SHANGHAI
The following tables show the export of Tea and Silk for eight years:-
715
1915...
1916...
1917...
11
Tea-Black Brick Green
Silk 1914...piculs 196,817 400,015 277,563 1914...54,927
273,076 434,466
311,605 1915...79,089 222,384 404,910 296,214 1916...66,609 175,232 214,570 208,292
Wild 13,727
Waste Cocoons
52,474 20,863
24,260 39,879 31,170
10,986
06,448 23,398
1917...66,837
11,826
171,451
29,428
1918...
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73,351
1919... 1920... 1921...
146,232
17
40,248
"
48,341
79,716 164,175 149,344 249,658
4,642
157,063 13,820 249,113
1918...60,943 15,525 1919...82,289 14,099
81,467
28,550
77,988
30,894
1920...46,889
9,412
51,496 24,544
1921...28,260
456
18,074 18,211
The Import trade in Foreign Goods for 1921 was as follows:-
From Foreign Countries and Hongkong From Chinese Ports
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...
...
...
Hk. Tls. 425,513,930 5,787,873
Hk. Tls. 431,301,803
The following were the net values, after deducting re-exports, of the principal classes of Foreign Goods imported during that year:-
Tls. 6,473,067 | Ginseng
Gunny & Cotton
Tls. 1,342,032
1,139,904
749,610
486,900
264,728
11,709,574
Cotton Goods. Tls. 45,346,780] Coal Cotton, Raw 30,619,618 Kerosene Oil, &c. 5,835,142 Fish, Salted, &c. Machinery...
29,460,562 Wol. and C'ton Mix. Tobacco,Cigars&c. 17,587,643 and Wol. Goods 16,372,420 Dyes and Colours 14,917,589 Timber
7,172,317 Cotton Yarn 7,019,724 Misc. Piece Goods
Metals Sugar
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Electl. Metal, &c. Paper...
**
5,815,644 Bags. 5,486,148 Leather 5,384,150 Soap 2,164,824 Sundries 1,937,271
...
...
Total Hk. Tls. 217,285,647
Of the total gross value of goods imported (Hk. Tls. 431,301,803), goods valued at Hk. Tls. 13,757,432 were re-exported to Foreign Countries and Hongkong, and goods valued at Hk. Tls. 200,258,724 to Chinese Ports (chiefly to Northern and Yangtsze Ports). A striking feature of the last two or three years' trade has been the rapid growth in the part played by America in the commerce of the port.
The gross value of trade with foreign countries is shown below:-
America (including 3 million from Philippine Islands) Great Britain
Japan (including Formosa and Korea)
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...
...
British Dependencies (excluding Hongkong) Hongkong
...
France (including 1.9 million from Indo-China)
Netherlands (including 11.9 million from Dutch Indies)
Germany
Belgium
Italy
Sweden
Other countries
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:
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Total
Million Hk
174.5
146.0
...
108.0
63.4
53.3
31.9
19.1
15.5
6.6
4.5
1.9
..
11.3
636.0
The main factors responsible for the advance shown are: the working off of orders contracted for in 1919 and 1920; the industrial development, which has taken root and which accounted for large importations of machinery; the vitality of China's ever-increasing list of exports; and the return of Central Europe, both as a buyer of China's products to replenish her denuded markets and as a seller of manu- factured goods.
goods. With the extremely low mark exchange ruling during the year, varying from 30 to 200 marks to a Shanghai tael, Germany made great strides towards regaining some of her lost trade. This advantage must be regarded as
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