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“...the immense improvement in drills is confined to the American
product, while the reverse is the case as to sheetings, Dutch drills,
jeans and sheetings (2,685,460 and 600 pieces) appear separately
for the first time as do blankets (10,7*73 pairs), and cotton Spanish
stripes (3,417 pieces valued at 1,845/.), Japanese products, cloth,
crape and yarn have not shared in the general prosperity.
The Shanghai Mills sent up 375 pieces of drills, valued at 9d.
less than the British import; their sheetings fell off slightly, while
Wuchang shirtings rose from 4,731 to 5,970 pieces. The local
mills have proved so unsuccessful under native official management
that the Viceroy contemplates leasing them to Japanese capitalists.
The gross import of Indian yarn has again surpassed Japanese;
as before most of the former was re-exported to the West whither
went only 9,955 cwts. of the latter. In the transit pass-trade
likewise the Indian yarn figures are four times the Japanese, which
declined enormously...”
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“...gallons appearing
in the customs returns as re-exported, though no less than 1,919,030
gallons went inland under pass, chiefly to Szecliuen and Kiangsi,
even Yunnan took 1,850 gallons.
The stoppage of work at the Wuchang mills brought the net
import of raw cotton down to the insignificant figure of 2,040 cwts.;
the export of local cotton rose again from 28,041 to 32,236 cwts.
The movement of the Chinese Court reduced the import of
tribute rice from 320,855 to 115/719 cwts., but some 80,000 cwts.
were imported in the ordinary way, while the relief of the sufferers
from the Yangtse floods last summer brought the export of duty-
free rice from 24,686 cwts. up to 41,938 cwts.
The net import of foreign flour increased 12 per cent., to
5,812 cwts., while the Shanghai and Wuhu mills supplied
9,756 cwts., against 1,435 cwts. in 1900.
Nearly 5,300 cwts. of maize from Nanking for local consump-
tion is a new item, as is the import from Kewkiang of over
940 cwts. of liquid indigo.
The import of morphia...”
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