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Hong Kong Annual Administration Reports, 1841-1941
COLONIAL REPORTS-ANNUAL.
The import of coal had increased in an abnormal manner in 1898, which accounts for the large falling off in 1899.
The totals in tons of imports and exports for the last five years are as follows:-
Imports Exports In Transit 1895 3,485,504 2,704,974 1,623,883 1896 3,425,436 2,661,873 1,845,400 1897 3,414,728 2,787,535 1,852,462 1898 4,077,740 3,015,263 2,020,322 1899 3,915,481 2,949,342 1,957,703The following table shows the imports and exports of junks in foreign and local trade during 1898 and 1899:
Imports Exports 1898 689,251 774,069 1899 783,876 945,446The principal exports are kerosine and rice.
While British goods hold their own in the main with those of foreign manufacture, the following items may be specially noted:-
Cements.
Very little British cement is now imported, the Hong Kong manufacture being now chiefly used all over the East, with small quantities of Belgian make.
Rope...
The local company's article now entirely supplies the wants of the local market, to the exclusion of other manufactures, and in addition large quantities of the rope are shipped to all Eastern ports, and Australia.