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CHINA

GOI

destroyers, and 50 torpedo-boats, with a crew of 10,500 men. The scheme is apparently pigeon-holed at Peking for the present.

TRADE AND INDUSTRY

The ports open to trade are:-Newchwang, Chinwantao, Tientsin, Chefoo, Shanghai, Soochow, Chinkiang, Nanking, Wuhu, Kewkiang, Hankow, Yochow, Changsha, Shasi, Ichang, Chungking, Hangchow, Ningpo, Wenchow, Santu, Foochow, Amoy, Swatow, Canton, Samshui, Wuchow, Kongmoon, Nanning, Kiungchow, and Pakhoi. Lungchow, Mêngtsz, Szemao and Tengyuch, on the frontiers of Tonkin and Burmah, and Yatung in Tibet, are stations under the cognisance of the Foreign Customs. The import trade, exclusive of the Colony of Hongkong, centres chiefly at Shanghai, Canton, and Tientsin, while the bulk of the exports pass through the ports of Shanghai, Canton and Hankow. The annual value of the trade of China coming under the supervision of the Imperial Maritime Customs was as follows:-

Net Imports from Foreign Countries. 1900...Hk. Tls. 211,070,422

Net Exports to Foreign Countries.

Total of Foreign trade. 370,067,174 437,959,675 529,545,489 541,091,600 ,, 583,574,291

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1901...

268,302,918

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158,996,752 169,656,757

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1902...

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315,303,905

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1903...

326,739,133

214,181,584 214,352,467

1904...

344,060,608

239,486,683

1901 equals at

Mex. $371,204,359 £34,326,424

Ex. 1.55, Mex. $533,293,942

Ex. 2s. 103d., £49,315,354

Mex. $904,498,301

£83,641,778

Net Imports of Native Goods

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108,036,714

125,454,462

136,259,955

161,312,323

163,073,177

Mex. $25 ',763,424

£23,373,822

The following was the net value of commodities imported direct from and exported direct to Foreign Countries in 1904. These figures do not include the trade carried on with neighbouring countries in Chinese junks, which does not come within the control of the Foreign Customs:--

Hongkong

Japan (including Formosa) Great Britain

Imports Exports

Hk. Tls. 141,085,010

Total

86,858,017

227,943,027

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50,164,056

37,986,858

88,150,914

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57,220,955

15,269,963

72,490,918

Continent of Europe, except Russia United States of America

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23,512,933 44,512,544

68,025,477

29,180,946

27,087,975

56,268,921

India

32,219,712

2,3-6,781

34,606,493

Straits and other British Colonies. Russia, Siberia and Russian Manchuria... Macao.

6,721,192

4,515,281

11,236,473

4,467,476

5,056,36 !

9,523,838

2,894,593

5,058,741

7,953,334

Other Foreign Countries .............

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9,977,790

10,754,161

20,731,951

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357,444,663 239,486,683 596,931,346 Imports to the amount of Hk. Tls. 13,384,055 were re-exported to foreign countries, namely, to America Tls. 3,429,689; to Japan (including Formosa), Tls. 3,064,046; to Corea, Tls. 2,041,471; to Europe, Tls. 815,077; to Hongkong Tls. 2,557,497; to other countries Tls. 1,476,275. The chief article re-exported was Formosa Tea, to the value of Tls. 3,945,815, mostly to America.

The following were the values of net imports from foreign countries in 1904, that is exclusive of re-exports to foreign countries: - Cotton Goods ...... .Hk. Tls. 124,083,305 Timber

37,094,172 Wine, Beer, Spirits......

Hk. Tls. 2,495,981

Opium......

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2,077,509

Kerosine Oil.

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Metals

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27,980,043 Miscellaneous Piece Goods 21,234,775 Dyes, Aniline

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1,958,859

1,864,501

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Sugar.

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18,281,458 Medicines

1,506,297

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Rice and Rice Bran

10,691,188 Household Stores

1,491,817

Coal

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7,160,675 Indigo...

1,476,214

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Railway Plant...

6,046,459 Ginseng

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1,412,384

Fish & Fishery Products

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5,510,956 Glass and Glassware

1,170,710

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Matches.....

4,773,197 Soap and Perfumery

1,108,469

Woollen Goods.

4,161,319

Sandalwood

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1,086,665

Flour

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3,591,071 Woollen & Cton Mixtures

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1,032,882

Cigarettes and Cigars Bêche de Mer & Seaweed Machinery. Paper..

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3,279,713 Cotton, Raw....... .......................

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1,013,068

2,789,586 Sundries......

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42,550,264

2,660,039

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2,549,032

Total.........344,060,608