Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-05-23
Resumed With More Activ-
ity Than Before.
GRO WITH IN IMPORTS
THOSE FROM THIS COUNTRY
SHOW GREATEST INCREASE.
Railway Construction Progressing
Pushing the Great Trunk Line
From Pekin to Hankow.

Business has been resumed in China ap-
parently with increased activity. The Of
fetal publication of the Chinese govern
ment Returns Of Trade and Trade Re
ports for the Year 1901" which has just
cached the treasury bureau of statistics,
shows that railroad construction has been
actively resumed in several of the prov
inces. that practically LOCO miles of rail-
way are now completed and In operation,
and that several hundred miles will be
added during the present year, while the
record of the foreign commerce presented
by the report shows that the imports into
China in the year 1901 were larger than
those of any preceding year. The total
value of the imports is given Us, S02, 91S
haikwan taeIs or S192.9IS 1G0. against 264.-
100000 taels in 1899 POI. 100000 in 1897. ILL.,
100000 in 1895 and To- 100000 in 1894. The
exports are valued at 1863. 6J6. I35 haikwan
taels (S122 152 eco. and exceed those of any
prior year except 1899.
Imports From United States.
From the United States the imports in
1891 were valued at y. 529. 500 haikwan
taels S16.S41,G0O against 1924. 1913 haik-
wan taels in 1900, -. 2sST45 taels in 1899.
17.163.312 taels in 1898. and 9.263, 0S2 hafk-
wan taels In 1894. Thus the imports from
80 per cent since 1894, while the exports
to the United States in 1901 were practi-
Cally the same as those of 1894, the fig
ureS of 1891 being 1877, !iSS haikwan taelS.
and those of 1894. 16.442-7SS haikwan taels.
Comparing the progress of the United
States with that of other countries. it
may be said that the imports into China
from Great Britain increased from thirty
million haikwan taels in 1894 to forty-one
millions in 1901; those from Hong Kong
increased from eighty-two millions to one
hundred and twenty millions; those from
continental Europe. except Russia, from
six millions TO seventeen millions, and
those from Russia increa Sed from less than
one million to three million haikwan taels.
The growth in imports from the United
States is larger than that in imports from
any other country. though Hong Kong.
Great Britain. Japan and India rank higher
than the United States in the import state
I1ent of 1901.
American merchandise continues to find
favor in China. according to a statement
OF the statistical secretary, Mr.. F. E. Tay
Tor, which accompanies the report. Amer
lean heavy goods. he says, continues to
find favor. drills from that country having
now reached 649, SO pieces, or more than
double the importations of 1900 while
sheetinss rose to 2.S40.51S pieces. Japanese
goods also show progress; Japanese shirt
ings having risen from $50 to 1i.tr29 pieces
Gray and white shirtings were about the
same. among them being included a grow
ing importation of American goods. Owing
to the fall in exchange and the DEAFNESS of
cotton in America and Europe there was
marked demand during the year for
Cheaper qualities of cotton goods which
was rather a reversal of the tendency OF
late years. American kerosene oil was
6.hn.HD gallons in excess of the largest
previous Importation, in 1894: Russian kept
It's place, while Sumatran is rapidly gain
Ing and has reached +0.G40,049 gallons