| | | | |unlikely ever to be | | | | |an exporting | | | | |country. ---------+------------+----------+-------+-------+-------------------- Belgium |Bituminous | 22.8 | 4.9 | 8.9 |Belgium has high- |Coke | 3.5 | 1.1 | 0.4 |grade steam coals |Briquettes | 2.6 | 0.6 | 1.1 |and some coking | | | | |coal; beds are deep | | | | |and difficult to | | | | |mine. Its exports to | | | | |Holland and France | | | | |probably will in | | | | |future continue to | | | | |be exceeded by | | | | |imports from | | | | |Westphalia and Great | | | | |Britain. ---------+------------+----------+-------+-------+-------------------- [8] Compiled by George S. Rice. TABLE 8.--COUNTRIES IN EUROPE LARGELY DEPENDENT ON IMPORTS OF FUEL. PRODUCTION AND IMPORTS, 1913[9] Millions of metric tons -----------+----------+----------+-------+---------------------------- | Kind | | | Country | of coal |Production|Imports|Remarks (1919) -----------+----------+----------+-------+---------------------------- Holland |Bituminous| 2.0 | 12.0 |Holland, in the small | | | |Limbourg basin, has an | | | |extension of the Aix-la- | | | |Chapelle basin of Germany. | | | |The output is increasing, | | | |but as the basin is small | | | |Holland will import from | | | |Westphalia, Belgium and | | | |Great Britain or America. -----------+----------+----------+-------+---------------------------- Italy |Anthracite| 0.7 | 10. |Italy has insignificant and |and | | |poor resources in thin |Lignite | | |anthracite beds and in | | | |lignite deposits; has | | | |depended on Great Britain | | | |for imports, but now the | | | |United States is furnishing | | | |some coal. Water-power | | | |developments are large;