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Exports —
Staple exports : nluth, firecrackers, paper, <£c........................................................................................7
Transformation of native into foreign tobacco....................................................................................7
Injurious policy of likin authorities ........................................................................................................................7
Opening of Nanning-fu will probably cause improvement in export
trade............................................................................................................................................................................................................................8
Chinese control of inland steam navigation.....................................................8
Present excessive cost of likin collcclion ............................................................8
Shipping—
Large proportion...”
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“...navigation—
precaution to
be taken.
Excessive cost
of likin
collection.
38 per cent, of
total at
Samsliui
station.
Shipping.
Steam.
Sail.
Large
proportion of
shipping .
under British
flag is
Chinese
owned.
Ivongmoon an
important
passenger
station.
sued by the likin authorities towards a would-be flourishing trade.
Their loss is, however, in this case the foreign Customs gain.
The trade in all the above-mentioned products shows signs of
considerable improvement in the present year, and when Nanning-
fu is opened to foreign trade a large export business is certain to
spring up here.
The volume of trade with Hong-Kong depends to a great
extent, as lias been indicated above, on the fluctuations of pro-
vincial taxation. The untold harm that the present irregular
system of inland taxation does to trade, both native and foreign,
is perhaps nowhere more clearly exemplified than in this pro-
vince, and especially in the delta of the Canton and the "VJrest
Rivers. If the control of inland steam...”
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