Tae Returns of Trade show an increase in both the gross and the net trade of Shanghai, during the past year, over its predecessor. The figures of 1874 were the lowest since 1870—Ts.
105,100,000, of which Tls. 89,000,000 was set down as the net value of the trade of the port, deducting re-exports. The gross value in 1875 was 109,300,000, and the not value 44,800,000. The former figures are still below either of the three years 1871-73, but the net trade was greater than in any year of the preceding five except '71. The increase was in native produce, both imports and exports. The gross value of Foreign imports was Tls. 46,640,000, or Tls. 850,000 less than the previous year, and lower than in any year of the preceding five. Re-exports stand also at a lower figure than in any year of the preceding five; thus actually leaving the net import—the quantity remaining in Shunghai—greater than in any year since '71, although the gross import was less. The falling off in opium alone, however, more than accounts for the total de-Jerease. Only 35,000 chests were imported, valued at Ts. 6,713,000, against 44,000 chests valued at Tls. 8,079,600 in 1874, The gross import of Shirtings during the year was 5,100,000 pieces, against 5,400,000 in 1874; and of T-Cloths 2,700,000, which shows an increase of nearly 1,200,000 pieces. The import of Woollens shows scarcely any difference from the previous year in the total, although there were material variations in detail.
Apart from the Indian trade, which is set down at Tls. 14,000,000, against Tls. 20,000,000 in 1875, the respective shares taken by foreign countries in the import trade show very little variation. It is indeed really a British trade, as Great Britain and her dependencies. contribute some Ts. 41,000,000 to the gross total, Japan coming next with Tls. 2,319,000, and the United States next with Tls. 1,015,000; while all the Continent of Europe contributes only Tls. 716,485—a total which is eclipsed by Singapore and Australia, In exports the case is different, though Great Britain still stands at the head of the list, taking herself Tls. 14,500,000 out of the total Ts. 30,000,000. France here figures for Ts. 7,404,000, represented of course chiefly by sill, and the United States for Tls. 5,359,000. The total amount of duties collected was Tls. 8,370,216, of which exactly half was paid under the British flag, exclusive of Tls. 791,475' which is credited separately to opium, but which of course comes also chiefly under the same head, The French flag ranks next, having contributed Tls. 456,851, and the American next, Tls. 229,370. German ships and Chinese owned vessels of Foreign type each Gontribated Tls. 100,000. Out of 272 vessels employed in the foreign import trade, Great Britain owned 185, America 28, Germany 19 and France 18; and out of 182 employed in the export trade, Great Britain owned 120, America 19, Germany 12 and France 14, The value the silk cargo carried by the French mail steamers, however, brings up the value of the export cargoes they carried, over the British total. 142 vessels under the British flag were employed in the coast trade, against 46 American, 20 German and 7 French. The entire carrying trade with Shanghai, both foreign and coastwise, employed 899 vessels, representing a tonnage of 2,594,171, and which made 3,854 trips. The share of each nationality was—British, 518 vessels, representing 1,101,601 tons; American, 132, representing 887,017; German, 61, representing 83,898; French, 40 representing 110,019; 17 Danish vessels and 16 Japanese, two or three each Spanish, Swedish, Norwegian, and Austrian, and 14 belonging to non. treaty Powers, go to make up the total, China herself contributed 81 vessels, representing a tonnage of 288,549, or rather less than 10 per cent. of the whole. The total value of the cargoes so carried is set down at Tls. 173,782,549; of which, in round numbers, Tls, 45,000,000 were foreign imports, and Tls. 32,000,000 foreign exports; Tls. 58,000,000 const trade
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