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“...-laine .. ..I 260,700- j 482,000
Woollen manufactures .. .J 109,560 210,800
Plate and sheet iron .. .. | 101,250 169,350
Kails ........i 36,328 90,225
This list of diminished imports could he considerably extended,
and the drop in the aggregate value would have been considerably
greater but for the compensating rise in a few articles such as
beans and bean cake, refined sugar and pig iron. The increase in
the bean cake is an unmistakable indication of the resumption of
business activity in Manchuria.
Kaw cotton. Over 40 per cent, of the import trade of the port was in raw
cotton, the leading staple. Even in this there was a falling-off of
about 1,800 tons, as compared with 1900, though owing to rise in
prices there was a slight increase in value. The quantities were
133,700 tons in 1901, as against 135,520 tons the year before, value
over 5,250.000/. The decrease is only about 2 per cent., hut as-
1900 was in several respects an abnormal year, the comparison
should be made with 1899 ; and...”
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