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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 :-
1896... Hk. Tls. 226,912,516 at Ex. 1.53 Mex. $347,176,149 at Ex. 3s.
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1897...
265,678,990
1.50
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1898...
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251,205,837
1.51
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1899... 1900... 1901... 1902...
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306,701,390
1.53
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243,606,777
1.55
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298,454,780
1.52
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8398,518,485 $379,320,814 $469,253,127 $377,590,504 $453,651,266
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346,122,864
1,51
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1903...
351,200,609
1.54
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$522,645,525 $541,348,938
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4d., £37,818,752
2s. 11 d., £39,575,099 2s. 10 d., £36,241,775 38. Oğd., £46,164,949 3s. 1d., £37,809,802 2s. 11 d., £44,224,159 2s. 7., £44,995,972 28. 7 d., £46,338,969
The following tables show the export of Tea and Silk for six years:-
Tea- Black Brick Green
1898...piculs 320,994
466,421
1899...
133,775
151,985
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1900... 1901... 1902... 1903...
230,623
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Silk Wild Waste Cocoons 185,880 1898...56,605 11,737 41,726 6,795 201,839 1899...84,720 17,583 52,008 9,016 210,912
196,542 1900...48,355 13,068 39,157 6,484 178,075 168,877 192,277 1901...71,358 14,115 36,668 4,823 185,255 101,643
250,560
19.2...63,370 10,819 39,515
9,493 231,025 181,832 294,861 1903...38,162 15,945 45,692 15,633
1903 may be summarised as follows:-
The Import trade in Foreign Goods for From Great Britain Hk. Tls. 45,810,824 From Hongkong.....
From India
...
From Japan and Formosa
From United States ...
From Continent of Europe
during that year :-
36,266,500
31,574,999
25,609,015
From other Countries From Chinese Ports
From Straits & Australia Hk. Tls. 3,181,284 From Russia
1,908,078
3,254,658
...
1,028,397
22,695,894
13,891,707
Hk. Tls. 185,221,356
The following were the values of the principal classes of Foreign Goods imported
Cotton Goods. Tls. 50,434,509
Cotton Yarn... ...41,864,933
Opium
Kerosine Oil...
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Seaweed Soap...
Matches
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... 1,080.927
Pepper
1,015,911
26,638,947
973,283
...
7,737,408
Ginseng
962,236
450,216 Leather and L. Gds. 382,898 Umbrellas Hides...
358,689
...
7,473,763
Machinery.
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884,054
Flour
6,378,769
Beche de Mer
682,733
4,759,527
Glass and G'ware
639,116
...
Hardware ...
Haberdashery, etc., 322,629
...
...
345,766 338,835
...
336,887
Candles
...
626,339
Sharktins
Paper
635,623
Braid...
Household Stores
543,970
Medicines
...
Clocks & Watches
531,099
Stationery...
Needles ...
504,207
Sundries...
...
...
299,729
269,333
293,836
277,834
...
13,778,037
...
501,255
501,087
Metals
Sugar
Coal
...
...
Woollen Goods ... 3,268,650 Dyes and Colours 2,153,953 Tobacco, Cigars, &c. 1,750,260 Timber
1,443,257 Gunny&Straw Bgs. 1,277,441 Wine, Beer, Spirits 1,255,788 Piece Goods ... . 1,210,352
Birds' Nests Sandalwood
Total Hk. Tls. 185,221,356
Of the total an amount to the value of Haikwan Tls. 146,015,642 was re-exported; namely to the Yangtsze ports Hk. Tls. 77,606,969, to the Northern_ports Hk. Tls. 46,477,875, to the Central ports Hk. Tls. 14,259,119, to Southern ports Hk. Tls. 1,518,311, to Russian Manchuria Hk. Tls. 157,862, to Corea Hk. Tls. 2,245,567, to Japan Hk. Tls. 512,991, to Hongkong Hk. Tls. 1,647,470, to Continent of Europe, Russia excepted, Hk. Tls. 355,389, to Great Britain Hk. Tls. 258,448, to United States of America and the Philippine and Sandwich Islands Hk. Tls. 236,132, and to other Foreign Countries Hk. Tls. 739,509, leaving a balance for local consumption and stock of Hk. Tls. 39,205,714.
Imports to the value of Tls. 701,514 were sent to the interior under Transit Passes.
Native Produce to the value of Hk. Tls. 100,937,149 was imported in foreign vessels; namely, from Yangtsze Ports, Tls. 60,384,091, from Northern Ports Tls. 19,305,348, from Central Ports Tls. 14,013,715, from Southern Ports Tls. 7,233,995, almost all of which was re-exported, the net native imports amounting to Hk. Tls. 14,565,081.
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