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x. manufacturing industries of 8wedbn.
the home manufacture, the contemporaneous increase of the percentage
of sugar yielded and extracted has kept the protective duty fully
effica-ceous, for though its value has varied, yet it has never sunk below 13 u
öre per kilogr. of raw sugar (i. e. 0-8 penny or 1-6 cent per lb).
Moreover, the establishment of new factories has been facilitated by a
resolution passed in 1893, whereby any new factory situated at least 30 kilom,
(or 19 Engl, miles) from an already established one that is in working,
should be charged a lower excise for the first five years than the
factories of older standing. Four factories altogether have availed
themselves of this alleviation. Since Sept. 1, 1900, however, all these special
privileges have been done away with.
Interior of the Karpalund Sugar-Factory.
Owing to the rise of a home production of sugar, the import of that
commodity, which used to be very large, has dwindled almost away.
The consumption, however, has increased to such an extent, that
Sweden ranks now, relatively speaking, among those countries in Europe
where most sugar is used. Figures on this point, both for Sweden and
other countries, are given on pp. 154 and 156. The countries ahead of
Sweden in this particular have attained that position owing to the
extensive use of sugar for export industries. As this can hardly occur
in Sweden in the immediate future, and as any export of sugar itself
is scarcely possible because of the bounties given to export by the
larger countries (or, subsequent to the abolition of the bounties, in
any event difficult, owing to the mass-production of these countries), it
would seem as though the sugar industry in Sweden is likely to remain
about stationary. For a further extension other conditions than those
at present existing are plainly requisite.
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