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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 :—
1895... Hk. Tls. 218,733,283 at Ex. 1,53 Mex. $334,661,923 at Ex. 38. 3 d., £35,772,006
226,912,518
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1896...
1.53
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1897...
265,678,990
1.50
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1898...
251,205,837
1.51
31
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1899...
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306,701,390
1.53
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243,606,777
1.55
39
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จริ
298,454,780 346,122,864
1.52
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1.51
$347,176,149 $398,518,485 $379,320,814 $469,253,127 $377,590,504 $453,651,266 $522,645,525
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1900... 1901... 1902...
The following tables show the
Tea- Black Brick
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38. 4d., £37,818,752 2s. 11 d., £39,575,099 2s. 10ğd., £36,241,775 38. Od., £46,164,949 3s. 1d., £37,809,802 2s. 11 d., £44,224,169 2s. 7 d., £44,995,972
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export of Tea and Silk for six years:~
Silk Wild Waste Cocoon
1897...piculs 261,166
Green 507,039 204,358
1897...64,914
1898...
320,994
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466,421
185,880
1899... 1900... 1901... 1902...
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133,775
151,985
201,839
210,912
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230,623
196,542
178,075
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168,877
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185,255 101,643 250,560 | 1902...63,370
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 6,484 192,277 1901...71,358 14,115 36,668 4,823 10,819 39,515 9,493
The Import trade in Foreign Goods for 1902 may be summarised as follows:--
From Great Britain Hk. Tls. 62,890,412
From British America... Hk.Tls. 2,831,854
From Hongkong...
From India
From United States
From Japan and Formosa
From Continent of Europe
32,735,189
From Straits and Australia
2,823,957
32,033,444
From other Countries
2,440,413
27,862,150
From Chinese Ports
1,115,236
15,867,223
12,695,147
Hk. Tls. 183,295,031
The following were the values of the principal classes of Foreign Goods imported
during that year :--
Cotton Goods. Tls. 64,459,818
Cotton Yarn
35,085,376
Soap Seaweed...
851,494
932,269 Flour
Candles
398,118
386,971
Opium
21.279,332
Piece Goods
789,628
Birds' Nests
368,039
Sugar..
7,688,136
Gunny & Straw Bgs. 708,673
Lamps & Lampware 364,304
Kerosine Oil...
6,993,579
Matches
698,617
Paper...
303,955
Metals
...
6,034,259
Household Stores
659,446
Sharkfins
316,188
Coal
3,556.914
Sandalwood...
611,451
Umbrellas...
310,066
Cotton(Raw)
3,332,302
Ginseng
607,225
Haberdashery, etc., 306,756
3,168,880
Beche de Mer...
519,620
Hardware
Needles
524,152
Rice...
Leather and L. Gds. 459,784
Medicines...
Machinery
147,289
Sundries
2 4,596
254,566
251,566
12,171,100
Stationery
436,412
Woollen Goods
1,680,902
Dyes and Colours 1,987,083 Timber Tobacco, Cigars, &c.1,513,912 Glass and G'ware 1,029,507 Wine, Beer, Spirits 996,479
Clocks & Watches 435,267
Total Hk. Tls.183,295,031
Of the total an amount to the value of Haikwan Tls. 129,900,084 was re-exported; namely to the Yangtsze ports Hk. Tls. 59,914,225, to the Northern ports Hk. Tls. 51,040,070, to the Central ports Hk. Tls. 11,881,351, to Southern ports Hk. Tls. 1,235,247, to Russian Manchuria Hk. Tls. 192,558, to Corea Hk. Tls. 2,091,345, to Japan Hk. Tls. 638,000, to Hongkong Hk. Tls. 1,861,445, to Continent of Europe, Russia excepted, Hk. Tls. 214,372, to Great Britain Hk. Tls. 184,202, to United States of America and the Philippine Islands Hk. Tls. 86,868, and to other Foreign Countries Hk. Tls. 277,631, seaving a balance for local consumption and stock of Hk. Tls. 53,394,9 7.
Imports to the value of Tls. 64,981 were sent to the interior under Transit Passes.
Native Produce to the value of Hk. Tls. 85,995,730 was imported in foreign vessels ; namely, from Yangtsze Ports, Tls. 48,964,237, from Northern Ports Tls. 18,937, 89, from Central Ports Tls. 12,198, 87, from Southern Ports Tls. 5,894,717, almost all of which was re-exported, the net native imports amounting to Hk Tls. 8,548,658.
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