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SHANGHAI
The total values of Exports and Re-exports of Native Produce to Foreign Countries, Hongkong, and Chinese ports in 1900 were :-
Silk Tea
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...Tls. 26,597,776 | Wool...
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Tls. 1,746,759 | Eggs, F. & P'ved. Tls. 567,661
11,629,230 Furs and Fur Rugs Cotton, Raw 10,675,536 | Opium Silk Manufactures 7,790,244 | Paper Cotton Gds. & Yarn 4,482,075 | Wheat Straw Braid
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1,690,673 Tallow
... 1,617,443 Wax
1,319,362 Feathers...
4,231,888 | Oils(Vegetable)... 1,282,181 | Musk
Hides and Horns 3,745,759 Nutgalls... Beans & Beancakes 2,995,719 Tobacco Cloth & Nankeens 2,353,023 | Medicines
Seeds
Rice
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(Free) (Tribute)
471,374
467,271
431,165
... 1,294,472 Ground Nuts
374,018
321,563
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... 1,042,158 Dried Lily Flowers 295,664
1,018,377 | Grass Cloth
274,038
971,001 Fungus
267,939
2,340,540 Hemp
840,814 Varnish
266,140
1,860,259 | Sugar
789,566 Sundries
7,865,801
692,630 Vicelli & Macaroni 714,388 2,110,820 | Bristles
626,941
Total Hk. Tls. 108,062,268
Other Foreign Countries
Tls. 535,94 475,93
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8,972,985 8,431,092
...
4,132,539
Northern Ports...
Tls. 11,269,311
2,813,944
Yangtsze and Central Ports
9,515,755
1,797,069
Southern Ports
9,137,934
799,272
...
642,125
Of this amount there was sent to— Continent of Europe...... Tls. 24,178,734 United States & Sandwich Islds. 13,413,493 Japan and Formosa Hongkong
Great Britain
Russian Manchuria India
Persia, Egypt, &c.
Russia, Odessa by sea Corea
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...
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11,946,133
Straits and Australia.......
To F'rgn. Countries, Hk. Tls. 78,139,268
To Chinese Ports, Hk. Tls. 29,923,000
The goods for export brought down under Transit Passes amounted to Tls. 4,269,868 almost all of which was Refuse Silk and Cocoons. This was a decrease of Tls. 244,257 as compared with that of 1899.
The total Carrying Trade, entrances and clearances, for the year 1900 was divided amongst the different flags as under:-
British...
Japanese...
Duties
Tls. 4,030,875
Steamers Tonnage Sailing
3,427
4,935,262
99
108,461
858
1,076,893
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Tonnage Total Tonnage
3,526 5,043,723 68 860 1,076,961
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German
616
1,059,910
12
5,146
628 1,065,056
489,446 1,022,282
American...
160
253,870
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5,486
172
259,356
French...
107
233,520
107
233,520
58,568 527,870
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Russian
98
109,962
296
102
110,258
53,700
Swedish & N'wegn
79
102,378
79
102,378
44,716
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Danish, Dutch, &c.
51
53,962
51
53,962
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45,612
Austrian
20
37,640
20
37,640
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58,185
Chinese
1,126
1,313,442
651 136,123
1,777
1,449,565
390,920
On Opium
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...
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395,213
Totals
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6,542 9,176,839
780 255,580
7,322
9,432,419
" 7,117,387
Of these 260 steamers and 41 sailing vessels entered, and 481 steamers and 44 sailing vessels cleared in ballast.
The total Customs Revenue, Hk. Tls. 7,117,387, for the same year consisted of—- Import Duties... ...Hk. Tls. 3,976,284
Tonnage Dues ... ...Hk. Tls.
Export Duties
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Coast Trade Duties...
55
1,288,084 233,577
Transit Dues...
Opium Likin
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480,988
84,657
1,053,797
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 fifty 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."
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