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41 1777/78 1513031 693944
47 1778/79 940325 675754
52 1779/80 1011417 816963
57 1780/81 1259910 697880
63 1781/82 1253415 756782
Trade without “generi Trade without
non soggetti” 54 “generi non soggetti”
Registro Nr. Years Importations Exportations
13 1772/73 1041231 378622
18 1773/74 852537 443451
23 1774/75 779717 418080
29 1775/76 571289 441379
35 1776/77 549548 375635
41 1777/78 1251315 295627
47 1778/79 813742 347944
52 1779/80 851986 518389
57 1780/81 872874 398328
63 1781/82 792761 509226
67 1782/83 1342618 402692
72 1783/84 1044108 333771
76 1784/85 1301496 337063
80 1785/86 1086263 336556
85 1786/87 1121437 280744
90 1787/88 1290733 168605
95 1788/89 1069101 169381
100 1789/90 1042395 241604
Source: Asv, Cinque Savi alla Mercanzia, Fondo e Serie. I wish to thank Pierre Nicolò Sofia
very much for providing me with this data.

Before discussing the data, we shall visualize them (Diagram 3).
Note: only the revenues that cover a longer time span will be visualized
here, even though these sums do not cover all in- and outgoing mer-
chandise. This is legitimized by the fact that the developments are in
both data sets run roughly parallel and we shall only discuss in the
following the specific ups and downs.

54 Only for the time span from 1772/73 to 1781/82 we do have a list of all import
and export products. In this table with a longer time span, the Venetians deduced the
generi non soggetti, which are foodstuffs (wines, oil, meats, fish), some plant based
goods, such as hemp, firewood, building materials, pitch, and finally those goods that
formed the subject of a state monopoly (in the first line, tobacco). Exempt from export
were, in addition to the former goods, the products of Venetian manufactures. See: G.
Campos, Il commercio, cit., p. 152.

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