An Increase of $76,758,171 Over 1938 or 30% Shanghai Contributes 50.34% of Total Revenue the Chinese Maritime Customs statistical secretary's report on the foreign trade of China for 1939, commences with an introductory survey of the International Politico-economic situation in 1939, before dealing with actual Chita affairs, and Customs returns. The total revenue collection for the year 1939, expressed in national currency, amounted to $331,323,640, as compared with $245,565, 469 for 1938, an increase of $76,758, 171, or 30 per cent.
The recovery in the Customs receipts is more remarkable than is at once apparent, in that the collection for 1939, not only exceeded the total of $324,693,291, collected in 1936, in the last year completely free from the existing hostilities, but came within measurable approach of the figure of 8342,899,72) for 1937, which represented the highest total recorded since ihe receipts of the Custom Houses in Manchuria ceased to be included in the total collection.
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