The effect of the new duties levied on tea at other places than Dalny is seen in the following comparative table. The figures for 1902 are taken from the U. S. _Monthly Summary_ for January, 1904, p. 2420, and those for 1903 have been converted from data given in the British _D. and C. Reports_, Annual Series No. 3280. In 1902, the Russian Empire took 882,893 out of the 1,519,211 _piculs_ of tea exported from China, while in 1903 the corresponding amounts were 1,010,580 out of 1,677,530. The distribution of the imported teas to the Russian Empire, according to the routes, was as follows:— 1902 1903 _Via_ Odessa and Batum 206,699 _piculs_ 200,391 _piculs_ _Via_ Kiakhta 403,648 244,668 To Russian Manchuria 272,546 191,679 To Port Arthur and Dalny 373,842 We presume that most of the teas exported to Russian Manchuria went through Niu-chwang. The table plainly shows an increased importation at Dalny at the expense of all other points. It is not known how much of the 373,842 _piculs_ imported at Dalny and Port Arthur was reshipped to other ports not mentioned here. (_Picul_ = 133⅓ lbs. av.) Footnote 76: See the _Tsūshō Isan_, April 18 and August 3, 1903, and the U. S. daily _Consular Reports_, January 21, 1904 (No. 1856). Reduction apparently had not reached its minimum point. It was unknown whether Dalny handled much of the Manchurian export trade. Footnote 77: The _Kokumin_, March 7, 1903. The ex-Japanese Consul at Niu-chwang, Mr. K. Tanabe, doubts that Dalny will completely displace Niu-chwang as an exporting centre. The latter is geographically the nature outlet for the grain from the Liao Valley, and, in winter, the handling of this product is apt to be done more at Mukden than at Dalny, the latter becoming in that case a mere port of transit. Moreover, mercantile customs differ so much at Niu-chwang and Dalny that it is not possible that the conservative Chinese merchants should readily transfer their business from the one place to the other. See Tanabe’s conversation in the _Tōyō Keizai Zasshi_ (“Oriental Economist”), No. 244 (September 25, 1902), p. 16. Footnote 78: The central distributing station at Vladivostok has a capacity of 600,000 poods, and the one to be built at Dalny will hold 1,500,000 poods, to which a special tank steamer will bring oil from Batum.—The _Tsūshō Isan_, May 3, 1903. Americans tried to build warehouses at Dalny, but were opposed by Russians. The importation of American kerosenes at Niu-chwang decreased from 3,172,000 gallons ($410,500) in 1901 to 603,000 gallons ($77,000) in 1902, and the decrease was in no small measure due to the Russian competition at Dalny. Footnote 79: