2.
-
54
1916
522,543
1917
602,682
1918
1,215,403
White Sugar
946,900 pcls. (of 133-1/3 lbs)
1,150,819
1,952,705 "
1919
652,848
982,957
1920
852,300
992,670
1921
1,295,365
1,886,718
1922
967,880
1,760,443
1923
1,015,537
1,503,539
1924
1,218,441
2,576,706 E
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Brown Sugar
1916
1,453,564
1,904,936
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1917
1,542,366
1,880,502
1918
1,704,168
2,358,719
1919
1,079,741
1920
951,340
1,050,310
1921
1,545,238
1,329,085 11
1,995,894 "
1922
1,269,001
1,790,256
1923
912,981
1,005,564
1924
1,249,427
1,927,717
Sugar Candy
1916
141,272
176,281
*
1917
168,216
225.103
1918
240,111
314,034
1919
166,505
235,673
1920
95,181
122.329
1921
243.419
285.774
1922
197.169
282,739
1923
242,756
285,634
1924
272,658
364,610
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In regard to the classification of sugar it will be
interesting to know how it has been looked upon by Chinese
Government Officials, e.g., in a letter from the Ministry
of Commerce to the Cabinet early in 1921 it was stated;
"Sugar is a necessity and our country depends upon the
importation to an amount more than $80,000,000.00 yearly";
and again, in the answer of the Treasury to the M. Y. San
Memorandum on behalf of the China National Sugar Refining
Co. for a remission of taxes, about the same time, the
following occurs: "Sugar being a human necessity the
importation covers several tens of millions dollars a year".
In connection with the forthcoming Customs Conference
great anxiety is felt by the Sugar Refining and other
manufacturing interests in Hong Kong lest the projected
changes in China's tariff may render their position