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averaged sixteen million pounds, and Silk during the same period seventeen thousand bales. The total import and export trade of 1868 was sixty-five million Taels. It rose to double that amount in 1881 by a steady increase, but has since shown a great decline, the total for 1884 being twenty per cent. less than that of 1881. The total trade in foreign bottoms, import and export, for 1884, as given by the Customs Statistical Department, was Haikwan Tls. 113,215,520, equal to $172,465,000 or thirty-one and a-half millions sterling, an increase of two and a-half per cent. on the previous year, which was Hk. Tls. 110,433,531, equal to $169,500,000 or thirty-one mil- lions sterling. The total trade in 1882 was Hk. Tls. 122,750,226, equal to $188,000,000 or thirty-five millions sterling, against Haikwan Tls. 141,921,357, equal to $220,000,000 or forty-two millions sterling in 1881. The estimated value of imports from Foreign Countries in 1884 was Tls. 21,000,000 less than in 1881, the decrease being accounted for almost entirely through a falling off in the imports from Great Britain and India, and as regards the estimated value of the exports and re-exports to foreign countries there was an increase of Haikwan Tls. 1,600,000 on that of 1883 but a decrease of Tls. 3,900,000 from 1881. Latterly the value of most of the principal articles of import as well as the quantities imported and delivered continued to decline. The import (42,383 piculs) of foreign opium of all sorts shewed a falling off of 3,791 piculs on that of the previous year and of 13,400 piculs as compared with 1881. This is attributed to an increased production of and demand for native opium, the quality of which is now much superior to what it formerly was. There was a decrease in the export of black tea of 33,000 piculs compared with 1883, and of over 98,000 piculs in the three years; in Green tea an increase of 13,000 piculs, but a decrease of 132,000 piculs for the three years. The export of Silk amounted to 50,000 piculs and 34,000 piculs Waste against 42,000 piculs and 21,400 piculs Waste the previous year. The import trade may be summarised as follows:
Imports of Foreign Goods from Great Britain... Imports of Foreign Goods from India
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A
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Imports of Foreign Goods from Hongkong Imports of Foreign Goods from Japan Imports of Foreign Goods from United States Imports of Foreign Goods from Continent of Europe Imports of Foreign Goods from Straits and Australia Ipports of Foreign Goods from Chinese Ports Imports of Foreign Goods from other Countries
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Tls. 16,561,120
16,338,981
5,703,058
3,324,400
2,414,250
1,672,698
599,484
...
300,967
243,055
Hk. Tls. 47,158,013
Of this amount to the value of Haikwan Tls. 39,690,117 was re-exported, namely to the Yangtsze ports Hk. Tls. 19,815,048, to the Northern ports Hk. Tis. 12,710,340, to Ningpo and Southern ports Hk. Tls. 5,771,846, to Hongkong Hk. Tls. 635,238, to Japan Hk. Tls. 542,569, and to Foreign Countries Hk. Tls. 215,076, leaving a balance for local consumption and stock of Hk. Tls. 7,467,896.
Imports of Opium...
Imports of Cotton Goods...
Imports of Woollen Goods.
Tls. 16,325,703
Imports of Pepper...
...Tl-. 288,057
15,887,959
Imports of Saudalwood
280,819
3,036,050
Imports of Soap and Perfumery
276,381
Imports of Metals
2,661,963
Imports of Birds' Nests
251,740
Imports of Coal
...
1,259,220
Imports of Machinery
160,472
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Imports of Kerosine Oil ...
753,173
Imports of Flour
157,745
Imports of Dyes and Colours
687.240
Imports of Matches
150,416
...
Imports of Seaweed ...
€641,578
Imports of Needles
Imports of Ginseng
356,309
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...
Imports of Sundries
133,295 3,191,499
Imports of Biche de Mer...
339,332
Imports of Timber
319,059
Hk. Tls. 47,158,013
Imports to the value of Tls. 1,337,257 were sent to the interior under Transit Passes; Metals, Kerosine, Coal and Sugar being the principal articles thus conveyed. The imports in foreign bottoms of native produce not re-exported amounted to Hk. Tls. 6,878,211.