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Navigation and Commerce between the United States and the Netherlands, from 1814 to 1820

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The resumption of commercial relations after the termination of the wars in Europe and America was slow and uncertain. It has been stated before that American merchants perforce entered the field late. Only after the lifting of the blockade did they come in, in 1815, with eagerness to resume their pre-war business. But they found then a great number of competitors, already more or less established: the British, of course, who took advantage of a favored position in Holland, and merchants from the Hanseatic cities and Scandinavian countries, which tried to recapture the References shipping intercourse won by them as neutrals in the previous years. Even the Dutch themselves developed some activity in the reëstablishment of their national navigation. Right after the restoration of independence, in December 1813, the merchants appear to have addressed the American consul about the possibility of an admittance of neutral vessels to United States ports 1). Bourne had presumed at first, from the defective state of the blockade at that time, that a mutually advantageous trade might be carried on there by the Dutch 2), which would leave American commerce passive but would bring about a renewal of its relations with Holland.

It is necessary to state at the outset of this chapter that the quantities and amounts given in various statistical tables and quotations have been gathered from the material obtainable in contemporary publications and consular returns; that, however, in consequence of the defectiveness of statistical services, in the Netherlands as well as in the United States, the quotations used can in general not be trusted for specific facts to reflect the actual state of things which they pretend to represent. Various complaints of consular officers exhibit their inability to collect data on even the national trade movements which they had by their very commissions undertaken to register. (For instance in R. A. B. Z. Leg. Washington No. 30 etc. : the shipmasters sail without having received the necessary certificates from the consuls.) The statistical service of the United States was completely reorganized in 1820 (Keiler p. 48). Only then do its quotations become relatively trustworthy. All data collected before this year must be taken with a great deal of indulgence. If quoted here for the sake of concrete illustration, they are of use only for a construction of the general lines of the movements of navigation and commerce, under the reasonable assumption that their respective deviations from fact will on the whole agree enough to give sense to a mutual comparison. (Cf. chapter II, p, 30 , footnote 1.)

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Westermann, J.C. (1935). Navigation and Commerce between the United States and the Netherlands, from 1814 to 1820. In: The Netherlands and the United States. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-0999-2_20

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