Ly looking through the Customs Returns for the first quarter of the present year, the student of commercial statistics is "attracted to the returns from the comparatively new (ear is Kiaochow which should be rts. The first of them geographic called Tsingtao, that being really the port and the Custom House being established there. The total revenue collected at this port then in the first quarter of the present year was Hk. Ins. 21,625 against Lis. 13,362 in the same period last year; of this, import duty accounted for Tle. 12,064, export duty for Tls. 9,390, [dew and likin is. 55. It ace be coast trade duty Tls. 116, and opium noted that the port of Kiaochou is subject to special regulations. The Cus'om House collects tariff import and export duty and conventional likin on opium, and native duties and likin on junk cargoes at half tariff rates, while goods landed and consumed on German territory are not included in the statistics; that is, the Custom House only, takes, cognisance of goods going into or coming from Chinese territory. The "tonnage entered and cleared at Tsingtao (all steam) amounted to 44 Vessels of 51,158 tons entered and 47 vessels of 55,178 tons cleared, aguinst 33. vessels of 29,461 tons and 33 of 30,593 tons, respectively, last year. The total number of junks entered and cleared at the seven stations controlled by the Kiaochou Customs was 510 and 506 respectively. The imports were not very large. They
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