Haikwan customs tael
Haikwan customs tael: a historical unit of account.
- Dates in use
- Introduction uncertain; ended 1933
- Ancestry branch
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The story
The haikwan tael was used by Maritime Customs for export-duty collection and import/export statistical valuation. [1]
Customs announcement reported discontinuance of the haikwan tael. [2]
Contemporary survey reports customs announcement10March 1933 discontinued use of Haikwan tael, beyond the earlier 1930 import-duty shift. [3]
Turning points
Account-unit observation
Seward’s 29 April 1880 memorandum describes actual customs collections using Haikwan taels and tabulates their local relation to Kuping taels. Officials did not explain the Haikwan standard’s origin. [4]
Sources and evidence
- United States Department of Commerce · Monetary Use of Silver in 1933 C1385 ↗
- United States Department of Commerce · Monetary Use of Silver in 1933 C1434 ↗
- United States Department of Commerce · Monetary Use of Silver in 1933 C1477 ↗
- George F. Seward, United States legation in Peking · FRUS 1880, document 167: memorandum of 29 April 1880 C2008 ↗
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“Haikwan customs tael.” The Family Tree of Money. © Field Technologies, Inc. Reader edition 2026-10-13; research dataset v44. https://familytreeofmoney.org/currency/CUR-V26-HAIKWAN-TAEL.html