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Scottish trade in the seventeenth century Trade with the Baltic, which had long been an importer of cheap cloth, hides and skins from Scotland (taking 200,00 skins a year in the early seventeenth century, some 40% of total exports), declined sharply after 1660, averaging only 93,000 a year. The I 690s would, however, see a revival in the Baltic trade, especially in fish. One of N.W.Germany 3.1% .......... ..................... •• 0 •••••••• • • ••• ••• 0 ••• 0 ••••••• iili· ••••••••••••••• 0 ••• Other countries' ... -:-:::::::::::::::::::-: .... 79% Percentage of ships departing from Scotland 1680 to 1686 Number of ships Total number of ships departing from Scotland 1680 to 1686 the major shifts in the Scottish economy in the seventeenth century lay in the export of grain and Norway was one of the chief markets for it, explaining why half ofall ships bound for there came from the Tay. But the fall in Norway's demand for Scottish salt after 1660 underljnes the relatively modest number leaving from the Forth. Most of the cargoes to N.W. Germany were of coal, from the collieries of the Forth. Number of ships departing from Scotland to the ML Baltic, Norway and North-West Germany 1680 to 1686, by burgh 278