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III-RETURN of the QUANTITIES and VALUE OF MERCHANDIZE Imported into SHANGHAE, in 127 British Fessels of 39,030 Tons, from the Countries and Places undermentioned during the Year ending 31st December, 1853,
No. IN. TARIFY
DENOMINATION OF GOODS.
BRITISH MANUFACTURES AND
STAPLE ARTICLES.
Manufactures of Cotton.
13
Long Cloth Grey,.
White,.
English Cotton Goods,
QUANTITIES.
FROM WHAT COUNTRIES IMPORTED
ESTIMATED VALUE IN STERLING a 68. 6d. per $
.Pieces
1,345,860
597,056
223,328
109,063
114,875
38,291
Printed Cottons,
Fancy
do.
Drills, .
Velvets,.
87,181
29,060
72,936
24,312
18,078
14,744
Value
16,970
Velveteens,
Domestics,
Muslins,
Handkerchiefs,
14
Cotton Yarn,.
Manufactures of Wool.
47
Broad Cloths &c., Changs
Long Ells,.
Camlets,
Inferior Woollens,
Pieces
1,621
35
1,100
.Dozen
1,000
Piculs
560
28,287 113,729
"
65,300
Value
Miscellaneous Articles, Raw
and Manufactured
30
Iron, Nail Road, &c., Piculs
•
Lead,
1,420 12,632
Tin,
182
Tin Plates,
.Boxes
295
19
Flints,
Piculs
1,300
20
Glass and Glass Ware . Value
Coals,
Tons
1,628
Timber,
Value
Buttons,
London, Liverpool, Colonies, and Canton.
12,109
520
325
225
2,240
£844,917
24,953
37,909
21,766
5,185
£89,813
1,183
21,053
970
590
433
2,800
6,512
2,800
826
Products of India and other
£37,167
Countries.
4
Bicho de Mar,
Birds' Nests,.
Cloves,
Pepper,
Rattans,
Indigo,
Rice,. Sugar,. Sugar Candy,
Sandal-Wood,
Sapan-Wood,
Ebony-Wood,
Laka-Wood,
.Piculs
425
3,116
60
400
25
"
150
""
2,050
5,041
J
11,220
13,720
Value
"
""
"
. Piculs
220
56
11
165 49
Miscellaneous Stores, &c., Val.
British India, Hongkong,
Total..
1,300
768
26,897
5,656
£57,058
440
34
220 49
£743
£15,443
£1,045,141
REMARKS. The preceding Returns have been compiled from the entries in the Books kept at this office. The Quantities specified are those that have paid or been declared for assessment of duty.-The weights and measures stated are those in use at Shanghae. 1 catty is equal to 1 pound avoirdupois, and 100 catties correspond with 1331 pounds in England. 1 chang is 4 English yards nearly.-The value given has in most instances been computed upon the average prices of the year in the Shang- hae market, and where this has been found impracticable, an approximate estimate has been subs- tituted. The reduction of the Spanish Dollars into Sterling has been made at the average Exchange of the year of 6s. 6d. per dollar. When trade under foreign flags has been included, the information has been derived from official records when these where accessible. The destruction of the Custom- house books on the capture of the City has made it impossible to give returns of duties levied on for- eign trade in the year ending December 1853.
RUTHERFORD ALCOCK,—-Consul.
sh Consulate, Shanghae, 31st December, 1853.
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