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“...any advance at all, owing to the
difference between the rates of exchange of the two years), entirely
due to the trade in cotton goods. On the other hand there was a
considerable falling-off in woollen goods, metals and kerosene of
all kinds. The import of refined sugar records a big increase,
Continental sugar figuring very largely in the returns and competing
keenly with the native article.
The following year shows but a slight increase, the United
Kingdom, India, British America, Russian Manchuria and the
United States of America all showing deficiencies. These defi-
ciencies were, however, more than made up by the improved trade
of Hong-Kong, Singapore and the Straits, the Continent
of Europe, Sumatra and especially Japan—the last-named showing
an increase of 10,000,000 taels (about 1,375,000Z.) over the previous
year, mainly due to Japanese yam and manufactured cottons and
Japan coal.
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