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- Title
Kaukokaupan verkostot rauhan ja sodan syleilyssä: Suomalaiset Itä- ja Kaakkois-Aasian siirtomaatavaramarkkinoilla 1800-luvun lopulta ensimmäisen maailmansodan vuosiin.
- Abstract
The empirical evidence from this study shows that Finnish companies had established strong import trade connections from East and Southeast Asia to Finland by the end of the 19th century. During the long years of peace that lasted until the outbreak of World War I, Finnish companies in almost all cases built their import trade based on raw rice, tea and sugar in close cooperation with European trade intermediaries -- in most cases British and German trade agents and suppliers -- which then provided connections to Rangoon, Java, etc. These intermediary connections were decisive factors in guiding the volume of imports of colonial goods to the Finnish markets before and during the World War. The long-term trade connections between Asia and Northern Europe ended or at least were significantly disturbed by the war. The trade of raw rice to Finland collapsed, as peacetime traffic to and from the Baltic Sea was no longer possible after August 1914. Despite numerous attempts, this trade was not able to continue, not only because of the hindrances to transportation, but also as a result of the different trade policy barriers that were set up by the Allied Powers and the neutral countries. On the other hand, the direct and indirect imports of tea and Russian beet sugar continued from Russia almost at a peacetime level until 1917. The breakdown of the Russian Empire eventually collapsed this trade as well. By the end of the war, almost all evidence of colonial goods imported from East and Southeast Asia had vanished from the Finnish markets.
- Publication
Faravid, 2019, Vol 47, p5
- ISSN
0356-5629
- Publication type
Article