British Commerce from 1697-1700.
Export to Russia
£58,884
Import from Russia
£112,252
Total
£171,136
Export to Sweden
£57,555
Import from Sweden
£212,094
Total
£269,649
During the same period the total
Export of England amounted to
£3,525,906
Import
£3,482,586
Total
£7,008,492
In 1716, after all the Swedish provinces in the Baltic, and on the Gulfs of Finland and Bothnia, had fallen into the hands of Peter I., the
Export to Russia was
£113,154
Import front Russia
£197,270
Total
£310,424
Export to Sweden
£24,101
Import from Sweden
£136,959
Total
£161,060
At the same time, the total of English exports and imports together reached about £10,000,000. It will be seen from these figures, when compared with those of 1697-1700, that the increase in the Russian trade is balanced by the decrease in the Swedish trade, and that what was added to the one was abstracted from the other. In 1730, the
Export to Russia was
£46,275
Import from Russia
£258,802
Total
£305,077
Fifteen years, then, after the consolidation in the meanwhile of the Muscovite settlement on the Baltic, the British trade with Russia had fallen off by £5,347. The general trade of England reaching in 1730 the sum of £16,329,001; the Russian trade amounted not yet to 1/53rd of its total value. Again, thirty years later, in 1760, the account between Great Britain and Russia stands thus: