Directory_and_Chronicle_1879 — Page 327

Directories & Chronicles 香港指南 All

SHANGHAI,

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The values of the Exports were-Silk, Haikwan Tls. 18,173,283; Tea, Haikwan Tls. 12,900,114; Sundries, Haikwan Tis. 26,896,253; a total of Haikwan Tls. 57,969,650. Of this amount there was sent to

Great Britain...

Continent of Europe

United States...

Japan

Other Foreign Countries

Hongkong and Chinese Ports...

***

...

During the year there entered and cleared-

Steamers ...

Sailing Vessels

3,091

1,018

4,109

...

Tls. 15,614,118

6,050,239

4,889,016

1,295,823

1,562,09!

28,558,363

Hk. Tls. 57,969,650

Tonnage Tonnage

2,557,241

3:9,403

2,886,644

Of which 95 entrances and 158 clearances were in ballast. The total tonnage was divided amongst the different flags as under :-

British

+

Chinese

American...

French

Japanese ...

German

...

41.08 per cent.

38.17

**

6.11

+1

4.33

3.99

"

2.17

1.15

Other Countries

Or, if we exclude the Chinese, seventy-one per cent. of the remainder was under the British flag. The total Customs Revenue for the year was Haikwan Tls. 3,269,919, consisting of

Import Duties

Exports Duties

Coast Trade Duties

Tonnage Dues

Transit Dues

...

Tls. 2,355,882

628,100

150,488

101,966

...

33,483

Hk. Tls. 3,269,919

Of the Imports at all the Treaty ports from for ign countries sixty-seven per cent. passet through Shanghai, and of the Exports t-lour per cent.; more than half of of the whole trade thus belonging to "tue commercial metropolis of China."

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