COTTON TEXTILES IN FOREIGN COUNTRIES. 



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The Canton or Chinese duty, added to the above prices, is about 10 

 cents, United States currency, per piece (8 candarines) on gray shirt- 

 ings, heavy T-cloths, and white shirtings ; and 5 cents, United States 

 currency, on light T-cloths and about 1 cent per pound on cotton yarn. 



Cotton textiles, mostly for northern China, during the week ended 

 July 26, 1889, were sold (United States currency) in Shanghai (duty 

 paid) viz: 



*Balea. 



Probably three-fourths of these goods went to Tien-Tsin for distri- 

 bution in northern China. The yarn was for central and southern China. 



PLACE OF MANUFACTURE. 



Fully nine-tenths of the imported cotton textiles brought to Canton 

 (exclusive of yarn) were manufactured in England and imported from 

 Hong-Kong. 



The Japanese cotton manufacturers caught the idea of making nar- 

 row, plain, and dyed cotton textiles of the ordinary width of native 

 cloth in China, viz, a Chinese foot, or about 14J English inches; and 

 last year Canton imported these Japanese textiles to the value of about 

 $14,000. 



Probably three-fourths or four-fifths of all imported cotton textiles 

 in China are of British manufacture, which are kept in large quantities 

 in hands of foreign merchants in the two principal markets for foreign 

 goods Hong- Kong and Shanghai. 



With my No. 127, dated June 30, 1887, 1 sent to the Department of 

 State twenty-five specimens of native cotton textiles, made at Canton 

 and vicinity, used in Chinese garments. 



Cotton manufactures are being built up in southern China. This 

 province last year imported (mostly from India) yarn to the value of 

 $!>,612,000, or more than three times the value of all imported cotton 

 goods besides yarn, and used large quantities of native and imported 



