Monthly Consular and Trade Reports Volume 92, Nos. 352-355 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1910 Excerpt: ...and the relative loss of ground by competing American cotton goods. Five years ago American goods made up over 90 per cent of the piece-goods imports into Manchuria, with English goods second, and the Japanese a poor third. As will be seen from the table herewith of imports through this port, English and Japanese piece goods have both gained ground since then while American piece goods have greatly fallen off. When it is remembered that the demand is increasing with the rapid development of the country, and that considerable quantities of Japanese cotton goods now enter through Dalny. the gravity of the situation as regards American piece gocxls is at once apparent. A constantly increasing quantity of Japanese cotton cloth is also being imported into Newchwang, a total of 1.193.0((5 yards having been reached for the first six mouths of lf09. As. this article is not shown in the customs returns for this port, it is not included in the table. The importation of this cloth into Manchuria is of but a few years' standing, the trade via this port having grown from about 30,000 yards in 1907, and a similar increase has been made at Dalny. The Dalny returns are unsatisfactory to one endeavoring to make a close examination of this market, as the usual customs practice of classifying piece goods according to country of origin has not been followed there, the inquirer being forced to content himself with the statement in the commissioner's trade report, 'then follow cotton piece goods from Japan, in which were included American and English shirtings." The imports of piece goods into Newchwang from each of the three countries whose combined shipments make up nearly the entire amount are shown in the following table for the years 1904 to 1908, inclusive: The Dalny ...