Book excerpt: Excerpt from Supplement to Commerce Reports, Vol. 52: Daily Consular and Trade Reports Issued by the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce Department of Commerce, Washington, D. C.; August 21, 1917 For many years Amoy was prominent among Chinese ports, being the point of shipment for large quantities of Oolong, Amoy, and Formosa tea, but its trade has declined so much that it now handles only about 2 per cent of the commerce of China, foreign and domestic. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.