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CHINA.

Comparative Table of the Trade in China with other Countries, during

the

years 1864 and 1865.

1864.

WITH

IMPORTS 1864.

RE-EXPORTS 1864.

EXPORTS 1864.

TOTAL 1864.

Great Britain, Bri-

tish Possessions, and Colonies

Tls. £ Stg.

51,126,615 17,042,205

Tls.

£ Stg.

Tls.

£ Stg.

Tls.

49,657,156 16,552,385 100,783,771 33,594,590

£ Stg.

1,832,205 610,735 3,051,458 1,017,153

450,678 150,226

Japan

United States of }

America

Sundry Countries

Chinese open Ports

or International Trade

3,584,235 1,188,078

76,748,025 25,582,675 216361297,212,043 44,766,105 14,922,035 143,150,259 47,716,753

Total..

133,721,768 14,573,919

|101,393,850 33,797,950 259,803,195 86,601,064|

19586,

344,947 111,982 5,223,610 1,742,870

4,482,859 1,494,287 4,933,537| 1,644,512|

2,142,783 714,261 6,707,018 1,902,339|

WITH

Great Britain, Bri-

tish Possessions, and Colonies....

Japan

United States

America... of

Sundry Countries

Chinese open Ports or International

Trade.........

1865.

IMPORTS 1865. Re-Exports 1865.|

EXPORTS 1865.

TOTAL 1865.

Tls. £ Stg.

57,735,771|18,282,994|

Tis. £ Stg.

£ Stg.

Tls.

Tls.

50,181,697 15,884,537|107,897,468|34,167,531

£ Stg.

2,454,109 777,134 2,142,976 678,609

270,743 85,735 4,867,828 1,541,478

482,593 152,822

5,864,823 1,857,193 6,347,416| 2,010,015|

2,620,987 829,979

3,757,834 1,189,980 6,378,821 2,019,959

79,809,253|25,272,930|32192680 10194348|| 44,110,354 13,968,278 156,112,287|49,435,556|

Total......

743,802,713,45,315,859

104,185,451|32,985,723 281,603,820 89,174,539|

The Re-exports to Great Britain amount to......Tls.

""

""

12,288,580 or £3,891,383 Stg.

3,703,811 or £1,172,873 815,452 or £258,226

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19

"3

to U. S. of America amount to...,, to Sundry Countries amount to..", -being for the most part Native Produce from the Yangtze ports and Ningpo, are are not put down in the above Table, the Exports including these amounts.

It will be seen from the preceding tables that Great Britain and the British colonies absorb almost the whole of the foreign commerce of China. The values of the total imports from China to the United Kingdom, and of the exports of British and Irish produce and manufactures from the United Kingdom to China--inclusive, till the year 1864, of Hongkong, but exclusive afterwards-were as follows in each of the ten years from 1857 to 1866 :—