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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 :-

1898... Hk. Tls. 251,205,837 at Ex. 1.51 Mex. $379,320,814 at Ex. 2s. 10gd., £36,241,775

3s. old., £46,164,949

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1899...

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1900... 1901...

306,701,390 243,606,777

1.53

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1.55

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$469,253,127 $377,590,504

298,454,780)

1.52

$453,651,266

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1902...

346,122,864

1.51

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1)

$522,645,525

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1903...

351.200,609

1.54

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11

11

1904... 1905...

405,064,260

1.55

**

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""

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443,954,22

1.55

8541,348,938 $627,849,603 $688,129,106

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3s. 1d., £37,809,802 28. 11., £44,224,159 28. 7d., £44,995,972 25. 7d., £46,338,969 28. 10d., £58,059,210 3s. 0., £66,778,120

The following tables show the export of Tea and Silk for six years:—

Ten-- Black

Brick Green

1900...picuis 210,912 230,623

1901...

178,075

168,877

Silk 1900...48,355 1901...71,358

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1902... 1903... 1904.... 1905...

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185,255

101,643

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231,025

11

182,810

97

137,532 243,341

104,323

98,389 259,077

Wild Waste Cocoons 196,542

13,068 39,157 6,484 192,277

14,115 36,668 4,823 250,560 1902...63,370 10.819 39,515 9,493 181,832 294,861 1903...38,162 15,945 45,692 15,633 1904...54,135 27.276 35,626 6,958 1905...45,766 19,201 55,570 9,247

The Import trade in Foreign Goods for 1905 was as follows:-

From Foreign Countries and Hongkong From Chinese Ports

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...

Hk. Tls. 258,381,378 1,194,387

Hk. Tls. 259,575,765

The following were the values of the principal classes of Foreign Goods imported during that year:—

Cotton Goods. Tls. 102,563,470 | Piece Goods... Tls. 1,439,992 | Flour

Cotton Yarn

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41,121,165 Candles

Metals...

19,607,562 | Sonp...

Opium

18,562,855 Paper

Kerosene Oil

10,346,009 | Matches

Sugar

Coal

8,604,648 | Railway Plant, &c.1,906,286 | Lamps & Lampware 438,715

Tls. 517,393

1,364,767 Household Stores

503,120

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1,287,641 Birds' Nests

485,520

1,219,009 | Haberdashery, &c. 483,534 1,047,801 | Needles

454,493

881,707 | Umbrellas ...

423.795

870,271 Hardware

416,167

664,468 | Cement

399,382

572,062 Silk & Ribbons...

399,143

568,619 Braid.

397,548

561,111 | Sundries...

18,220,501

536,551 Total Hk. Tls. 259,575,765

4,648,748 Glass and G'ware Tobacco, Cigars, &c. 4,594,935 | Seaweed Woollen Goods ... 4,049,980 | Beche de Mer Dyes and Colours 3,181,851 | Clocks & Watches Wine, Beer, Spirits 1,869,010 | Condensed Milk... Gunny & Straw Bgs. 1,738,677 Leather & L. Goods Machinery Timber

1,499,206 Soda

1,482,729 | Raw Cotten

545,324

Of the total an amount to the value of Haikwan Tls. 167,368,592 was re-exported namely, to Foreign Countries and Hongkong Hk. Tls. 10,199,186, and to Chinese Ports (chiefly to Northern and Yangtsze Ports) Hk. Tls. 157,169,406, leaving for local con- sumption a stock to the value of Hk. Tls. 92,207,173.

Imports to the value of Tis. 1,548,978 were sent to the Interior under Transit Passes.

Native Produce to the value of Hk. Tls. 112,274,251 was imported from Chinese Ports, almost all of which was re-exported, namely, to Chinese Ports Tls. 30,485,940, and to Foreign Countries and Hongkong Tls. 69,120,537, the net native imports amounting to Hk. Tls. 12,667,774.

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