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EXPORT DIRECTORY OF DENMARK The Export Directory of Denmark is published by Kraks Legat in collaboration with the Danish Ministry for Foreign Affairs and with the support of the Ministry for Commerce and Industry. The Export Directory of Denmark is published annually in an edition of over 14,000 copies, and is distributed free of charge in all parts of the world. All Danish Legations and Consulates (some 600 in all) receive a copy of this publication, the remainder of the edition being despatched on the recommendation of the said representatives, to the Chambers of Commerce, the various institutions, and, as far as possible, to the more important business firms abroad. The Export Directory of Denmark in its entirety forms a supplement to “Krak’s Directory1 vol. II, Krak’s Trade Calendar. Krak’s Directory, published by Krak’s Legat, Copenhagen, was first issued in 1770, and is the oldest directory in the world. This work, published annually in two volumes of 4000 pages, contains, besides a register of adresses of business concerns and private persons in Denmark and Iceland, a number of valuable reports relative to these countries, which has resulted in the Directory having practically become an indispensable handbook. Kraks Directory is distributed by the Ministry for Foreign Affairs to the Danish Legations and Consulates abroad.

Danish Export Trade.

quality goods in an increasing number of fields, is cal- culated to satisfy the most fastidious demands of the wide range of consumers catered for. The total population of Denmark is about 3,650,000, some 810,000 of whom live in the Capital Copenhagen, on the island of Zealand, and a similar number in the 80 market towns. Danish foreign trade. Danish merchants have from the earliest times taken an active part in the world’s trade, and as far back as in 1616 an East-Indian company was established in Co­ penhagen. This was followed by the formation of a number of other trading companies, of which the Asiatic company, founded in the year 1732, acquired the greatest importance, but was subsequently obliged to suspend its operations in 1843. The war lasting from 1807—14 practi­ cally destroyed the trade of Copenhagen for many years, and the recovery only commenced in the period 1830—40, since when the following decades have witnessed a sub- stantial and contittuous development of Danish trade. The world-embracing trading concern: The East Asiatic Company of Copenhagen was founded in the year 1897, and the share Capital of this company now stands at 50.000.000 Kroner. The company has in the course of time established a number of affiliated companies comprising shipping, ship-building and various other undertakings in connexion with forestry 'and plantation activities, in­ dustry and trade, in different parts of the world. The opening of the Copenhagen Free Port in 1894 naturally resulted in practically all transit trade moving via Copenhagen. Numerous important commercial firms and joint stock companies have their headquarters at Copenhagen, although the construction and extension of provincial ports has given rise to the establishment of comperatively large business concerns in other Danish ports.

The Kingdom of Denmark though one of the smallest countries in Europe plays a large and important part in world economy by virtue of the significance of its geographical situation as a factor in international com­ merce, and by reason of its highly developed trade. Denmark is a lowland country offering good con- ditions for agriculture, but, unlike England, France and Poland it has no coal, nor Hoes it possess the huge resources of water power of countries like Norway, Switzerland and Austria; much less oilfields like those of North America, Caucasus and Roumania. The power resources in this country represented by peat, wood for fuel, water and wind, normally furnish barely more than about 3 % of the requirements, and with respect to minerals the country is equally poor. Borings in the strata of the earth, apart from those undertaken in the rocky island of Bornholm have nowhere pierced through the chalk formation, so that Danish soil yields no iron or other metals, potash or other Chemical products of importance. Neither does the country produce cotton, oleiferous seeds, rubber, timber, tobacco etc. Notwithstanding Denmark being in a marked degree devoid of natural sources of wealth in the way of mine- ralia the Danish people have proved themselves capable °>f making up for this handicap by evolving a scientifi- cålly carried out process of amelioration applied to Da­ nish agricultural products and also to raw materials and semi-worked goods imported from countries more favour- ed from the hånd of nature. The Danish people have also, with no small measure of success, exploited thé fa- vourable geographical situation of the country, forming as it does a connecting link between several of the leading countries in the world, and a trade has been developed which, in proportion to the size of the country and its population, is second only to that of one or two other European States. The exchange of goods consequent hereupon has rendered possible a highly developed industry and trade, and the production of first