very small. Still the famous Russian sheet iron and certain other kinds find a market abroad. The following table gives the exports of iron from Russia. 1 l Other 1 1 1 Years. Sheet., Scrap. kmdS_ Ponds., . l, o 11 d s. 1 1 1ss1 120,300, 191,400 1 311,700, 1 1362 977,000 257,200 1 354,200, 1383 131,600 1 120,900 302,500 1 1 1ss4 144,100 1 160,100 1 305,4001 1 18s5 134,500 n 96,400, 119,700, 350,600, 1336 124,100; 108,300, 209,000 441,400 1se1 94,400, 143,600 1 124,700 l 362.100! 1 1888 477,600 60,900; 104,700 1 213,200, 1889 60.600 1 125,900 1 127,400, 313,900 1. 1890 s4,700 1 106,600 114,000 1 305,300 1 Although Russian sheet iron goes almost exclusively to the foreign markets of Great Britain, Germany and America, the manufactured iron and iron scrap goes chiefly to Persia. The following three tables show which countries chiefly participate in supplying Russia with pig iron, iron and steel. According to the customs tariff of 1891 the following duties were laid on iron and steel. Paragraph 139; cast iron in pigs, scrap and turnings: I. All kinds except those especially indicated: a. Imported by sea, 30 kopecks per poud. b. Imported by land across the western frontier, 35 kopecks per poud. II. Ferro-manganese, spiegeleisen, silico iron and chrome iron alloys, 50 kopecks per poud. Remark: These duties are not subject to alteration before January 1, 1898. Paragraph 140; I. Bar and all kinds of manufactured iron, except those mentioned below, iron blooms, puddled iron, pieces or ingots, scrap, mill bars, iron powder, 60 kopecks per poud. II. Iron rails, even if drilled or grooved, 60 kopecks per poud. III. Sheet iron up to number 25, according to the...
