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“...customs only. To them has to be added the jvmk exports,
recently ascertained returns of the native customs, the approximate
quantities and values of which are as follows: —
Hard wood timber is exported by junk, but the figures for 1901
are not available.
Umbrellas, more commonly described as " kittysols," are Umbrellas,
shipped both as the finished article and the unfinished. Both
have a frame of bamboo, but while the former is covered with
coarse oiled paper to sell cheaply in Newchwang and Manchuria,
the latter is consigned to Shanghai to be made up into a better
class article for sale locally and in South China. The return for
the " Maritime " customs, 347,130 pieces, is the best on record,
though not so greatly above the average of the preceding five
years.
Here, as at most of the ports, transit outwards is non- Transit trade,
existent. The trade inwards fell considerably below that of 1900,
in harmony with the diminished import. The total value of the
goods thus sent was 12,450/., as...”
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