Printed Matter Dyestuffs, Vegetable Spirituous Beverages Glass and Glassware
Rattan Sugar Sundry List
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Total
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CHINA
1934.
1935.
St. $
St. $
1936.
St. $
A9
2,496,285
2,209,714
2,389,114
2,290,499
2,300,171
1,514,701
1,064,981
1,013,096
1,129,152
312,739
250,324
372,329
116,305
113,507
200,138
29,113,814
2,018
3,995
29,648,705
25,048,303
24,638,676
...
535,214,279
575,809,060
705,741,403
The textile fibres group headed the list of exports, there being an increase of $6.4 million in the value of raw cotton sent abroad. Exports of silk also improved by over $3 million. Under the second category of animal and animal products, etc., bristles and eggs and egg products were higher by $9.1 million and $9.7 million respectively. Under the heading oils, tallow, and wax. wood oil was exported to a value of $73.4 million, an increase of $31.8 over the figure for 1935. Under ores, metals, and metallic products, tin ingots and slabs improved by $6.4 million and wolfram ore, (tungsten) by $2.6 million. Exports of cotton yarn declined by $6.8 million, while cross-stitch work and embroideries other than silk increased in value from $8.5 million to $19.1 million. Shelled groundnuts fell by $8.4 million. The export of hides and skins appreciably improved, while there was a slight increase of $1 million in the value of tea exported.
SHIPPING AND FREIGHT IN 1936.
According to the figures published by the League of Nations, the world total of mercantile tonnage under construction at the close of 1936 was appre- ciably higher at 2,251,200 tons as compared with 1,543,200 tons at the end of 1935, 1,251,700 tons in 1934, and 757,300 tons in 1933. The figures for 1936 are still short of the tonnage under construction in 1929, when the figures was 3,110,900 tons. Mercantile shipping launched during 1936 totalled 2,118,000 tons, as against 1,302,100 tons during 1935, 967,400 tons during 1934, and 489,000 tons during 1933. Average shipping launched for the period 1926-29 was 2,363,000 tons, so that, even taking into account the considerable pre- occupation with naval work, the figures for mercantile launching are getting back to pre-depression levels. Available world tonnage, making allowances for tonnage laid up, was, for the annual period ending June 1933, 56,172,000 tons, and, for the period ending June 1935, 59,286,000 tons. Recently the volume of idle tonnage has been reduced to almost negligible quantities, with actual total tonnage for the period ending June 1936 standing at 65,063,600 tons. According to the "Economist" index of freight rates based on 1913=100, the average level of freight rates improved from 80.8 in January 1936 to 110.2 for December 1936.
The total tonnage entered at the 15 leading ports of the world during 1935, the last year for which comprehensive figures are available, is given in the following table:-
New York London
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...
...
Rotterdam
Kobe
Osaka
(1936)
...
...
34,986,220 29,673,932
28,334,334
..
...
...
...
20,933,244 20,169,165
19,846,017*
18,826,779+
Hamburg Antwerp
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Philadephia
San Francisco
Liverpool
Marseilles
Singapore
...
18,214,977
18.068,910
...
17,841,304
...
... 17,415,334
...
...
16,636,626
Shanghai (1935)
Hong Kong
...
19,613,588
Los Angeles
... 16,611,897 15,139,535 14,380,275
* Including 2,428,477 steamer tonnage entered from inland places. Including 2,761,259 steamer tonnage entered from inland places.
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