mittee which I appointed to enquire into the extent to which foreign imports have displaced, or are displacing, similar British goods in this Colony, and the causes of such displacement, as well as the question of the transit trade of Hongkong affecting British and Foreign products.
In spite of the difficulties which such an enquiry necessarily presented owing to Hongkong being a free port, the Committee has succeeded in collecting and arranging a mass of useful and suggestive information from which it appears that a steady though not strikingly large displacement of British goods has been taking place for some years, but that not many great staples have been seriously affected. The competition of Japan, however, threatens to become serious.
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mittee which I appointed to
enquire
into the extent to
which foreign imports have
of are
a
displaced, displacing, similar British goods in this Colony, and the causes of such displacement, well as the question of the transit trade of Hongkong
affecting
as
British
Foreign products.
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In spite of the diffi
culties which such an
enquiry
necessarily presented owing
to
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to Hongkong being a free port.
the Committee has succeeded
in collecting and arranging
a mass
of useful and suggest ive information from which it appears that a steady though not strikingly large displacement of British goods has been taking place for
some
years,
but that not-
many great staples have been seriously affected. The competition of Japan, howe
ever,
threatens to assume
serious. ser
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