States 
Yugoslavia *) 
Austria... 
Poland: 
RZumania*) 
Jzechoslovakia 
Hungary .. 
In regard to the per capita@ share of imports and exports Austria is not only easily first among 
che Succession States, but surpasses Germany and Italy as well, to say nothing of Russia, of course. 
These facts may enable readers to gauge the degree of advantage which they can gain from a study 
of the Export Directory. 
The importance which the various branches of industry have for foreign trade must not 
necessarily correspond to the strength in which they are represented in Austria, but certain 
inferences as to their potential foreign trade, at any rate, are permissible from such figures. The 
proportional share of the various branches of industry in the total number of labour employed in 
Austria was as follows on June 30th, 1925, according to the Wirtschaftsstatistische Jahrbuch, 1925 
of the Vienna Chamber of Labour: 
Importe Exporte 
RM RM 
3111 30:14 
26246 177:60 
46°84 3694 
28’80 29:43 
16070 17156 
79:87 75:39 
Mining, Founderies and Iron Rolling Mills 
Iron and Metallurgical Industry . 
Building and Building Materials . 
Wood Industry 0. OR 
Chemical and Rubber Industry 
Foods a 
Textile and Clothing Industry .. 
Leather, Boot and Shoe Industry . 
Paper and Paper-working Industry 
6 per cent. 
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Strength © 
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industries 
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100 per cent. 
Of the total number of work-takers 3582 per cent. were employed in Vienna in 1927, Only 
work-takers employed in enterprises which come under the Aceident Insurance Act were comprised 
in these statistics and their number was 537.270. In regard to this figure as well as respecting 
the numbers of work-takers employed in the various branches of industry, which are enumerated 
hereunder, the fact has to be kept constantly before one’s eyes that these figures refer to 
a Country with little over 6% million inhabitants and therefore show a high degree of industrial- 
isation. It is quite impossible, of course, to define exactly the branches, for whose products foreign 
interest has been manifested, as the degree of interest shown in every single article is variable 
and depends from changing economic conditions, tariff modifications, the making of most-favoured 
nation agreements etc. The practical use of a Survey bestowing attention on every detail would, 
besides, be nil or almost So, because every businessman is solving for himself the question in which 
articles he should take an interest. The following enumeration of the most important exporting 
industries of the country with the number of work-takers employed as an illustration of the respect- 
ive strength of these. branches is therefore neither complete nor very detailed and is intended to 
Present a general survey of the sphere in question only. 
*) Per capita share in 1923,