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61
1929.
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The table also shows the post-war figures reduced to the basis of 1913 values, a calculation which indicates a reduction in the volume of British exports to China (including Hongkong of 33.5 per cent. as between 1913 and 1929, and a progressively downward trend in the British export trade to that market.
BRITISH EXPORTS TO CHINA AND HONGKONG OF ARTICLES WHOLLY OR MAINLY MANUFACTURED.
those entering China from Hongkong and appearing in the Chinese Returns as imports from that Colony:
IMPORTS INTO CHINA IN 1913 AND 1929 OF PRINCIPAL CLASSES OF MANUFACTURED GOODS IN WHICH GREAT BRITAIN IS INTERESTED.
Percentage from
Total Imports in £ Million.
Gt. Britain
United Japan
Germany Other
States
Countries
1913
1924
1928
1929
Cotton Goods
1913 17.2 1929 23-3
53
21
285
20
66
Declared values
£ 17,017,421
£
£
£
On the basis of 1913 values Index of volume
Per cent.
(1913-100)
100
27,006,450 13,580,000 Per cent. 79-8
19,085,379 11,406,000 Per cent. 67.0
18,389,719
11,317,000
Per cent.
Cotton Yarn
1913 10.8 1929
1.9
66.5
45
401
British
India
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(Most of the balance of Imports in 1929 is recorded as from Hongkong.)
111. The imports into China of the principal manufactured goods, in which Great Britain is interested, increased from £41.5 million in 1913 to £63 million in 1929, as follows:-
Belgium
Metals, Minerals
1913
4.5
21
1929
9.5
131 20
225
26
7
8
10
17
20
1913.
1929.
Belgium
1,000 £'s. 1,000 £'s.
Dyes and Pigments
1913
2-6
31
1929 4.4
9
161
**
34
41
43
1
Cotton Goods
17,236
23,333
Cotton Yarn
Metals and Minerals
Dyes and Pigments
Cigarettes
H
Woollen goods
Chemicals
Paper
10,791
1,910
Cigarettes
1913
1.9
68
5
4,494
9,473
1929
2.8
421
48
2,637
4,435
1,913
2,762
Woollen goods and
1913
1-3
431
15
yarn
1929
6.0
46
24
1,298
5,982
1,093
4,589
Chemicals
1913
1-1
21
134
1
4
1,089
4,554
1929 4.6
16
18
12
Machinery
Motor Cars
872
4,129
79
1,541
(Much of the Imports of Chemicals, medicines, etc., are recorded as from Hongkong and are mostly of native origin.)
41,502
62,708
These ten items represented approximately 47 per cent. and 37 per cent. respectively of the total value of China's gross imports in the two years above-mentioned.
112. A comparison of the Chinese Import Returns for 1913 and 1929 shows many striking changes in the distribution of the above trades, as will be seen from the following statement, indicating (approximately) on a percentage basis the shares secured by the principal countries of supply. It must be noted, however, that these percentages refer solely to direct imports and do not include
Paper...
1913
1.1
12
172
15
1929
4.6
31 371
104
9
Machinery
1913
0-9 371 101
9
16
1929
4-1
32
21
181
131
Motor Cars
1913
0-08 26
221
20
1929
1.5
ឥន្ទ
361
46
113. It will be noted that in all but two of the above items- dyes and woollen goods-Great Britain's share of the trade has fallen off. As regards woollen piece goods (as distinct from yarns), there has, in fact, been a very substantial decrease in
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