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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 :-
1898... Hk. Tls. 251,205,837 at Ex. 1.51 Mex. $379,320,814 at Ex. 2s. 10gd., £36,241,775
3s. old., £46,164,949
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1899...
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1900... 1901...
306,701,390 243,606,777
1.53
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1.55
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$469,253,127 $377,590,504
298,454,780)
1.52
$453,651,266
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1902...
346,122,864
1.51
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$522,645,525
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1903...
351.200,609
1.54
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1904... 1905...
405,064,260
1.55
**
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443,954,22
1.55
8541,348,938 $627,849,603 $688,129,106
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3s. 1d., £37,809,802 28. 11., £44,224,159 28. 7d., £44,995,972 25. 7d., £46,338,969 28. 10d., £58,059,210 3s. 0., £66,778,120
The following tables show the export of Tea and Silk for six years:—
Ten-- Black
Brick Green
1900...picuis 210,912 230,623
1901...
178,075
168,877
Silk 1900...48,355 1901...71,358
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1902... 1903... 1904.... 1905...
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185,255
101,643
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231,025
11
182,810
97
137,532 243,341
104,323
98,389 259,077
Wild Waste Cocoons 196,542
13,068 39,157 6,484 192,277
14,115 36,668 4,823 250,560 1902...63,370 10.819 39,515 9,493 181,832 294,861 1903...38,162 15,945 45,692 15,633 1904...54,135 27.276 35,626 6,958 1905...45,766 19,201 55,570 9,247
The Import trade in Foreign Goods for 1905 was as follows:-
From Foreign Countries and Hongkong From Chinese Ports
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...
Hk. Tls. 258,381,378 1,194,387
Hk. Tls. 259,575,765
The following were the values of the principal classes of Foreign Goods imported during that year:—
Cotton Goods. Tls. 102,563,470 | Piece Goods... Tls. 1,439,992 | Flour
Cotton Yarn
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41,121,165 Candles
Metals...
19,607,562 | Sonp...
Opium
18,562,855 Paper
Kerosene Oil
10,346,009 | Matches
Sugar
Coal
8,604,648 | Railway Plant, &c.1,906,286 | Lamps & Lampware 438,715
Tls. 517,393
1,364,767 Household Stores
503,120
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1,287,641 Birds' Nests
485,520
1,219,009 | Haberdashery, &c. 483,534 1,047,801 | Needles
454,493
881,707 | Umbrellas ...
423.795
870,271 Hardware
416,167
664,468 | Cement
399,382
572,062 Silk & Ribbons...
399,143
568,619 Braid.
397,548
561,111 | Sundries...
18,220,501
536,551 Total Hk. Tls. 259,575,765
4,648,748 Glass and G'ware Tobacco, Cigars, &c. 4,594,935 | Seaweed Woollen Goods ... 4,049,980 | Beche de Mer Dyes and Colours 3,181,851 | Clocks & Watches Wine, Beer, Spirits 1,869,010 | Condensed Milk... Gunny & Straw Bgs. 1,738,677 Leather & L. Goods Machinery Timber
1,499,206 Soda
1,482,729 | Raw Cotten
545,324
Of the total an amount to the value of Haikwan Tls. 167,368,592 was re-exported namely, to Foreign Countries and Hongkong Hk. Tls. 10,199,186, and to Chinese Ports (chiefly to Northern and Yangtsze Ports) Hk. Tls. 157,169,406, leaving for local con- sumption a stock to the value of Hk. Tls. 92,207,173.
Imports to the value of Tis. 1,548,978 were sent to the Interior under Transit Passes.
Native Produce to the value of Hk. Tls. 112,274,251 was imported from Chinese Ports, almost all of which was re-exported, namely, to Chinese Ports Tls. 30,485,940, and to Foreign Countries and Hongkong Tls. 69,120,537, the net native imports amounting to Hk. Tls. 12,667,774.
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