TRADE AND COMMERCE.
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The amount of duties collected at each of the fourteen treaty ports, in the years 1867 and 1868, was as follows : —
Ports
1867
1868
Taels
Taels
Shanghae
2,304,349
2,501,436
Canton .
934,774
866,269
Swatow
420.863
381,012
Amoy .
503.327
426,044
Foo-chow
1,708.658
1,813.361
Takow .
68,471
51,486
Ningrpo .
452.601
567,908
Hankow
943.857
1,152.580
Kiu-kiang
426,507
554,099
Chin-kiang ,
23.814
33,095
Che-foo .
238,911
284,363
Tien-tsin
411.297
390,605
New-chwang
231,972
215.736
Tamsuy
49,037
69,347
f
8.718.444
9,307,347
I
£2,906,148
£3,102,449
The value of the total exports from China to the United Kingdom, and of the imports of British and Irish produce and manufactures into China, was as follows in each of the ten years from 1860 to 1869 : —
Tears
Exports from China to Great Britain
Imports of
British Home Produce
into China
1860 .
1861 .
1862 .
1863 .
1864 .
1865 .
1866 .
1867 .
1868 .
1869 .
£
9,323,764
9,d70,445 12,137,095 14,186,310 15,673,930 10,677.995 10,846,388
9.340,402 11,217,450
9,621,358
£
2,872,045 3.114.694 2,024,118 2,416,705 3,092,611 3,603,595 5,090,074 4,996,469 6,312.175 6,842,840
The exports from China to Great Britain and Ireland are made up, to the amount of more than nine-tenths, of one article of merchandise, namely, tea. In the year 1864, the quantity of tea sent from the treaty ports to the United Kingdom was 112,128,032 lbs., valued at 8,386, 629/. ; in 1865 there were sent 109,805,895 lbs., valued at 9,081,486/. ; in 1866, 127,486,120 lbs., valued at 10,178,070/. ; in 1867, 114,511,388 lbs., valued at 8,951,954/. ; in 1868, 137,042,375 lbs., valued at 10,945,530/. ; and in 1869, the exports amounted
