ТРГОВАЧКИ ПРОМЕТ НА ЦАРИНАРНИЦАМА ИЗМЕЂУ СРБИЈЕ И АУСТРOУГАРСКЕ 1867. ГОДИНЕ
TRADE TURNOVER IN CUSTOMS HOUSES BETWEEN SERBIA AND AUSTRIA-HUNGARY IN 1867

Summary/Abstract: In the Hungarian State Archives in Budapest, in the documents of the Hungarian royal prime minister, the author found a very contentful report of Szepesy Mihály, councillor in a section of the Hungarian ministry of finances, about the total trade turnover in all Austrian customs houses located in the state border with The Princedom of Serbia, from Sremska Mitrovica in the west, to Orsova in the east. Szepesy’s report contains reliable facts about the scope, value and kind of export, import and transit. It shows that the so-called Austrian eastern trade was positive, that the Austrian and Hungarian export, both in weight and in value, almost three times surpassed the import, but that the trade could have been even better and more extensive, if there had not been obstacles, specially the ones in traffic due to the non-regulated navigation on the Danube in Djerdap, and if the new railway had been built to simplify and speed up transport from the south to the north, from Constantinople towards Budapest and in the opposite direction. Extensive and rich in valuable and so far not sufficiently known facts, Sezepesy’s report written in the Hungarian language is presented by the author in detail, without leaving out any significant fact.

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