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SHANGHAI
Imports to the value of Tls. 1,236,766 were sent to the interior under Transit Passes; Metals, Kerosine, and Coal being the principal articles thus conveyed. The imports in foreign bottoms of native produce not re-exported amounted to Hk. Tls. 8,517,253.
The total values of Exports and Re-exports of Native Produce to Foreign Countries, Hongkong, and Chinese ports in 1892 were:-
Silk Tea...
Tls. 20,504,213 | Furs& Fur Rugs Tls.1,370,989 | Ground Nuts Tls. 411,335
11,306,124 Cloth & Nankeens Silk Manufactures 7,229,494 Medicines
Cotton, Raw...
Rice
"
(Free)
"
(Tribute)...
Sugar
Straw Braid
...
Paper Wheat
...
Wool
...
***
6,333,233 Oils 3,799,950 Beans & Beancakes 1,482,010 Tobacco ...
1,490,834
1,490,834 Hemp
...
2,826,126 Hides and Horns 2,004,861 Chinaware...
1,670,691 Seeds
1,606,720 Nutgalls
1,543,052 Wax...
***
1,348,662 Musk
334,632
1,318,020 Fungus
295,154
1,029,740 Grass Cloth...
***
284,533
920,854 V'icelli & Macaroni 267,375
918,513 Copper...
251,308
677,627 Books, Printed
231,690
...
547,397
Rhubarb
230,291
522,386 Dried Lung-ngans 221,815
***
485,151
Sundries
5,126,535
...
482,800 458,708
7,274,385
Other Foreign Countries
7,261,883
6,249,342
2,042,008
Northern Ports ...
...Tls. 14,271,988
·
1,394,194
Southern Ports
12,062,738
832,510
Yangtsze Ports ...
6,324,628
...
729,940
Hongkong for Chinese Ports
3,144,767
401,871
359,397
Of this amount there was sent to-
Continent of Europe ...Tls. 17,023,005
United States Great Britain
...
Japan...
...
...
...
Hongkong for Foreign }
India
Russian Manchuria Persia, Egypt, &c. Corea
Straits and Australia...
***
...
Total Hk. Tls. 79,532,823
British America...
To Frgn. Countries, Hk. Tls. 43,728,702
120,419
39,748
To Chinese Ports, Hk. Tls. 35,804,121,
The goods for Export brought down under Transit Passes amounted to Tls. 1,153,161 almost all of which was Refuse Silk and Cocoons.
The total carrying trade, entrances and clearances, for the year 1892 was divided amongst the different flags as under:-
Steamers Tonnage Sailing Tonnage Total Tonnage
British German... Japanese
•••
French
...
Austrian
...
***
3,042 3,653,384
104
71,805 3,146 3,725,189
Duties Tls. 3,542,013
525
421,802
6
343
...
332,617
47
390
3,404 531 425,206 21,066
617,282
99
353,683
""
262,814
106
***
219,708
106
219,708
807,793
94
113,940
94
113,940
"
103,346
Swedish & N'wegn
65
37,530
5
5,079
70
42,609
"}
9,918
American...
1
23
43
29,008
44
29,031
21,532
Russian
21
14,859
1
35
22
14,894
"
5,025
Danish, &c.
15
...
Chinese
...
1,459
8,940 1,517,976
15
8,940
99
6,360
519
89,099 1,978
1,607,075
"
517,920
On Opium...
***
...
"}
477,529
Totals...
...
5,671
6,320,779
725
219,496 6,396 6,540,275
» 6,371,532
Of these 77 steamers and 8 sailing vessels entered, and 332 steamers and 62 sailing vessels cleared in ballast.
The total Customs Revenue, Hk. Tls. 6,371,532, for the same year consisted of— Import Duties ...Hk. Tls. 3,419,793
Export Duties
Coast Trade Duties...
"
"1
1,197,786 221,349
Tonnage Dues Transit Dues Opium Likin
***
...
....
19
...
**
.Hk. Tls. 209,988 50,143 1,272,475
Of the total value of the Imports of Foreign goods at all the Treaty ports and from Hongkong and Macao to non-Treaty ports, over fifty-seven per cent. passed through Shanghai, and of the Exports to foreign countries over forty-two per cent., besides most of the coasting trade; more than half of the whole trade of China in foreign vessels thus belonging to "the commercial metropolis of China."
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