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“...CHINA.
(d) Trade with Asiatic Countries (excluding India).
Market Value.* Increase
or Decrease
i in 1903.
1902. ! 1903.
£ i £ £
Japan and Formosa
Imports from .. 4,595,000 6,627,850 + 2,032,850
Exports to Russian Manchuria 3,734,700 4,010,240 + 275,540
Imports from .. 44,917 51,810 + 6,893
Exports to Philippine Islands 370,579 297,210 73,369
Imports from 111,510 I 67,730 43,780
Exports to Corea 19,280 | i 47,667 + 28,387
Imports from 163,030 1 186,652 + 22,722
Exports to French Indo-China 135,045 | i 167,145 + 31,500
Imports from .. 240,645 228,143 - 12,502
Exports to Macao 156,300 191,792 + 35,492
Imports from .. 323,770 ! 327,448 + 3,678
Exports to Dutch East Indies 646,490 i i 614,212 32,278
Imports from .. 170,300 ! 489,115 + 318,815
Exports to Siam 65,435 60,045 5,390
Imports from .. 127,490 15,386 - 112,104
Exports to Singapore and Straits 120,990 146,074 + 25,084
Imports from 534,160 501,165 32,995
Exports to 393,500 460,990 + 67,490
Total 11,954,641 14,490,674 +...”
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“...7,426 chests and the value by
1,166,265L The cost to the consumer rose 7 per cent., from an aver-
age of 700 Haikuan taels per pcul in 1902 to an average of 750
Haikuan taels per picul in 1903, but, nevertheless, the demand
exceeded the supply. The complete failure of the 1902 crop of native
opium, and the ensuing depletion of stocks are the causes of this
abnormal increase, and demonstrate the fact that China must have
opium no matter at what cost.
The cultivation of opium is extending in Manchuria, and last
year 2,015 piculs, as against 865 piculs in 1902, were brought down to
Newchwang for shipment. The production in Ssuchuan is also
growing, and is reported to have been upwards of 250,000 piculs in
1903. As the drug, however, is to a large extent either smuggled
out of that province or passes through likin barriers, the figures of
the Maritime Customs afford no indication of the quantities actually
exported to other parts of the Empire.
100 square miles is the estimated area under poppy...”
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“...as the four Shanghai
mills alone have a daily output of about 5,000 sacks, and ship to
the north some 50,000 to 60,000 sacks per month (at the rate of about
270,000 cwts. per annum), and the Wuhu mill exported 12,000 cwts.
A demand from Japan and the requirements of the newly started
mills at Harbin, which, had war not broken out, would have
experienced no difficulty in eventually depriving foreign flour of its
outlet in that part of the world, gave a stimulus to the production of
wheat in Manchuria.
An experimental shipment of Canadian flour was not a success,
its quality entailing a higher price than the consumer was prepared
to pay; the attention of New South Wales is, it is said, being also
attracted by the promising opening which this market offers.
In connection with what has been said above on the subject of imports from
imports from Japan, the following is a list extracted from the Japan.
Japanese returns of the value of the principal items :...”
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“...export of the period 1898-1902,
the advance was at the rate of 16 per cent. According to the customs
returns, main quantities were distributed as under :
To Black Tea. Green Tea.
Leaf. 1 Brick. Leaf. j Brick.
Lbs. Lbs. Lbs. Lbs.
United Kingdom 15,408,400 5,188,400
United States Continent of Europe (Russia 13,575,200 18,487,600
excepted) 0,831,200 .. 1,680,800
Russia, via Odessa and Batoum 10,778,800 9,940,000
Russia and Siberia, via Kiakta 4,084,800 | 3,022,000 25,515,000
Russian Manchuria 1,992,400 19,903,200 3,661,600
Dalny and Port Arthur* 19,490,800 26,386,800 3,968,000
Cochin-Cliina .. 1,300,000
Total 79,551,600 49,312,000 j 35,296,800 1 33,145,200 -j
Grand total 128,863,600 68,442,000
* Ultimate destination probably Russian Siberia.
It was found impossible to record the destination of 16,920,400 lbs.
carried to Hong:Kong for transhipment. The Board of Trade
returns give the total imports into the United Kingdom from China,
Hong-Kong and Macao at 21,597,553 lbs., or...”
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