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314

SHANGHAI.

During the year, there were employed 944 separate vessels, giving a total of entrances and clearances-

Steamers ...

Sailing Vessels

3,063

1,313

Tonnage Tonnage

...

4,376

2,674,271 388,411

3,062,682

Of which 100 entrances and 244 clearances were in ballast. The total carrying trade was divided amongst the different flags as under :-

Vessels.

British

500

...

Tonnage. 49.36 per cent.

68.95 cent.

Foreign.

50.48 per

Coast.

per

cent.

Chinese

139

35.22

1.27

45.49

"

59

French

26

3.97

18.13

0.25

Duties. 72.79 per cent.

5.76 12.46

"J

95

55

29

Japanese

13

4.51

7.30

4.02

"

59

59

"

American...

107

3.06

2.17

1.86

2.43

""

39

>>

German

95

2.94

1.72

1.42

1.89

19

23

31

39

Other Countries

64

0.94

0.46

0.50

0.65

22

"J

13

"}

944

100.00

100.00

100.00

100.00

The total Customs Revenue for the year was Haikwan Tls. 4,018,128, consist-

ing of

Import Duties ...

Export Duties

Coast Trade Duties ...

Tonnage Dues

Transit Dues

414

+

...

...

Tls. 2,791,038

879,020

201,727

116,843

29,500

Hk. Tls. 4,018,128

Of the Imports at all the Treaty ports from foreign countries sixty-nine per cent.. passed through Shang'.ai, and of the Exports forty-four per cent.; more than half of the whole trade thus belonging to "the commercial metropolis of China."

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