Though there is no apparent effect so far on the market, the probable early collapse of the anti-Japanese boycott throughout the week has been a subject of debate everywhere. The best informed people appear to have made up their minds that the storm is dying down and that' the anticipations of at least a year of the boycott will not be realized. Consequently there is some nervousness. For the time being everything that comes in is eagerly bought up and sent up country to replenish the seriously: depleted stocks. It is not thought' that, with the market as it is, the return of Japanese goods will: have a great deal of effect, buri the Chinese have Bought such' large quantities that there ig some conjecture og to whether they will fake up all of them should there be a drop in the immediate future. This concerns Greys and Whites more than anything, and therefore it is rather comforting to note that prices still are steady and the demand, especially from the river ports and northern centres, remains quite good, Fancies are firmer. Clearances, of course, have been check? ed by the rain.
The stock position just now is very interesting. Grey Shirtings are down to 49,000 pieces and! White Shirtings to 192,000, Deliveries in the last quarter were very good, exceeding the average by 70,000 pieces and the actual deliveries ran to 800,000 pieces, whereas the deliveries in the cor/ responding quarter last year were 600,000. The quarter's im? ports this year totalled 355,000° pieces, but in the same quarter of 1922 they amounted to 838.000 pieces.
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