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Show Chin' Tea Trade Declining. Roinu Inlcrcitlne statistics havo been collected by Vice Coniul Arnold, at loo-Chow, concerning tho KK.it dccllno In China's ten, trade from 1G78. when tea was first Introduced Into Kngland. until 1S37 China held ox cluslvoly tho ton trado o( tho world Then India began to enter tho tea market Tho Chlncso trndu reached high tldo In 18SC, with a total export of 30000,000 (otinda In 1881 China furnished about 72 per cent ot tha worlds total, India and Ccyloc 18 per Jnt-'n("'Japir'amif'ymioaa-10 per cent. Hut In 1901, when tho total con-slmptlon con-slmptlon had Increaaod to 6(4,000,000 poundi, China contributed only 30 per cent, India nnd Ceylon CO per cent, Japan nnd Pormosa 10 per cent Tho decline In China la ascribed to care-leas care-leas methods of cultivation and pro-paratlon pro-paratlon ot the leaf |