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Enclosure 2 in No. 1.
TABLE showing British and United States Trade with China, 1900-1909.
(In millions of taels,)
Total British Trade.
Year.
Imports.
Exports.
Total United States Trade.
Total Foreign Trade.
Including
Excluding
Hong Kong. Hong Kong.
1900
164
144
1901
165
1902
25
1903
19
1904
27
1905
27
104
1906
26
1007
26
1908
1909
234 32
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31
370
240
82
40
488
283
91
529
330
114
541
331
105
583
346
113
675
383
154
70
647
368
140
63
081
391
138
671
374
132
707
305
148
Confidential.
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Note. The above figures, taken from the Annual Returns published by the Imperial Maritime Customs, do not hear out the statements made by the director- general of the Nanking Exhibition at the banquet to the delegates on the 25th September, to the effect that "American trade with China has quadrupled during the last nine years."
The Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs
presents his compliments to the
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Scentary of
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for the bolonie's, and is directed by the Secretary of State
for Foreign Affairs to transmit the accompanying sections of
printed confidential correspondence for
Governor of Hong Kong.
cation to thu
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