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The following comparative table enumerates the principal sundries imported into China from abroad during the years 1913, 1922 and 1923:—
1913
Munitions of war
...
...Value, Hk. Tls.
6,738,454
Bags of all kinds
(Pieces
32,049,708
1922 937,280 29,671,624
1923 792,448 30.381,876
Piculs
168,852
168,380
Building materials...
...
.Value, Hk. Tls.
2,444,787
9,861,574
8,990,350
Candles
Piculs
50,383
107,969
28,844
...
Casks, empty, and shooks...Value, Hk. Tls.
634,714
1,311,307
1,248,657
Rice and paddy
Piculs
...
...
...
5,414,896
19,156,182
22,434,962
Cigarettes Cigars Coal
Mille
6,209,037
9,837,127
10,116,893
...
...
38,565
32,242
25,255
...
...
""
...
Raw cotton
Paints and paint oil
Flour ... Gasolene, etc.
...
...
...
Tons Piculs
1,690,892
1,151,392
1,366,108
134,735
1,780,618
1,613,387
72,764
215,048
204,528
""
2,596,821
3,600,967
5,826,540
Gallons
465,577
4,818,271
6,307,815
Liquid fuel
Tons
12,065
62,764
...
...
57,267
Ginseng
Catties
...
...
334,816
270,839
202,618
India-rubber goods
...Value, Hk. Tls.
360,529
2,723,740
1,972,479
Manures
Piculs
908,557
983,552
1,049,298
...
...
Matches
Gross
28,448,155
2,702,996
2,241,126
...
...
Milk, condensed
(Dozens
483,720
73,116
83,715
Piculs
53,605
63,288
Kerosene oil...
Gallons
...
183,984,052
209,192,102
214,835,669
Lubricating oil
2,449,586
...
...
6,306,790
7,499,880
""
Railway materials
...Value, Hk. Tls.
4,317,694
8,723,597
4,559,826
Bicycles
...
Seaweed and agar-agar
Locomotives and tenders...
Railway cars and wagons... Motor cars and lorries
Beer and porter
Spirits (exclusive of spirits
Piculs
...
...
635,978
609,779
692,364
Soap and soap-making materials,
Value, Hk. Tls.
2,684,511
2,563,429
2,874,401
768,628
4,406,201
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1,169,680
1,193,823
9,261,991
""
1,727,539
485,182
2,297,155
...
2,155,967
128,957
443,188
...
""
597,280
724,177
976,622
811,111
""
of wine)
Postal parcels
994,648
1,334,812
""
2,119,451
2,413,961
6,927,232
7,017,984
Iron and mild steel, manufactured and old
The total net importation in 1923 of all the articles included in the metals and minerals group was valued at 44.9 million taels, as compared with 49.9 million taels in the previous year and with 60.1 million taels in 1921. Important decreases were registered by copper ingots and slabs, nails and rivets, rails, old iron and mild steel, and plate cuttings, but angles and tees, bars, hoops, and tinned plates were all imported in considerably enhanced quantities.
Copper
...
1923
1913
1922
Piculs
Piculs
Piculs
218,144
616,921
255,152
3,520,049
5,567,005
4,732,003.
""
galvanized: sheets rnd wire
...
...
291,585
400,453
383,973,
Lead
...
...
...
...
118,335
124,350
183,401
Quicksilver
...
Steel
...
...
654 149,701
324
88,849
1,435 137,018.
Tin, in slabs and manufactured
Tinned plates
fl Iron ores
...
52,781
51,247
58,544
...
363,366
252,723
493,162.
...
...
...
1,596
21,171
51,399
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