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Entries and Clearances
Tonnage
Values
Percentages Tonnage Trade.
28,192
33,450,560 Tls. 730,238,298
44'12
47:55
25,108
11,376,430
149,376,790
15:01
9.73
6,315
7,477,518
11
141,228,837
9'86
9:19
5.514
3,125,749
17
49,833,793
4.12
3.24
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1,978
1,616,460
36,206,929
2.13
2.36
582
1,351,200
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22,999,141
1.78
1:50
1,554 139,304
1,235,220 16,186,751
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24,599,982
1.63
1.60
15
381,294,580
21.35
24.83
208,547
75,819,888
*1
1,535,778,350
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Chinese
The vessels entered and cleared in 1906 were made up of 87,949 Steamers of 70,117,628 tons, and 120,598 Sailing Vessels of 5,702,260 tons; the latter including 3,974,378 Chinese Junk tonnage.
The gross coast trade in vessels of foreign build amounted to Tls. 412,268,134 outward, and Tls. 440,742,985 inward, the net native imports (that is goods not re-ex- ported) at the Treaty Ports being Tls. 158,276,129, and the exports to Treaty Ports Tls. 133,715,257.
The Imperial Maritime Customs revenue for the same year amounted to Haikwan Taels 36,068,595, and was derived from
Transit
Import Export Coast T'de
Opium
Duty.
Duty.
Duty.
1,165,860
1,122,678 2,267,279
664,680
Duty. 1,436,305 902,351
Opium T'nage Lekin. Dues. 3,782,594 1,266,654 1,831,934 547,849 59,965 445,107
Dues.
Foreign Tls.13,350,784 7,224,915
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Native.....
"Total
91
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„, 14,473,462 9,492,194 1,830,540 2,338,656 4,330,083 1,326,619 2,277,041 Mr. H B. Morse, Statistical Secretary to the Imperial Maritime Customs, in his report on the Foreign Trade of China for 1907, says :--
“General.—Calamity and a desperate struggle against adverse circumstances are the distinguishing features of the year's trade. Floods and inundations, with resulting famine and destitution, have restricted the producing and consuming power of the rich Yangtze basin, while Yunnan has been visited by a drought which, in parts, reduced the crops to two-tenths of an average, and in the rich province of Kwangtung serious injury was inflicted on its more valuable products. Even in the North, which was affected by adverse climatic conditions only in the spring, the political situation prevented that revival of trade which had been confidently expected. The result has been that exports have shown but little expansion, and much of the small increase must be attributed to the compulsion on the impoverished people to sell their produce, for which, moreover, the home market was restricted. Imports, too, which have been poured in during the past two years in a vast flood, have, much of them, remained on the importers' hands, unable to find a market.
"Foreign Trade.-The total net value of the foreign trade in 1906 was Hk Tls 646,726,782, a decrease of 4 per cent. from the value in 1905, Hk Tls. 674,988,988, a loss falling on the import trade alone, and fully accounted for by reduced imports of cotton piece goods, and fully covered again by reduced consumption of copper. To the total for the year the direct trade of the northern, Yangtze, and central ports, from New- chwang to Wenchow, contributed 70 per cent.; of the southern ports, from Santuao to Pakhoi, 28 per cent; and of the southern frontier ports, 2 per cent. The share of Shanghai alone, as a primary importing and ultimate exporting port, was 52 per cent. of the whole foreign trade of China and 74 per cent. of that of the area commercially subsidiary to it. The disproportion of imports and exports is still influenced by the abnormal conditions resulting from the war; but, while net imports exceeded exports by 43 per cent. in 1904 and 97 per cent. in 1905, in 1906 the excess was reduced tɔ 74 per cent.
"Imports.-The total net value of all imports, after deducting re-exports to foreign countries, was Hk. Tls. 410,270,082, less than in 1905 by Hk. Tls. 36,830,709, or 8.2 per cent. To the total import trade the northern, Yangtze, and central ports contributed 73.7 per cent; the southern ports, 24.6 per cent.; and the southern frontier marts, 1.7 per cent. Shanghai as a primary importing port contributed 52.6 per cent. to the whole foreign import trade of China, and 71.3 per cent. to that of the territory -commercially subsidiary to it.
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