106
SHANGHAI
Great Britain...
The total values of Exports and Re-exports of Native Produce to Foreign Countries, Hongkong, and Chinese ports in 1891 were:—
Silk
TIs. 19,708,087 | Medicines ...Tls. 1,277,013 | Musk Silk Piece Goods 6,743,572 Beans & Beancakes 1,331,561 V'icelli & Macaroni 396,697 Tea
11,294,929 Cloth & Nankeens 1,187,197
6,749,162 Wool 4,103,808 Furs & Fur Rugs
4,717,438 Tobacco
(Tribute)... 1,668,829 Hides & Horns
Cotton Raw...
Rice
(Free)
22
Sugar
Straw Braid
Paper Wheat
...
...
4,091,649 Hemp
...
1,605,729 Vegetable Oils 1,556,099 Chinaware...
1,468,777 Wax...
Of this amount there was sent to-
Continent of Europe... ...Tls. 14,746,572
...
Other Foreign Countries
TIs. 393,301
Nutgalls
388,997
1,109,362 Fungus
303,815
912,756 Grass Cloth...
278,069
830,050 Rhubarb
254,842
726,509 Books Printed
238,399
679,334 Fans...
236,913
535,150
Sundries
5,297,334
...
439,993
439,419
Total Hk. Tls. 80,994,790
755,226
9,169,021
United States
6,285,463
To Foreign Countries, Hk. Tls. 40,395,780
Japan
4,606,276
Straits, India, & Australia
1,902,612
Northern Ports...
...Tls. 16,798,546
Hongkong for Foreign
Southern Ports
12,675,334
Countries
1,247,181
Yangtsze Ports...
7,819,211
...
Russian Manchuria
825,084
Hongkong for Chinese Ports
3,305,919
British America...
471,832
Corea
386,513
To Chinese Ports, Hk. Tls. 40,599,010
The goods for Export brought down under Transit Passes amounted to Tls. 1,116,851, almost all of which was Waste Silk and Cocoons.
The total carrying trade entrances and clearances for the year 1891 was divided amongst the different flags as under:--
British
Duties
Steamers Tonnage Sailing Tonnage Total Tonnage
109,986 3,164 3,509,141 Tls. 3,901,276
3,035 3,399,155
129
German...
486 418,885
3
770
489 419,655
675,523
"
French
104 213,814
104
213,814
847,624
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Japanese
345
331,840
52
22,839
397
354,679
247,541
"
American...
53
44,105
53
44,105
"J
48,273
Austrian
63
61,824
1
192
64
62,016
3,653
Swedish &N'wegn
72 41,558
5,131
77
46,689
20,709
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Other Countries
46
Chinese
1,451
35,183 1,473,273
6
5,922
52
41,105
16,598
521
87,528 1,972 1,560,801
540,322
39
On Opium...
531,379
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Totals...
6,832,898
5,602 5,975,532 770 276,473 6,372 6,252,005
Of these 110 steamers and 23 sailing vessels entered, and 327 steamers and 84 sailing vessels cleared in ballast.
The total Customs Revenue, Hk. Tls. 6,832,898, for the same year consisted of-
Import Duties
Export Duties
Coast Trade Duties
Tonnage Dues
Opium Likin...
Transit Dues
...Haikwan Tls. 3,671,719
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1,241,833
""
239,419
"
214,846
"5
49,691 1,415,390
Of the total value of the Imports of Foreign goods at all the Treaty ports and from Hongkong and Macao to non-Treaty ports, fifty-seven and a three quarters per cent. passed through Shanghai, and of the Exports to foreign countries forty per cent., besides most of the coasting trade; more than half of the whole trade of China in foreign vessels thus belonging to "the commercial metropolis of China."
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