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Quantity: Piculs 



Value: Yen 



1909 . 



. . . 12727 



230319 



1908 . 



. . . 12599 



212947 



Of these amounts, Germany in the year under review only received 

 1402 Piculs, of a value of 21944 Yen. 



The production of camphor in China is steadily dwindling. In ampli- 

 fication of previous notes on the subject 1 ) we may state that according 

 to recent German Consular Reports 2 ), the total output has declined to 

 9579 piculs, of a value of 680 827 Haikwan Taels, of which 4889 piculs 

 were exported via Shanghai and 3945 via Foochow and Amoy. For the 

 year 1910 only the figures of the ports of shipment are yet known. 

 Shanghai exported 4410 piculs, while Foochow shipped 981 piculs to 

 Hong Kong and Amoy, 21 piculs to Hong Kong and 3 piculs to Singapore. 

 It is not probable that there will be an increase in the exports so long 

 as the price does not advance above the parity of 145/- per cwt. cif. London, 

 which corresponds to a cost price of 60 H.T. at Shanghai. 



Upon comparing the statistics of exports from Shanghai (Central 

 China), with those of Foochow and Amoy (Southern China) it will be 

 found that for the past four years the shipments from Shanghai have 

 remained almost unchanged, while those from the two other ports have 

 shrunk to barely more than one-twentieth of the old figures. The reason 

 of this is that in the South the supplies of trees have been recklessly 

 wasted, but not so in Central China, where, on the contrary, large reserves 

 of trees are left almost untouched, extending far into the interior towards 

 the province of Szechuan. If the price of camphor should go up, these 

 supplies may possibly be utilised also, provided by then the Chinese have 

 learned more rational and economic methods of production. 



Under the title "Camphor Industry in Foreign Countries" the Bureau 

 of Manufactures of the American Department of Commerce and Labour 

 has published a comprehensive Report by several U. S. Consuls 3 ). The 

 contents are indicated by the title. The several reports so far as regards 

 natural camphor are from Japan (Yokohama and Kobe), Formosa (Tamsui) 

 and Ceylon (Colombo). The report from Borneo deals almost exclusively 

 with the conditions relating to Borneo, camphor for which see under the 

 heading Borneol on p. 135 of the present Report. As becomes the leading 

 position of Germany in the domain of synthetic camphor, the report on 

 this article is by the U. S. Consul at Hamburg. The reports contain 

 detailed information on the mode of preparation and the conditions of 

 trade in every producing district of any importance, but as these matters 



1 ) Report April 1908,^21; April 1910, 26; October 1910, 26. 



2 ) Nachrichten f. Handel u. Industrie 1911, No. 39, p. 4 and No. 31, p. 4. 



3 ) Special Consular Reports Vol. XLIII, Part. III. Washington 1910. 



