The exports which come next in value are opium, wood-oil, hides, beans, cotton yarn and raw silk.
Handlooms and small spinTextiles ning establishments have, in the silk industry, given place to large establishments with steam looms. The production of raw silk at least tripled itself between 1875 and 1900, and the value of the silks woven in Italy, estimated in 1890 to be 2,200,000, is now, on account of the development of the export trade calculated to be almost 4,000,000.
The diminution was due to a smaller exportation of raw silk and oil.
Live-stock and agricultural products are exported; the chief imports are wood and raw silk.
Altogether raw silk and silk yarn to an annual value exceeding 1-1 millions sterling are exported from Russia.
