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SHANGHAI

The total values of Exports and Re-exports of Native Produce to Foreign Countries, Hongkong, and Chinese ports in 1899 were :-

Silk

...Tls. 49,832,145 | Cloth&NankeensTls2,878,656 | Chinaware

Silk Manufactures10,058,288 Straw Braid

8,721,959 Paper

Tea

Cotton, Raw 5,579,187 Oils (Vegetable) Cotton Gds. & Yarn 4,717,249 | Seeds Furs and Fur Rugs 3,775,899 Tobacco

Rice

Wool ...

(Free)...

3,751,536 Wax ...3,612,691 | Hemp

368,164 | Sugar

|

*

(Tribute) ...3,499,890 Medicines Hides and Horns 3,555,718 Opium... Beans & Beancakes 3,546,751 | Bristles Wheat...

3,159,662 | Nutgalls

Of this amount there was sent to-

Continent of Europe ...Tls. 36,659,650 United States & Sandwich Islds. 20,638,203 Great Britain

Hongkong

|

2,802,481 Books, Printed...

1,697,050 | Feathers.....

... Tls. 761,561

541,338

2,166,320 | Varnish

517,967

***

1,990,972 | Pottery

508,372

504,556

...

1,637,231 V'icelli & Macaroni 500,638

1,322,493

Musk

495,465

... 1,183,010

Tallow

*

455,467

1,053,061 | Grass Cloth

410,170

... 1,012,117 | Fungus

391,068

917,720

Sundries

7,896,831

---

...

888,072

776,762

Total Hk. Tls. 137,488,517

British America

205,141

163,187

Other Foreign Countries

To F'rgn. Countries, Hk. Tls. 90,937,476

10,765,836

7,911,100

...

7,381,217

2,621,946

Northern Ports...

1,762,356

Southern Ports

1,695,113

Yangtsze Ports...

621,550

512,177

Japan...

Russian Manchuria

India and Burmah

Persia, Egypt, &c....

Corea ...

+

Straits and Australia...

Tls. 23,269,525

14,306,577 8,974,939

To Chinese Ports, Hk. Tls. 46,551,041

The goods for export brought down under Transit l'asses amounted to Tls. 4,514,125 almost all of which was Refuse Silk and Cocoons. This was an increase of Tls. 1,670,944 as compared with that of 1898.

The total Carrying Trade, entrances and clearances, for the year 1899 was divided amongst the different flags as under:-

British.

Japanese

Duties Tls. 4,600,610

424,591

Steamers Tonnage Sailing Tonnage Total Tonnage

3,262

4,688,948

86

811

903,871

103,469 3,348 4,792,417 811 903,871

39

German

370

505,328

5

6,252

375

511,580 ,, 1,118,768

French

106

227,389

106

227,389

551,895

American...

74

188,016

38

30,221

112

218,237

"}

86,998

Russian

113

136,999

4

402

117

137,401

>>

36,384

Swedish & N'wegn

105

121,234

2,408

107

123,640

>>

69,700

Austrian

16

39,566

16

39,566

""

82,192

Danish, Dutch, &c.

40

34,780

8

6,250

48

41,030

""

40,343

Chinese

...

1,654

1,792,189

706

150,623

2,360

1,942,812

}}

630,940

On Opium

19

478,364

Totals ..

6,531

8,638,320

849 299,623

7,400 8,937,943

11

8,120,845

Of these 192 steamers and 20 sailing vessels entered, and 460 steamers and 49′ sailing vessels cleared in ballast.

The total Customs Revenue, Hk. Tls. 8,120,845, for the same year consisted of— Import Duties

...Hk. Tls. 4,442,387

...Hk. Tls. 384,940

Export Duties Coast Trade Duties...

31

1,582,065 335,936

Tonnage Dues Transit Dues... Opium Likin

11

}"

101,490 1,274,027

Of the total value of the Imports of Foreign Goods at all the Treaty ports and from Hongkong and Macao at non-Treaty ports, fifty-eight per cent., and of the Exports to foreign countries nearly forty-three and a half per cent., passed through Shanghai, 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."