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HONG KONG.
Years
Exports from Hong Kong
Imports of British Produce
to Great Britain
into Hong Kong
£
£
1865
773,068
1,548,698
1866
282,273
2,387,017
1867
183.373
2.471,809
1868
235,804
2,185,972
1869
281,932
2,130,837
The chief article of exports from Hong Kong to Great Britain in the five years 18G5-69 was raw cotton, the value of which amounted to 532,059/. in 1865, but sank to 10,0017. in 1867, and ceased altogether in 1868. Tea, of the value of 48,9647. in 1869, against 157,907/. in 1868, was the only other notable export article during the same period. The British imports into Hong Kong consist almost entirely of manufactured textile fabrics, mainly cotton goods.
The subjoined table gives the value of the imports of British and Irish produce and manufactures from 1850 to 1869, exhibiting separately the imports into China and into Hong Kong, and jointly to both, so as to show the share of Hone Kong in Chinese commerce.
Imports of
Imports of
I
Tears
British Produce '
British Produce
Total into
into China
into Hong Kong
China and Hong Kong
£
£
£
1850
975,954
598,191
1,574.145
1851
1,528.869
632,399
2,161,268
1852
1,918.244
585,355
2,503,599
1853
1,373,689
375,908
1,749.597
1864
532.639
468.077
1.000,716
1855
888.679
389,265
1,277,944
1856
- .415.178
800,645
2,216.123
1857
L,728,885
721.097
2,449,982
1858
1.730,778
1,145,669
2,876,447
1859
2,525.997
1,931.576
4,457,573
I860
2,872,045
2,445,991
5,318.036
1861
3,114.694
1,733,963
4.848.657
1863
2,024.118
1,113.224
3,137,342
1863
2,416.705
1,473.222
3,889,927
1864
3,093,865
1,618.867
4,711,478
1865
3,603,595
1,548.698
5.152,293
1866
5,090.1)7 1
2.387,017
7.477.091
1867
4,996.469
2.171.809
7,468,278
1868
6,312,175
2,185,972
8,498,147
1869
6,842,840
2,130,837
8,973,677
It will be seen that the British trade Avith Hong Kong underwent
great fluctuations in the twenty years from 1850 to 1869, but