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“...opium .......................................... 3
,, native opium .............................................. 4
Foreign imports
Cotton goods ................................................... 5
Woollen goods .................................................. 5
Metals ......................................................... 5
Foreign sundries................................................ 5
Kerosene oil ................................................... 5
Native imports
Flour from Shanghai mills....................................... 6
Exports
Camphor ........................................................ 6
Tea ............................................................ 6
Timber.......................................................... 8
Transit trade .................................................... 8
Native customs ................................................... 8
Shipping ......................................................... 8
Junk trade ................................”
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“...apparent when the figures are given in silver, i.e., 17,670,714 Haikuan taels in 1909 compared with 17,150,000 Haikuan taels in 1908. Foreign imports declined from 1,017,636?. (7,632,264 taels) in 1908 to 927,833?. (7,125,758 taels) in 1909, and the exports from 1,005,166?. (7,538,746 taels) to 988,3881. (7,590,817 taels); while native imports increased from 263,865?. (1,978,990 taels) to 384,653?. (2,954,139 taels). This increase is mainly due to the large import of wheat flour from Shanghai mills and the enhanced value of the native opium imported. Exchange had again fallen ; the Haikuan tael being valued at 2s. 7JcL as against 2s. 8d. in 1908.
Opium, foreign.All kinds of foreign opium show a decrease from the 1908 figures but the Persian drug was some 100 cwts. above the five years' average. The total import was 3,045 cwts. compared with 3,415 cwts. in the previous yeara decrease of nearly 400 cwts. The-following table shows the course of the trade during the year :
Malwa. Patna. Benares...”
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“...at 118,710 gallons, but in 1909 it jumped to 898,865 gallonsan increase of over
760,000 gallons over the three years' average. This oil is heavier and therefore consumed more slowly than the Sumatra article. It is also slightly cheaper.
A small shipment of 5,800 gallons of Japanese oilthe first since 1901is recorded.
Sugar, white and refined, reached the highest figure in the past 10 years, while sugar candy increased by 5,571 cwts. over the 1908 import.
Native sundries.Flour from the Shanghai mills is rapidly ousting foreign flour from the Foochow market. In 1907, while only 2,321 cwts. of the Shanghai flour came in, no less than 302,652 cwts. of foreign flour were imported. Now the position is practically reversed, foreign flour being represented to the extent of 42,043 cwts. while Shanghai flour has gone to over 170,000 cwts.
Beans, medicines and native opium are the only other articles showing increases over the averages.
The small quantity of rice imported is an indication of the general...”
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“...materially increased. The increase in planks is mainly due to the export to the north for building purposes of planks turned out by the Chinese saw mill mentioned in the last report, which, I understand, has contracts sufficient to keep it engaged for some three years. The value of timber of all kinds exported amounted to 131,517?.
Transit trade.Goods to the value of 57,824?. were sent inland under transit pass. In addition to this, however, Chinese cotton yarn and wheat flour from the Shanghai mills to the value of 7,975?. and 337?. respectively were transported to the interior under special exemption certificate. Outward transit passes covered goods to the value of 135?. only.
Native customs.The trade through the native customs shows an increase of over 80,000?. compared with 1908.
As regards imports, increases are shown under the headings beans, bean oil, salt and dried fish and wheat.
Decreases are recorded in the export of fresh oranges, sugar cane and soft wood planks as compared with...”
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“...Return of Principal Articles of Import, into Foochow during the Years 1908-09continued.
Articles. Average, Five 1908. 1909. Increase or Decrease compared with- in 1909
Years 1904-08. 1908. Average, Five Years.
Native sundries Beans ... Cwts. 142,198 170,017 142,921 170,858 27,091 + 723
Flour, Shanghai mills ... ... ,, 14,566 66,808 19,639 + 104,050 + 156,292
Indigo, liquid ... ,, 23,676 17,285 - 2,354 - 6,391
Medicines £ 14,201 14,496 15,134 + 638 + 933
Opium ... Cwts. 897 1,315 1,368 + 53 + 471
Rice J) 17,304 4,325 108 - 4,217 - 17,196
Wheat ... 5, 81,900 30,106 30,823 + 717 51,077...”
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