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SHANGHAI-OFFICIAL.
The total values of Exports and Re-exports of Native Produce to Foreign Countries, Hongkong, and Chinese ports in 1888 were:-
Silk
...
Tls. 17,279,374, Wheat
Silk Piece Goods
Tls. 1,227,332 | Wood Oil 6.413,104 Cloth and Nankeens 1,157,073 Nutgalls
10,603,607 Hides
TIs. 348,016
335,138
876,948 ans
322,116
Rice
5,002,057 Gold Pyrites
873.394 Lily Flowers, dried 316,791
*
(Tribute) ...
1.130,326 Beans and Beancakes
728,321 Musk
274,670
Cotton. Haw
5,190.624 Wax
726.461 Fungus
260,372
Sugar...
3,726.644 | Wool
646,564 | Books Printed
234,497
Straw Braid
1,939,450 tiemp
633.053 Grass Cloth.......
231,389
Paper
1,799.855 Skin Rugs
494,245 Sundries
5,727,812
Medicines
Tobacco
1,405,221 Vermicelli & Macaroni 468,629 1,277,341 Chinaware...
386,754
Total Hk. Tls. 72,067,178
Of this amount there was sent to
Continent of Europe... Tls. 12,942,492
Other Foreign Countries.
495.874
Great Britain
9,786,600
To Foreign Countries, Hk. Tls. 36,460,737
United States
6,036,429
Japan and Corea...
3,021,485
Northern Ports
...Tls. 12,530,979
Hongkong for Foreign
Southern Ports
11,481,218
2,258,460
Countries
Yangtsze Ports
8,189,243
Straits and India
1,363,579
Hongkong for Chinese Ports
3.405,001
555,818
Russian Manchuria
To Chinese Ports, Hk. Tls. 35,606,441
The goods for Export brought down under Transit Passes amounted to only Tls. 911,985, almost all of which was Waste Silk and Cocoons.
The total Shipping, entrances and clearances, for the year 1888 were—
Steamers Sailing Vessels
+
4,734 813
5,547
Tonnage Tounage
...
4,786,761
207,074
4,993,835
Steams. Tonage. Sailing. Tonnage. Tota
..
2,436 2,495.081
101
583
416,3B
15
123
258,691
Japanese
196
198,868
20
Of which 110 steamers and 13 sailing vessels entered, and 351 steamers and 76 sailing vessels cleared in ballast. The total carrying trade was divided amongst the different flags as under :---
British German...
French
++
Duties. Tls. 3819,721 565.543 549 55] 185 315
Tona,
63 949 2,537
2.559.030
4,761
598
421,104
123
258.691
8,716
216
207,5-4
"1
American
73
39,970
73
39,970
45.197
Other Countries
5t
38 423
1
8.808 72
47,231
20,520
1
Chinese...
1,342
1,379.355 586
80,870 1,928 1,460,225
435.752
On Opium
་་
548 185
The total Customs Revenue for the same year was Haikwan Tls. 6,169,784
consisting of
Import Duties, exclusive of Opium
Export Duties,
do.
Coast Trade Duties, ĉo.
...
+
Ou Opium, Import, Export, and Coast Tade
Do. Tonnage Dues
Likin
Transit Dues
4
A
...
...
Tls. 2,762,033
985,548
199,213
548,185
1,461,383
164.567
48,855
Hk. Tls. 6,169,784
Of the Imports o foreign goods at all the Treaty ports and from Hongkong and Macao to non-Treaty ports, fifty-four or cont. passed through Shanghai, and of the Exports to foreign countries thirty-nine and a half per cent., besides most of the coasting trade; half of the whole trade of China in foreign vessels thus belonging to "the commercial metropolis of China."