B. — Import and Export Stafistics
= Biblin‘" pi
Year Imports Exports Balance
(in leva)
1922................ 4037662000 4326718000 292)036,006
1923... 4 .. 5,120,660,000 3,537,134,000 1,98%7526,000
1924... ..... 0 5557311000 4902226000 655,085,000
1925 (Ist 4 months)... 2,315,497,000 1,763,833,000 551,664,000
Reference : Bulletins Mensuels de la Direction Générale de Statistique du Royaume
de Bulgarie.
CZECHOSLOVAKIA
A. — Budgetary Situation
Year Revenue Expenditure Balance
(in Czechoslovak crowns)
1922 ee aT 20,269,774,000 20,495,802,000 — 226,028,000
1923 (budget)... ... 18,812,391,000 19,371,031,000 — 558,640,000
1924 (budget)...... 16,39] ,294,000 16,993,977,000 — 602,683,000
1925 (budget). . .... 15,701.917.000 15,974,169.000 — 272.252.000
Expenditure and revenue in the Czechoslovak budget for 1925 are for
the first time classified in two groups, one including the administrative or unpro-
ductive departments of the Government, the other the productive departments—
that is the enterprises operated by the State, such as railways, posts and tele-
graphs, tobacco monopoly, state forests, state mines, etc. The object of this
grouping is to facilitate the application of a law passed in 1922 for the
so-called commercialization of state enterprises, the prime object of which is to
put all the state enterprises on a self-supporting basis, necessitating, of course,
the segregation of the accounts of these enterprises from the general state
accounts. In the estimates for 1925 the “administrative” or “unproductive”
expenditure amounts to 9,57] ,000,000 crowns, while the “productive” expen-
diture amounts to 6,403,000,000 crowns. The “administrative” revenue (from
customs duties, taxes, etc.) amounts to 7 ,274,000,000 crowns, while the “pro-
ductive” revenue amounts to 8,128,000,000 crowns. These estimates indicate
that the productive government enterprises as a whole will produce a net profit
mm 1925 of 1,726,000,000 crowns, while the administrative departments will
stand the Government a net loss of 1,998,000,000 crowns, leaving a net deficit
for the year in the combined accounts of 272,000,000 crowns.
