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SHANGHAI
TRADE AND COMMERCE
Shanghai is the great emporium for the trade of the Yangtsze and Northern and Corean ports, and to some extent for Japan. The total import and export trade of 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 was, however, a rapid recovery up to 1905; the total trade import and export, for the last seven years, as given by the Customs Statistical Department, being
1910... Hk. Tls. 471,071,623 at Ex. 1.48 Mex. $701,896,718 at Ex. 2s.
84d., £94,317,071
1911...
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484,202,222
1.48
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1912...
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491,485,487
1.52
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$716,619,288 $747,057,940
2s.
8 d., £96,295,716
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3s.
0ğd., £114,004,154
1913...
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533,534,878
1.51
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$805,637,665
3s.
Od., £121,684,855
1914...
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498,695,147
1.47
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$733,081,866
2s.
8d., £100,035,129
1915...
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549,379,765
1.41
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$774,625,468
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2s. 7 d., £100,459,240
1916...
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571,245,672
1.54
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$879,718,335
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3s. 31 d.,£145,932 442
Green
The following tables show the export of Tea and Silk for eight years:-
Tea-Black Brick
Silk Wild
Waste Cocoons
1909...piculs 140,121
247,067
297,860
1909...60,301
26,996
52,487 15,083
1910...
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173,100
308,528
264,752
1910...66,116
23,379
75,360
13,948
1911...
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177,294
37,688
307,917
1911...59,224 27,679
81,064 16,313
1912...
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220,190
364,420
314,396
1913...
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141,711
502,460
1914... 1915... 1916...
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196,817
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273,076
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222,384 404,910
1912...86,554 14,899 76,301 290,985 1913...73,446 23,762 76,480 19,530 400,015 277,565 1914...54,927 13,727 52,474 20,863 434,466 311,605 1915...79,089 24,260 39,879 31,170 296,214 1916...66,609 10,986 106,448 23,398
The Import trade in Foreign Goods for 1916 was as follows:- From Foreign Countries and Hongkong
From Chinese Ports
400
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Hk. Tls. 207,034,740 6,026,732
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Hk. Tls. 213,061,472
The following were the values of the principal classes of Foreign Goods imported during that year:--
Cotton Goods. Tls. 43,035,523] Coal
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Tls. 5,657,431 Gunny & C'ton Bgs. 1,818,961 Cotton Yarn 24,638,031 Dyes and Colours 3,550,638 Paper Tls. 1,742,886 Tobacco, Cigars &c.18,485,818 Timber
3,034,891 ElectricalM'tal.,&c. 1,709,911
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18,792
Sugar
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Metals
Opium...
Kerosene Oil, &c. Cotton, Raw
12,865,370 Machinery... 12,756,567 Misc. Piece Goods
9,602,685 Ginseng 9,242,593 Wol. and C'ton Mix 7,865,857 and Wol. Goods
2,564,625 Leather
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1,675,677
2,516,951 Soap
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1,369,497
2,195,669
Paraffin Wax
1,316,517
Fish, Salted, &c.
1,283,243
1,974,437
Sundries
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42,457,694
Total Hk. Tls. 213.061.472
Of the total an amount to the value of Haikwan Tls. 128,877,972 was re-exported, namely, to Foreign Countries and Hongkong Hk. Tls. 8,795,196; and to Chinese Ports (chiefly to Northern and Yangtsze Ports) Hk. Tls. 120,082,776, leaving for local con- sumption a stock to the value of Hk. Tls. 84,183,500.
Native Produce to the value of Hk. Tls. 236,327,384 was imported from Chinese Ports, almost all of which was re-exported, namely, to Chinese Ports, Tls. 42,665,934 and to Foreign Countries and Hongkong, Tls. 159,229,426, the net native imports amounting to Hk. Tls. 34,432,024.
The total values of Exports and Re-Exports of Native Produce to Foreign Countries. Hongkong and Chinese ports in 1916 were:-
Silk
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Tls. 55,331,967 | Metals... C'ton.Gds. & Yarn 40,300,198 Hides
Tea
Cotton, Raw Silk M❜tures.
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31,292,599 Oil
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Tls. 13,480,250 | Wool
Tls. 9,271,982 11,195,013 Ground-nutPulp 8,490,460 10,938,544 T'bco., Cigs., &c.... 8,282,288 10,817,248 | Egg Albn. and Yolk 7,076,183 14,540,879 Seeds & Seed Cake 10,350,077 | Tallow...
6,190,464
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... 16,256,766 | Flour
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