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horticultural products. The total value of these goods was only
a little over 2 million kroner, while we imported Swedish agri-
cultural produce to a value of over 9 million kroner, principally
wheat and rye, during the same year.
Danish exports of domestic origin to Norway present a simi-
lar picture. It also consists principally of goods manufactured
in Denmark from imported raw materials or semi-manufactures.
Ships constituted 29 per cent. of the total value of this trade in
1936, motor cars assembled in Denmark from imported parts
constituted 23 per cent., while agricultural produce occupied an
insignificant place (6 per cent.).
During 1936 Finland bought Danish goods of domestic origin
to a value of 19.6 million kroner. Of this, vegetable oils, soy
meal, and oil cake constituted almost 40 per cent., ships 7 per
cent., and motor cars 17 per cent., while agricultural produce
constituted only 6 per cent.
Iceland takes some rye flour, but otherwise offers no market
for Danish agricultural produce. Danish exports of domestic
origin to Iceland during 1936 had a total value of 4.3 million
kroner, and consisted principally of industrial manufactures of
various kinds.
The situation may thus be summed up as follows: our
Northern neighbours export to us a number of products which
are principally made from domestic raw materials. Danish ex-
ports to these countries, on the other hand, consist chiefly of
goods which are either of wholly non-Danish origin, or which
are worked up in Denmark from foreign raw materials or semi-
manufactures. That part of our export trade which is based on
the produce of our own soil hardly finds any market in the other
Northern States at all. The fact that we have a considerable
transit trade is a welcome addition to the credit side of our bal-
ance of trade. Our re-exports, which had a total value of 53
million kroner in 1936, principally went to the other Northern
countries.
Our exchange of goods with our Northern neighbours thus
rests on our own need for Norwegian, Swedish, and Finnish
goods, rather than on a Northern demand for Danish goods. Den-
mark gets 86 per cent. of her imports of coniferous wood from
Sweden and Finland. Two thirds of her imports of roughly pre-
pared articles of wood, and practically the whole of her imports
of pulp, come from Norway, Sweden, and Finland. Two thirds