Fearing a considerable increase in Finnish visitors' import of alcohol from Estonia due to free movement of goods, Finland decreased its alcohol excise duty rates by 33%, and within a year alcohol-related mortality rose by 20%; 34 the most notable increase was among those in the social classes with lower income.
But tensions between the sides remain, most notably over energy and trade issues, including duties on Russian timber that prevent Finnish furniture-makers from importing wood.
Documents created some years after a number of Finnish horses had been imported to the Tori stud describe the Finnish mares obtained.
These studs were to each hold 20 mares and a smaller number of stallions, both Finnish horses and horses imported from Sweden.
When riding as a hobby emerged and became more established in Finnish cities during the 1960s, imported horses and ponies were preferred as mounts; warmblooded horses represented modern times, leisure time and wealth, while the Finnhorse was viewed as rugged and unsophisticated.
Finland has no domestic fossil fuel reserves and thus, the Finnish energy sector relies heavily on imports: in 2015, oil, natural gas and coal constituted respectively 24, 6 and 8% of total energy consumption.
The earliest known documentation of Finnish trade in horses, both as imports and exports, dates to 1299, when Pope Gregory IX sent a letter of reprimand to the merchants of Gotland, who were selling horses to the non-Christianized Finns.
Until the early 1980's, domestic trichinellosis was found only occasionally in official meat inspections of Finnish pork, although positive samples from imported pork were observed [ 42, 34].
The focus is mostly on composers, but the society has also imported a hefty contingent of Finnish performers to collaborate with its own players.
Apparently the Finns succeeded in improving their horse population, as the predominant form of Finnish trade in horses eventually shifted from imports to exports.
