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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 1884.

TOTAL 1864.

Great Britain, Bri-'

tish Possessions, and Colonies

Tls. £ Stg.

51,126,815 17,042,205

Tis. £ Stg.

Tla £ Stg. Tls. £ Stg.

49,657,166 16,552,385 100,783,771 33,594,590

Japan

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

United States of

America

450,678 150,226|

3,664,235 1,188,078

314,947 114.982 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

Sundry Countries

Chinese open Ports or International Trade

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

Total.....

|133,721,758 44,573,919|

573,919

1865.

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

WITH

IMPORTS 1885. RE-EXPORTS 1865.

EXPORTS 1865.

TOTAL 1865.

Great Britain, Bri-

tish Possessions, and Colonies

Tls. £ Stg.

57,735,771 18,282,994,

Tla. £ Stg.

Tla. 1 £ Stg.

Tls.

£ Stg.

50,161,697 15,884,537 107,897,468 34,187,631

Japan

United States of

America....

482,693

2,454,109 777,134 2,142,978 678,609

152,822

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

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

2,620,987 829,379

3,757,831 1,189,980 6,378,821| 2,019,969|

Sundry Countries

Chinese open Ports Or International

Trade.........

Total.........

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

104,165,451 32,986,723 281,603,820 89,174,539

743,802,713 45,315,859

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

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12,288,580 or £3,891,383 Stg. to U. S. of America amount to... 3,703,811 or £1,172,873 to Sundry Countries amount to.. 815,452 or £258,226 -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.

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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:-

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