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and exported to China and Indo-China, and rice, over
$2,000,000, imported from Siam, Indo-China and Burma
and exported to China, Japan, the Facific and
America. Similarly, in the case of textiles,
there are
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main streams, one of cotton goods
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imported from Japan and Europe and exported to
China and another of silk piece-goods importea
from China and exported all over the world (
largely to Siam).
Cornering
g the figure of $11,000,000 by
these reductions in the case of foodstuffs and
textiles, the possible transit trade from one part
of China to another is reduced to less than
$6,000,000. There still remains a number of other
reductions which could be made (e. g., there is a
large item of sundries, $1,900,000, which on
examination could no doubt be very considerably
reduced).
It would seem safe to conclude, therefore,
that this trade amounts to considerably less than
$5,000,000 per month and would not exceed 10 per cent
of Hong Kong's total trade.
On the other hand, there is a large trade
passing through Hong Kong from one gold-using country
to mother, e.g., Siamese rice to Japan and Japanese
textiles to Siam, Indo-China, etc. It is possible
to arrive at a rough estimate of the amount of
this trade.
The total exports amounted to $39,000,000
Assuming that the inter-Chinese trade was $4,000,000
then