23rd March.
In discussing last week Mr. Kopsch's Report on the Foreign Trade of China for 1891, we dealt chiefly with the import trade, but it is not to be supposed that there is not as much interest in what Mr. Kopsch writes about exports, "he total value of exports abroad for the year," he tells us, "aggregated Hk. 'I's. 100,947,000, which is the highest point ever reached, and shows an advance over the figures of 1890 of Hk. T'ls. 13,800,000." he list of exports on page 10 contains sixty separate "goods," besides "sundries, unenumerated." Of these there are sixteen enumerated whose value in 1891 exceeded a million taels, the values in 1891 and 1890 respectively being as follows 1801, 1800, schticatay Hk. Tis, Hk. Ins, nothing, Chinese, Bote' and Shoes 1,406,435 1,428,210 Cotton, Raw 3,841,129 2,989,274 Firecrackers and 5 Fhrewsrke, 1,012,530 1,124,214 1,570,709 1,359,915 ++22,109,749 16,756,668 2,405,742
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