THE  PROVINCES  AND  THE  TREATY  PORTS  243
It  is  important  to  show  the  distributing  trade  of  Shanghai
rather  than  its  purely  local  trade,  and  this  is  brought  out
in  the  following  figures  :—

Foreign  Products  Imported

1859
1864
1874
1884
1894
1904
1906

1859
1864
1874
1884
1894
1904
1906

Gross  Imports.
Tls.
.  32,429,232
.  30,522,183
.  52,902,102
.  47.158,013
.  96,920,931
.  .  196,905,998
227,535,546

Re-Exports.
Tls.
2,609,603
17,723,355
43,764,978
39,690,117
66,435,217
151,617,898
152,563,396

Net  Imports.
Tls.
29,819,629t
12,798,828
9,137,124
7,467,896
30,485,714
45,288,100
74,972,150

Chinese  Produce  Imported

Gross  Imports.
Tls.
27,542,065
36,734,241
'  39,454,313
53,361,347
.  127,970,828
.  115,424,069

Re-Exports.
Tls.
17,062,865
29,946,189
32,576,102
47,092,163
107,966,192
100,656,771

Net  Imports.
Tls.

10,479,200
6,788,052
6,878,211
6,269,184
20,004,636
14,767,298

Chinese  Produce  Exported

Original  Exports.
Tls.

Re-Exports.
Tls.

1859
1864
1874
1884
1894
I 9°4
1906

33,003,545
20,137,038
27,541,834
26,603,194
45,340,093
80,187,434
78,996,881

17,062,865
29,946,189
32,576,102
47,092,163
107,966,192
100,656,771
*  Japanese  tonnage  in  1904  reduced  from  1,744,249  tons  in  1903,
owing  to  Russo-Japanese  war.
t  The  Yangtze  and  northern  ports  not  having  been  opened  to
foreign  shipping,  re-exports  thither  did  not  pass  through  the  Customs
in  1859.

Total.
Tls.
33,003,545
37,199,903
57,488,023
59,179,296
92,432,256
188,153,626
179,653,652