SHANGHAI
TRADE AND COMMERCE
197
Shanghai is the great emporium for the trade of the Yangtsze and Northern and Corean ports, and to some extent for Japan. The total import and export trade of 1868 amounted to sixty-five million taels. It steadily increased each year until 1881, when it reached Hk. Tls. 141,921,357, but afterwards showed a great decline, the total for 1884 having been twenty per cent. less than that of 1881. There has since, however, been a rapid recovery, the total trade in foreign bottoms, import and export, for the last eight years, as given by the Customs Statistical Depart- ment, being :-
1893... Hk. Tls. 177,017,836 at Ex. 1.54 Mex. $272,607,467 at Ex. 3s. 11d., £34,850,386
1894...
1895...
195,622,371 218,733,283
1.51
1.53
"1
1896...
226,912,516
1.53
**
+
$295,389,780 8334,661,923 $347,176,149
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3s. 2d., £31,279,202
"1
"1
1897...
265,678,990
1.50
"1
""
1898...
251,205,837
1,51
$398,518,485 $379,320,814
19
1899...
>>
306,701,390
1.53
"
$469,253,127
1900...
""
243,606,777
1.55
19
$377,590,504
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19
3s. 3d., £35,772,006 3s. id., £37,818,752 2s. 11 d., £39,575,099 2s. 102d., £36,241,775 3s. old., £46,164,949 3s. 1d., £37,809,802
The following tables show the export of Tea and Silk for six years:-
Tea- Black Brick Green
Silk Wild Waste
Cocoons
1895...piculs 358,631
412,694
240,689
1895...68,384
10,065
37,743 7,973
1896...
151,850
175,398
217,425
1896...46,329
9,487
"1
25,877 7,939
1897...
261,166
507,039
204.358
1897.....
1897...64,914
12,166
33,900 8,845
""
1898... 1899... 1900...
320,994
466,421
99
185,880
1898...56,605
11,737 41,726 6,795
133,775
151,985
17
210,912
230,623
17,583 52,008 9,016 13,068 39,157 6,484
The Import trade in Foreign Goods for 1900 may be summarised as follows:-
From Great Britain
From Hongkong.....
20,082,044 From Straitsand Australia
201,839 | 1899...84,720
196,542 | 1900...48,355
18,307,764
Machinery
16,266,605
Timber
Hk. Tls. 39,796,328
From Russia
1
From Japan and Formosa
From India
From United States
From Continent of Europe
16,891,849
16,671,284
15,598,213
9,305,384
during that year:-
The following were the values of the principal classes of Foreign Goods imported
Cotton Goods. Tls. 41,959,594
Leather and L. Gds. 724,449
Opium
...
*
Cotton Yarn
Hk.Tls. 3,777,571
1,891,093
From other Countries From Chinese Ports
1,976,328
818,124
Hk. Tls. 126,808,218
Birds' Nests
357,586
713,118
Buttons
321.294
696,640
Stationery
293,155
Kerosine Oil...
7,808,156
Soap
690,093
Pepper...
278,965
Metals...
...
5,591,646
Sandalwood
681,240
Umbrellas
252,007
Coal
3,583,515
Seaweed
659.181
Braid
246,053
Sugar..
3,180,049
Matches
399,716
Clothing..
223,696
Woollen Goods
2,492,064
Paper
543,085
Isinglass
223,508
Cotton (Raw)
1,699.683
Needles
531,348
Beche de Mer
222,575
Glass and G'ware
498,533
Clocks & Watches 220,263
Bags
476.369
Engine Oil
Flour
466,759
Sundries
203,712 ...9,409,747
961,026 747.273
Silk & Silk Goods 444,110 Candles
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384,381
Dyes and Colours 1,524,466 Wine, Beer, Sp'ts. 1,248.598 Tobacco, Cigars, &c. 1,076,846 Ginseng Household Stores
Total Hk. Tls.126,508,218
Of the total an amount to the value of Haikwan Tls. 88,079,106 was re-exported ; namely to the Yangtsze ports Hk. Tls. 47,598,456, to the Northern ports Hk. Tls. 22,557,525, to the Central ports Hk. TIs. 9,597,904, to Southern ports Hk. Tls. 1,430,304, to Russian Manchuria Hk. Tls. 1,968,623, to Corea Hk. Tls. 1,102,488, to Japan and Formosa Hk. Tls. 1,248,479, to Hongkong Hk. Tls. 1,546,933, to Continent of Europe, Russia excepted, Hk. Tls. 217,284, to Great Britain Hk. Tls. 331,430, to United States of America and the Sandwich and Philippine Islands Hk. Tls. 139,643, and to other Foreign Countries Hk. Tls. 340,037, leaving a balance for local consumption and stock of Hk. Tls. 38,729,112
Imports to the value of Tls. 682,332 were sent to the interior under Transit Passes. Native Produce to the value of Hk. Tls. 66,534,803 was imported in foreign vessels ; namely, from Yangtsze Ports, Tls. 37,420,674, from Northern Ports fls. 13,846,624, from Central Ports Tls. 8,677,239, from Southern Ports Tls. 6,590,266, almost all of which {was re-exported, the net native imports amounting to Hk. Tls. 8,736,291.
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