SHANGHAI.

339

The total values of Exports and Re-exports to Foreign Countries, Hongkong,

and Chinese ports were :—

Exports and Re-exports of Silk ... Exports and Re-exports of Tea

Exports and Re-exports of Raw Cotton

Exp rts and Re-exports of Rice (exclusive of Tribute)

Exports and Ro-exports of Sugar

Exports and Re-exports of Paper

Exports and Re-exports of Copper Cash Exports and Re-exports of Straw Braid Exports and Re-exports of Tobacco Exports and Re-exports of Medicines Exports and Re-exports of Sundries.......

Of this amount there was sent to

Tls. 25,8,868 12.68,369 5.494,830 3.8 3,8 5 3,589,271

1,357,199

1.261,191

1,215,904

1,153.999

1.145.418

12,890,953

Hk. Tls. 70,209,367

Great Britain

Continent of Europe

Tls. 13,633,330

11,857,584

Northern Ports ... Yangtsze Ports

Tls. 10,161.005 11,014,754

United States

6,4' 4.121

Sutbern Ports

10.057.321

Japan

1,300,054

Hongkong for Chinese Ports 2.797,473

India

1.083,145

Other Foreign Countries

1,890,576

To Foreign Countries, Ik. Tls 36,178,811

To Chinese Ports, Hk. Tls. 31,030,556

The goods for Export brought down under Transit Passes amount d to only Tls. 568,959, almost all of which was Waste Silk aud Cocoons.

During the year, there were employed 840 separate vessels, giving a toʻal of entrances and clearanc s-

teamers

ailing Vessels

3.472 1,079

4,551

Tonnage Tounage

3,026,366

290,932

3.317, 93

Of which 89 entrances and 260 clearances were in ballast. The total carrying trade was divided amongst the different flags as under :-

Vessels.

Tonnage.

British

5'4

50.91 per cent.

Foreign. 68.5 per cent.

Coast.

Duties.

51.75 per cent. 71.86 per cent.

Chinese

92

34.63

1.20

44.84

"1

**

"

French

24

3.64

18.64

0.45

""

11

""

Japanese

16

4.95

7.71

6.51 $3.39 3.99

"

***

""

"

American...

78

2.21

1.40

0."2

1.55

39

"}

*

German

60

2.27

1.98

1.75

2.01

"

"

Other Countries 56

1.39

0.82

0.29

0.69

""

"}

"

810 100.00

100.00

100.00

100.00

The total Customs Revenue for the year was Haikwan Tls. 4,220,722, consist-

ing of

Import Duties

Export Duties

Coast Trade Duties

Tonnage Dues

Transit Dues

...

...

*

***

***

...

...

***

***

*

...

...

Tls. 2,738,219

1,091,739

244,701

115,4-1

30,582

Hk. Tls. 4,220,722

Of the Imports at all the Treaty ports from foreign countries sixty-eight and a half per cat. passed through Shanghai, and of the Exports forty-six and a half per cent.; more than half of the whole trade thus belonging to "the commercial metro- polis of China.”

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