Customs Figures for the July-September Quarter of this Year The Chinese Maritime Customs have issued trade returns for Shanghai covering the quarter July-September of this year. These fare in the usual form, and_ provide instructive figures in the detail of the local import and export busi Is are the first piculs. Indian cotton imports. did of display a like advance, the 1930] quarter giving a total of 303,023 piculs, and that of 1931 396,233 piculs, The imports of these vat ties of cotton for the first nine months of the past three years are given as follows:—
Under white or dyed Jarticles cambrics, lawns ete, show for July-September Fas against 47,206 in the 1930 quarter. Cotton crape shows one Of the most substantial advances the import for July—September, 1981, amounting to 270,545 yards 93,228 yards in the cor-period of the previous for the first nine months year the total is 8,158,225] [yards, which is over a million yards} more than in the 1980 period.
Black sateen drills are also] among: the items showing an injerease, for Whereas during the third quarter of 1930 the total imported was 1,200,984 yards, this had improved to 1,650,940 yarde in the like quarter of this year. For the nine months ending in September, 1931, the total of black sat teen drills was 3,630,009 yards, this being well ahead of 1980 (1,246,654 yards) bat considerably below the oral for the first nine months of 1929 which came to 5,766,836 yards. item among staple im-1g a big advance is to be found under the heading of Jeanvas, cotton (including cotton Jduck) for sails ete, which came to 644,521 yards in the 1931 quarter, fas against 250,010 yards for the 1930 period, the total for the first nine months of this year amounting to 2,158,749 yards, which shows fan advance' over both 1930 and 1929, Printed cambrics and cotton poplins are both up for the July-September quarter, although the latter shows a falling off for the rine month:
'When it comes to imports of raw! cotton a substantial advance is registered -by the American staple In. July-September, 1930, the ra Jcotton imported from' America Jamounted to 72,399 piculs, whereas for the. corresponding period of ter the import. was! 427.431
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