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1868 amounted to sixty-five million taels. It steadily increased each year until 1881, when it reached Hk. Tls. 141,921,357, but afterwards showed a great decline, the total for 1884 having been twenty per cent. less than that of 1881. There has since, however, been a rapid recovery, the total trade in foreign bottoms, import and export, for the last eight years, as given by the Customs Statistical Depart- ment, being:
2d., £31,279,202 38. 3d., £35,772,006 3s. 4d., £37,818,752 28. 11jd., £39,575,099 2s. 10 d., £36,241,775
10gd., 3s. Ojd., £46,164,949 3s. 1 d., £37,809,802 25. 11 d., £44,224,159
1894... Hk. Tis. 195,622,371 at Ex. 1.51 Mex.
1895...
218,733,283
1.53
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1896...
226,912,516
1.53
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1897...
11
265,678,990
1.50
8295,389,780 at Ex. 3s. $334,661,923 $347,176,149 $398,518,485
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1898...
19
251,205,837
1.51
$379,320,814
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1899...
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206,701,390
1.53
1900...
11
243,606,777
1.55
1901...
298,454,780
1.52
77
71
8469,253,127 $377,590,504 $453,651,266
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The following tables show the export of Tea and Silk for six years:—
Tea--- Black Brick
Silk Wild Waste
Cocoons 9,487 25,877 7,939 12,166 33,900 8,845 1898...56,605 11,737 41,726 6,795 1899...84,720 17,583 52,008 9,016 1900...48,355 13.068 39,157 6,484 1901...71,358 14,115 36,668 4,823
Green
1896...picuis 151,850
175,398
217,425
1896...46,329
1897...
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1898... 1899... 1900...
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1901...
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261,166 507,039 320,994 133,775 210,912 178,075 168,877 192,277
204.358
1897...64.914
466,421 185,880 151,985 230,623
201,839 196,542
The Import trade in Foreign Goods for 1901 may be summarised as follows:-
From Great Britain
From Hongkong...
From Russia
Hk.Tls. 3,002,753
3,243,080 2,273, 28 1,176,791
Hk. Tls. 1€0,120,312
The following were the values of the principal classes of Foreign Goods imported
Hk. Tls. 39,958,532
29,756,196
From Straits and Australia
From Japan and Formosa
18,143,069
From other Countries
From India.
28,763,157
From Chinese Ports
From United States ...
22,286,783
From Continent of Europe
11,516,423
during that year :-
Cotton Goods. Tls. 44,898,071
Seaweed...
1,088.196
Paper
406,317
Cotton Yarn
28,067,498
Soap
898,184
Indigo...
377,591
Opium
19,975,442
Leather and L. Gds. 890,756
Beche de Mer...
372,483
Kerosine Oil
11,405,984
Matches
...
790,336
Buttons
355,643
Metals
6,018,963
Sandalwood... 746,794 | Stationery
347,193
Sugar...
6,009,078
Gunny & Straw Bgs. 676,639
Candles
323,038
Coal
5,009,719
M'laneous. Pce. Gds. 627,254
Clothing
304,895
Woollen Goods...
3,624,793
Ginseng...
567,657
Butter and Cheese
304,499
Cotton(Raw)...
2,738,075
Glass and G'ware 527,299
Machinery
286,637
Wine, Beer, Sp'ts.
2,271,452
Pepper
506,841
Isinglass
285,920
Needles
500,318
Pearls
275,190
Birds Nests
477,432
Sundries
11,575,822
Flour
442,015
Tobacco, Cigars, &c. 1,990,329 Dyes and Colours 1,414,424 Household Stores 1,234,921 Timber
1,097,159 Silk and Silk Goods 409,146
Total Hk. Tls.160,120,312
Of the total an amount to the value of Haikwan Tls. 118,456,925 was re-exported; namely to the Yangtsze ports Hk. Tls. 57,972,278, to the Northern ports Hk. Tls. 42,584,348, to the Central ports Hk. Tls. 11,568,713, to Southern ports Hk. Tls. 1,171,533, to Russian Manchuria Hk. Tls. 405,333, to Corea Hk. Tls. 1,762,094, to Japan Hk. Tls. 861,458, to Hongkong Hk. Tls. 1,011,339, to Continent of Europe, Russia excepted, Hk. Tls. 119,400, to Great Britain Hk. Tls. 248,323, to United States of America and the Philippine Islands Hk. Tls. 55,232, and to other Foreign Countries Hk. Tls. 6 6,871, leaving a balance for local consumption and stock of Hk. Tls. 41,663,387.
Imports to the value of Tls. 018,781 were sent to the interior under Transit
Passes.
Native Produce to the value of Hk. Tls. 75,788,456 was imported in foreign vessels ; namely, from Yangtsze Ports, Tls. 43,364,299, from Northern Ports Tls. 15,807,084, from Central Ports Tls. 8,813,905, from Southern Ports Tls. 7,803,168, almost all of which was re-exported, the net native imports amounting to Hk Tls. 14,216,377.
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