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SHANGHAI
1891... Hk. Tls. 165,543,862 at Ex. 1.53 Mex. $253,282,109 at Ex. 4s. 11d., £40,696,199
1892...
166,827,502
1.54
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1893...
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177,017,836
1.54
11
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1894...
带着
195,622,371
151
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19
1895...
11
218,733,283
1.53
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1896...
226,912,516
1.53
"
1897...
1898...
265,678,990 251,205,837
1.50
"
""
1.51
"1
19
$256,914,353 $272,607,467 $295,389,780 $334,661,923 $347,176,149 $398,518,485 $379,320,814
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97
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4s. 4d., £36,319,946 3s. 11fd., £34,850,386 3s. 2d., £31,279,202 38. 3 d., £35,772,006 3s. 4d., £37,818,752 2s. 11}d., £39,575,099 2s. 103., £36,241,775
The quantity of foreign Opium imported recently declined much owing to in- creased production of and demand for the native drug, the quality of which is now much superior to formerly and the taxes very much lighter than on that of foreign growth. The import of 1898, 30,229 piculs, shewed however an increase of 2,700 piculs over that of 1897. The import of the native drug in 1895 as shewn by the Foreign Customs returns reached 10,413 piculs or more than four times that of 1893. In 1898 it declined to 7,850 piculs owing to short crops and greater demand inland. But it must be borne in mind that the great bulk of the native-grown opium which enters Shanghai does not come under the Maritime Customs supervision. An export of the native growth to foreign countries has now commenced. Owing to the increased silver cost the import of Cotton Goods and Yarn, which for several years had shown an annual increase in quantity of over 25 per cent., fell greatly in 1893, but subse- quently recovered in the year 1896 shewing the astonishing increase of 521 per cent. in value
value over its immediate predecessor. From 64 million taels in 1896 it fell to 55 millions in 1898. Shirtings and Drills from America now largely outnumber those of English make, for the reason, it is alleged, that freight from America is much lower than from England. The quantity of imported Woollens slowly increased till 1896, when the import was over 57 per cent. greater than in 1895. As with Cottons, this could not be maintained, 1897 shewing a decline of 14 per cent. and 1898 of 39 per cent. on that of 1897. Metals imported fluctuated by not more than ten per cent. during each year of the decade, increasing by an average of about five per cent. per annum till, as with most other foreign imports, there was a remarkable rise in 1896, the value in that year being 443 per cent. greater than in 1895; 1897 shewed a decline of 20 per cent. and 1898 a rise of 23 per cent. The import of Kerosene Oil was 42,821,383 gallons in 1896, 67,359,323 in 1897, and 69,056,545 in 1898. American declined in 1895 to less than half of the import in 1894, namely from 36 to 16 million gallons, but has increased each year since, reaching over 42 millions in 1898, while Russian case oil increased from 4 million gal- lons in 1894 to 174 in 1897, but fell to 8 millions in 1898, and Russian tank oil increased from 3 in 1894 to 7.41 million gallons in 1897, falling to 5.49 in 1898. The quantity of Sumatra Oil 134 million gallons; all in bulk, imported in 1898 was double that of the previous year. The importation of Sugar, which was 247,894 piculs in 1892, rose to a million and a quarter in 1894, and has remained about the same since, being 1,138,152 piculs in 1898, of this 514,994 piculs was refined, almost entirely from Hong- kong. Of coal more than half a million tons were imported in 1898, of which 476,000 came from Japan.
The export of native produce to foreign Countries aggregated over 78 million taels, an increase of 233 millions on the 1896 total, which fell to 69 million taels in 1898. The articles in which the falling off occurred were chiefly Raw Cutton. Filature Silk, Tea and Straw Braid, all of which had, however, been exported to an abnormal extent in the previous year. The unprecedented prices asked for raw cotton and great deteriora- tion in the quality of filature silk and of strawbraid were the causes of the decline in the export of these goods. Raw Silk increased from 48,472 piculs in 1896 to 63,979 in 1897 and 65,133 in 1898. The net import of silver fell from 36.6 million taels in 1895 to 6.6 in 1896 and to 4 million in 1897, but rose to 9 million in 1898, there being over ten million taels worth of silver bars brought from Japan. The net export of gold has considerably increased in recent years, having been 6.85 million taels in 1895, 7.2 in 1896, 8.67 in 1897, and 851 million taels in 1898.
The following tables show the export of Tea and Silk for six years:
Tea-- Black Brick Green
Silk Wild Waste
1893...picuis 281,339
1894...
1895... 1896...
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1897... 1898...
19
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353,910 234,072 304,267 338,028 230,215 358,631 412,694 240,689 151,850 175,398 217,425 261,166 507,039 204,358 320,994 466,421 185,880
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1893...57,674
1894...60,657
Cocoons
6,034 40,628 9,909 48,191 10,065 37,743
6,887
6,703
7,973
1895...68,384 1896...46,329 9,487 25,877 7,939 1897...64,914 12,166 33,900 8,845 1898...56,605 11,737 41,726 6,795
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