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The principal features to be remarked in the reported Trade of the Port for
1902 are:
In Imports reported—
Increases in Opium
Rice
of 69.6°. of 32.3°/
Decreases in Hemp
of
26.5%
Flour
of
25.1%
"T
Coal
General of 15.7 %
of 13.4 °
Bulk Oil of
22.9 %-
Case Oil of
22.5%
37
""
29
Sugar
of 11.1
%
Cotton of
20.3%
"""
O
%
Timber of 10.7
The net increase under this head amounts to 482,476 tons.
In Exports, there is an increase reported of 126,814 tons.
In Transit Cargo
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†, 237,812
8. The total reported Import Trade of the Port for 1902 amounted to 26,037 vessels of 9,867,486 tons, carrying 6,921,928 tons of cargo, of which 4,549,531 tons were discharged at Hongkong. This does not include the number, tonnage or cargo of Local Trade Junks, or Steam Launches.
Cargo.
Country.
Ships.
Tons.
Discharged. In Transit.
CLASS I.
Canada,
23
47,673
19,735
Continent of Europe,
150
299,673
67,258
280,438
Great Britain,
173
503,847'
202,725
515,715
Mauritius,
6
6,069
7,611
United States,
152
437,971
231,257
95,061
CLASS II.
504
1,295,233
528,586
891,214
Australia and New Zealand....
57
107,094
67,637
38,664
India and Straits Settlements,
231
470,447
325,791
281,622
Тарап,......
415
1,019,501
913,800
380,611
Java and Indian Archipelago,
182
231,155
302,545
28,320
North Pacific,
2
832
350
Russia-in-Asia,
4
9,089
5,116
8.222
CLASS III.
891
1,838,118 1,615,239
737,439
North Borneo,
44
57,329
74,663
14,707
Coast of China,
1,382
1,835,498
309,165
633,011
Cochin-China,
195
228,585
305,329
37,962
Formosa,
111
94,842
43,780
6,030
Philippine Islands,
258
347,474
91,097
5,400
Hainan and Gulf of Tonkin,
361
274,097
272,975
42,934
Siam,
300
310,382
499,021
3,700
Wei-hai-wei,
1
2,700
CLASS IV.
2,652
3,150,907 | 1,596,030 743,744
River Steamers,--Canton, Macao and West
River,......
2,192
1,871,726
223,608
CLASS V.
Steam-launches trading to Ports outside the
Colony,
1,820
97,607
19,596
CLASS VI.
Junks in Foreign Trade,
17,978
1,613,895
566,472
Total,..
26,037
9,867,486 4,549,531 2,372,397
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