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The principal features to be remarked in the reported Trade of the Port for

1902 are:

In Imports reported—

Increases in Opium

Rice

of 69.6°. of 32.3°/

Decreases in Hemp

of

26.5%

Flour

of

25.1%

"T

Coal

General of 15.7 %

of 13.4 °

Bulk Oil of

22.9 %-

Case Oil of

22.5%

37

""

29

Sugar

of 11.1

%

Cotton of

20.3%

"""

O

%

Timber of 10.7

The net increase under this head amounts to 482,476 tons.

In Exports, there is an increase reported of 126,814 tons.

In Transit Cargo

"

>>

"

†, 237,812

8. The total reported Import Trade of the Port for 1902 amounted to 26,037 vessels of 9,867,486 tons, carrying 6,921,928 tons of cargo, of which 4,549,531 tons were discharged at Hongkong. This does not include the number, tonnage or cargo of Local Trade Junks, or Steam Launches.

Cargo.

Country.

Ships.

Tons.

Discharged. In Transit.

CLASS I.

Canada,

23

47,673

19,735

Continent of Europe,

150

299,673

67,258

280,438

Great Britain,

173

503,847'

202,725

515,715

Mauritius,

6

6,069

7,611

United States,

152

437,971

231,257

95,061

CLASS II.

504

1,295,233

528,586

891,214

Australia and New Zealand....

57

107,094

67,637

38,664

India and Straits Settlements,

231

470,447

325,791

281,622

Тарап,......

415

1,019,501

913,800

380,611

Java and Indian Archipelago,

182

231,155

302,545

28,320

North Pacific,

2

832

350

Russia-in-Asia,

4

9,089

5,116

8.222

CLASS III.

891

1,838,118 1,615,239

737,439

North Borneo,

44

57,329

74,663

14,707

Coast of China,

1,382

1,835,498

309,165

633,011

Cochin-China,

195

228,585

305,329

37,962

Formosa,

111

94,842

43,780

6,030

Philippine Islands,

258

347,474

91,097

5,400

Hainan and Gulf of Tonkin,

361

274,097

272,975

42,934

Siam,

300

310,382

499,021

3,700

Wei-hai-wei,

1

2,700

CLASS IV.

2,652

3,150,907 | 1,596,030 743,744

River Steamers,--Canton, Macao and West

River,......

2,192

1,871,726

223,608

CLASS V.

Steam-launches trading to Ports outside the

Colony,

1,820

97,607

19,596

CLASS VI.

Junks in Foreign Trade,

17,978

1,613,895

566,472

Total,..

26,037

9,867,486 4,549,531 2,372,397

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