TRADE AND COMMERCE.

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The amount of duties collected at each of the fourteen treaty ports, in the years 1867 and 1868, was as follows : —

Ports

1867

1868

Taels

Taels

Shanghae

2,304,349

2,501,436

Canton .

934,774

866,269

Swatow

420.863

381,012

Amoy .

503.327

426,044

Foo-chow

1,708.658

1,813.361

Takow .

68,471

51,486

Ningrpo .

452.601

567,908

Hankow

943.857

1,152.580

Kiu-kiang

426,507

554,099

Chin-kiang ,

23.814

33,095

Che-foo .

238,911

284,363

Tien-tsin

411.297

390,605

New-chwang

231,972

215.736

Tamsuy

49,037

69,347

f

8.718.444

9,307,347

I

£2,906,148

£3,102,449

The value of the total exports from China to the United Kingdom, and of the imports of British and Irish produce and manufactures into China, was as follows in each of the ten years from 1860 to 1869 : —

Tears

Exports from China to Great Britain

Imports of

British Home Produce

into China

1860 .

1861 .

1862 .

1863 .

1864 .

1865 .

1866 .

1867 .

1868 .

1869 .

£

9,323,764

9,d70,445 12,137,095 14,186,310 15,673,930 10,677.995 10,846,388

9.340,402 11,217,450

9,621,358

£

2,872,045 3.114.694 2,024,118 2,416,705 3,092,611 3,603,595 5,090,074 4,996,469 6,312.175 6,842,840

The exports from China to Great Britain and Ireland are made up, to the amount of more than nine-tenths, of one article of merchandise, namely, tea. In the year 1864, the quantity of tea sent from the treaty ports to the United Kingdom was 112,128,032 lbs., valued at 8,386, 629/. ; in 1865 there were sent 109,805,895 lbs., valued at 9,081,486/. ; in 1866, 127,486,120 lbs., valued at 10,178,070/. ; in 1867, 114,511,388 lbs., valued at 8,951,954/. ; in 1868, 137,042,375

lbs., valued at 10,945,530/. ; and in 1869, the exports amounted