COMERŢUL INTERNAŢIONAL LA DUNĂREA DE JOS DIN PERSPECTIVA UNUI VICECONSUL AMERICAN. UN RAPORT STATISTIC DIN FEBRUARIE 1863
INTERNATIONAL TRADE AT THE LOWER DANUBE FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF AN AMERICAN VICE-CONSUL. A STATISTICAL REPORT FROM FEBRUARY 1863

Summary/Abstract: This paper aims to highlight the information provided by the American vice-consul in Galaţi in a report from February 1863, identified in the National Archives of the USA in Washington County (Maryland), and yet unused by researchers. The account of the American diplomat in Moldavia and Wallachia concerns the evolution of trade and navigation in the Romanian ports on the Danube throughout the years 1837–1862. At the same time, the vice-consul W.W. Thomas Jr. tried to draw the attention of the decision-makers in the young American nation to the agricultural potential of the Romanian Principalities and the timid attempts of the authorities from the European Danubian Commission towards the modernization of the Danubian navigation. Also mentioned are the causes of the relatively small number of merchants and ships under the American flag that carried out their activities in the ports of Brăila and Galaţi. The report of the American vice-consul, reproduced here in its entirety, looks objectively upon the social, political and economic realities from Moldavia and Wallachia after the Crimean War (1853–1856).

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