Affairs of the East India Company: Appendix B No. 30

Journal of the House of Lords: Volume 62, 1830. Originally published by His Majesty's Stationery Office, London, [n.d.].

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No. 30.-Quantities and Value of British Manufactures imported into China by the Americans in 1824-25, 1825-26 and 1826 27; and also the Amount imported by The East India Company and their Officers in the same Years.
IMPORTS BY THE AMERICANS.
- 1824-25. 1825-26. 1826-27.
Quantities. Value. Quantities. Value. Quantities. Value.
Pieces. Dollars. Pieces. Dollars. Pieces. Dollars.
Camlets 4,338 121,464 4,290 128,700 3,272 104,704
Bombazets 672 9,448 1,800 27,000
Cloths 10,257 430,794 12,067 434,412 14,064 421,920
Shirtings 7,612 64,602 13,597 108,776 21,567 150,969
Handkerchiefs 27,123 54,246 31,694 55,464 27,090 40,635
Long Ells 7,842 78,420 10,620 111,510 8,040 80,400
Cambric 3,250 10,574 8,288 24,864 4,592 11,480
Chints 4,161 24,966 7,376 51,632 8,104 56,728
794,514 915,358 893,836
IMPORTS BY THE EAST INDIA COMPANY AND THEIR OFFICERS.
- 1824-25. 1825-26. 1826-27.
Dollars. Dollars. Dollars.
British Manufactures, consisting
principally of Woollens and
Cottons
2,859,798 3,173,213 3,504,828

Mem.-With regard to the Imports by the Americans into Canton, the Records of the Company do not furnish the Means of determining whether the Articles described by Names similar to those of British Manufacture are really manufactured in Great Britain; but in framing the above Statement the Whole of the Articles so circumstanced have been included as Part of the American Imports of the Class to be compared with those of The East India Company.

East India House,
1st June 1829.
(Errors excepted.) THO. G. LLOYD, AcctGen1