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No. V.-A SYNOPTICAL TABLE of the IMPORT TRADE to Foreign Countries from the PORT OF SHANGHAE, during the year ending 31st December, 1853, specifying the description and QUANTITIES of COMMODITIES as well as their estimated value, and distinguishing the National Character of the Ships in which they were Imported.
QUANTITIES
AND IN WHAT SHIPS IMPORTED.
DESCRIPTION
OF
COMMODITIES.
127 BRITISH. 57 AMERICAN.
8 Dutch
1 Danish 1 Russlan 1 French
? Prussian
Hamburgh
1 Austrian
2 Swedish
Spanish
1 Portuguese
↑ Siamese
AGGREGATE
QUANTITIES
IMPORTED.
ESTIMATED
VALUE IN
STERLING AT
6s. 6d. Ex-
CHANGE PER
DOLLAR.
Manufactures of Cotton.
Long Cloth Grey,
White,...
English Cotton Goods,
Printed Cottons,
Fancy
"
Dyed
Drills,
Jeans,
Sheetings,
Velvets,
Velveteens,
Domestics,
...
Muslins,
***
Handkerchiefs,...
Cotton Yarn,
Manufactures of Wool.
Broad Cloths,...
***
Long Ells,...
Camlets,
*
Woollens,
Inferior do.,
Pieces
+
1,345,860 223,328
1,345,860
£597,056
223,328
109,065
142,130
114,875 87,181
126,872 9,200
269,002 208,469
124,075
41,357
87,181
29,060
72,936
72,936
24,312
18,078 322,345
340,423
328,947
46,742
46,742
45,573
91,885
91,885
76,149
..Value
£16,970
£16,970
16.970
£12,109
£880
£12,989
12,989
..Pieces
1,621
1,621
520
1,100
}
1,100
325
...Dozen
1,000
600
250
1,850
3,575
Piculs
560
560
2,240
...Changs
28,287
28,287
24,953
113,729
1,213
114,942
44,915
"
65,300
65,300
21,766
Pieces
8,130
656
8,786
54,444
...Value
£5,185
£5,185
5,185
Miscellaneous Articles, Raw and
Manufactured.
Iron,
Piculs
1,420
1,420)
1,183
***
Lead,...
12,632
1,023
300
13,955
23,599
"
Tin,
182
221
403
956
Tin Plates,
...Boxes
295
334
629
1,592
***
Flints,
Glass and Glass-Ware,...
Coals,
Timber,
Buttons,
other Skins....
Piculs ...Value
Tons ...Value
1,300
400
1,700
513
£2,800
€2,800
2,800
1,628
1,654
1,598
$4,880
19,536
£2,800
£1,300
£4,100
4,100
£826
Fur, Beaver, Otter, and
Products of India and other
Bicho de Mar,
Birds' Nests,
Countries.
}
£9,452
£1,268
£826
£10,720
826
10,770
"
Cloves,...
Pepper, Rattans,
Indigo,
Rice,
Sugar,
Sandal-Wood,
Sapan-Wood,
Ebony-Wood,
Laka-Wood
་་་
*
***
Piculs
425
225
650
4,674
60
60
400
25
25
150
"
2,050
2,050
5,040
11,220
5,674
763
17,657
19,901
...Value
£1,300
£1,300
1,300
£768
£1,328
£2,096
2,096
*
£32,563
£4,542
**
17,856
£54,961
54,961
Piculs
***
...
220 56
220
440
56
34
39
165
165
220
55
49
49
49
Value
£15,443
£15,331
£10,000
£40,774
40,774
£1,045,141 £663,459
£134,634
£1,843,234
Mats and Unenumerated,
China Cargo, Stores
and Sundries
Estimated value of total Imports,
British Consulate, Shanghae, 31st December, 1853.
RUTHERFORD ALCOCK,
Consul.
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