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CHINA
The Exports to foreign countries, exclusive of re-export of foreign goods, were :— Silk, Raw, Ref. & Cocoons Hk. Tls. 65,687,302 Provisions & Vegetables. Hk. Tls. 2,100,802. Tea
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30,201,964 Medicines.
Cotton, Raw....
24,811,595 Hemp...
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1,946,788- 1,854,134
Silk Piece Goods...
12,568,110 Fruit
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1,785,407
Hides, Horns & Bristles..
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9,796,641 China, E'ware, Pottery...
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1,663,921
Skins and Rugs........
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7,327,542 Eggs, Fresh & Preserved
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1,651,860
Beans and Beancake............
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Wool....
35
7,282,723 Clothing, Boots & Shoes.. 5,076,879 Opium
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1,651,735-
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1,445,978
Mats and Matting
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Strawbraid
4,526,082 Vermicilli & Macaroni. 4,502,820 Nankeens...
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1,434,305.
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1,433,428-
Oil, Vegetable......
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Minerals, Mostly Tin
Paper
4,278,414 Timber.........
3,841,586 Sugar
3,766,700
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1,390,336
1,356,179
Feathers
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1,172,805-
Cattle, Sheep, Pigs, Goats
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3,120,190 Sundries..
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26,527,151
Fire-crackers & Firework
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2,717,906
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2,565,400
Total......... 239,486,683-
Tobacco....
Goods to the value of Tls. 66,320,042 were conveyed to, and to the value of Tls. 22,473,609 were brought from, the interior under transit passes.
The total carrying trade, foreign and coastwise, was divided amongst the different flags as under.
Entries and
Clearances
Tonnage
British..
33,118
Values
32,995,026 Tls. 840,910,770
Percentages Tonnage Trade.
51.64
52.89
German
6,835
7,602,280
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159,390,683
11.92
10.02
Japanese..
4,321
4,273,430
62,309,439
6.73
3.92
Swedish and Norwegian
1,596
1,404,648
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34,744,183
2.20
2.19.
French....
2,376
1,262,694
35,797,440
1'98
2.25
American
1,529
645,559
1,2474,131
1:45
*78
Other Countries
1,095
586,299
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14,365,110
*92
*90
Chinese
82,326
13,001,778
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430,065,091
23.16
27.05
133,196
61,771,714
,, 1,590,036,847
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The vessels entered and cleared in 1904 were made up of 75,338 Steamers of 57,652,481 tons, and 148,497 Sailing Vessels of 6,122,225 tons; the latter including 4,588,241 tons of native shipping not formerly included in the returns.
The gross Coast trade in vessels of foreign build amounted to Tls. 472,080,988- outward, and Tls. 507,660,458 inward, the net native imports (that is goods not re-ex- ported) at the Treaty Ports being Tls. 163,073,177, and the exports to Treaty Ports Tls. 132,036,189.
The Imperial Maritime Customs revenue for the same year amounted to Haikwan Taels 31,493,156, and was derived from
Opium Opium T'nage Transit Duty. Lekin. Dues. Dues. 1,446,585 3,780,013 935,089 1,371,019- 1,117,050 602,070 57,495 416,233
Foreign Native
Total
Import Export Coast T'de
Duty. Duty. Duty. 9,327,394 7,211,095 1,042,581 1,288,532 2,270,421 627,577
10,615,926 9,481,516 1,670,158 2,563,635 4,382,083 992,584 1,787,252 Mr. H. B. Morse, Statistical Secretary to the Imperial Martime Customs, in his report on the Foreign Trade of China for 1904, says:-
"Among Imports we find that textiles, a third of the whole, alone show no expansion, a fact duc directly to the inflated cost of the raw material. Various causes have had their influence in producing the depression which characterised certainly the first nine months of the year, but among all other causes the fluctuations in exchange must not be lost sight of. Trade can adjust itself to a low exchange or to a high exchange, or even to a shifting exchange if the movement can be foreseen; but a state of things which introduces the element of gambling into the business of every day, which makes it impossible for a merchant to estimate the amount in one currency which will give him a profit in another, and which may even make it doubtful if a. profit actually realised in one currency can be safely landed in another, all this. increases the cost of trading by enforcing the wisdom of large margins, which naturally acts as a restraint on trade.
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