appendix B — Direct Foreign Trade of Korea, 1886-96
(i.e. net value of foreign goods imported in foreign, or foreign-type, vessels into the Treaty Ports, and taken cognizance of by the foreign Customs; and of native goods similarly exported and re-exported from the Treaty Ports to foreign countries.)
| Year. | Net imports of Foreign Goods (i.e. exclusive of Foreign Goods re-exported to Foreign Countries). | Exports and Re-exports64 of Native Goods to Foreign Countries. | Total. |
| 1886 | $2,474.185 | $ 504,225 | $ 2,978,410 |
| 1887 | 2,815,441 | 804,996 | 3,620,437 |
| 1888 | 3,046,443 | 867,058 | 3,913,501 |
| 1889 | 3,377,815 | 1,233,841 | 4,611,656 |
| 1890 | 4,727,839 | 3,550,478 | 8,278 317 |
| 1891 | 5,256,468 | 3,366.344 | 8,622.812 |
| 1892 | 4,598,485 | 2,443,739 | 7,042,224 |
| 1893 | 3.880,155 | 1,698,116 | 5,578,271 |
| 1894 | 5,831,563 | 2,311,215 | 8,142,778 |
| 1895 | 8,088,213 | 2,481,808 | 10,570,021 |
| 1896 | 6,531,324 | 4,728,700 | 11,260,024 |
Note.—The increase in the foreign trade of Korea between 1886 and 1896 may not have been so great as the above figures without explanation would imply. It is generally stated that side by side with the trade in foreign vessels at the Treaty Ports a considerable traffic has been carried on by junk between non-Treaty ports in Korea and ports in China and Japan. This junk trade was probably much larger in the earlier years of the period the figures of which are compared, and the rapid development shown in the table may be partly due to the increasing transfer of traffic from native craft to foreign-type vessels which offer greater regularity and safety and less delay.
Comparative Table of the net Dues and Duties Collected at the Three Ports for the Years 1884-96
| Year. | Import Duties. | Export Duties. | Tonnage Dues. | Total. |
| 1884 | $ 79,373.71 | $ 19,234.74 | $ 3,478.19 | $102,086.64 |
| 1885 | 119,364.41 | 19,602.22 | 2,996.90 | 141,963.53 |
| 1886 | 132,757.12 | 24,812.11 | 2,708.75 | 160,277.98 |
| 1887 | 203,271.68 | 40,384.52 | 3,045.12 | 246,701.32 |
| 1888 | 219,759.81 | 43,330.62 | 4,124.55 | 267,214.98 |
| 1889 | 213,457.49 | 61,835.23 | 4,707.04 | 279,999.76 |
| 1890 | 327,460.11 | 178,552.14 | 8,587.90 | 514,600.15 |
| 1891 | 372,022.07 | 168,096.36 | 8,940.26 | 549,058.69 |
| 1892 | 308,954.13 | 123,212.24 | 6,247.05 | 438,413.42 |
| 1893 | 262,679.28 | 85,720.22 | 5,717.16 | 354,116.66 |
| 1894 | 357,828.34 | 115,779.33 | 7,398.64 | 481,006.31 |
| 1895 | 601,588.06 | 124,261.22 | 15,448.20 | 741,297.48 |
| 1896 | 448,137.16 | 226,342.45 | 17,304.75 | 691,784.36 |
Comparative Statement of the Japanese and non-Japanese Cotton Goods Imported into Korea during the Year 1896
| Description. | Classification of Quantity. | Japanese. | Non-Japanese. | Total. | |||
| Quantity. | Value. | Quantity. | Value. | Quantity. | Value. | ||
| $ | $ | $ | |||||
| Shirtings—Gray Plain | Pieces | 6,715 | 23,660 | 428,911 | 1,567,967 | 435,626 | 1,591,627 |
| Shirtings—White | ″ | 31 | 121 | 5,445 | 21,768 | 5,476 | 21,889 |
| T-Cloths | “ | 1,211 | 2,719 | 1,660 | 4,177 | 2,871 | 6,896 |
| Drills | “ | 163 | 634 | 11,583 | 47,998 | 11,746 | 48,632 |
| Turkey-Red Cloths | “ | 1,652 | 3,663 | 7,519 | 17,349 | 9,171 | 21,012 |
| Sheetings | “ | 30,184 | 115,914 | 14,793 | 58,455 | 44,977 | 174,369 |
| Cotton Flannel | “ | 762 | 2,870 | 1,432 | 3,927 | 2,194 | 6,797 |
| Cotton Blankets | Pairs | 1,625 | 3,883 | 1,625 | 3,883 | ||
| Cotton Yarn and Thread | Piculs | 12,821 | 368,064 | 1,795 | 71,386 | 14,616 | 439,450 |
| Value | 521,528 | 1,793,027 | 2,314,555 | ||||
| Cotton Goods, Unclassed | “ | 65 | 644,671 | 66379,319 | 1,023,990 | ||
| Total | Value | 1,166,199 | 2,172,346 | 3,338,545 | |||
Footnotes
64 i.e. including native goods imported from another Korean port and re-exported to a foreign country.
65 Chiefly narrow-width cloth, gray or white, checked or plain.
66 Including $2,549 Chinese Cottons.