Encyclopedia of India–China Cultural Contacts v1.c5.s3.t1.9

v1.c5.s3.t1.9

In spite of the legalisation of the opium trade, the Chinese government continued to try and place restrictions on the trade throughout the 19th century CE. Opium production within China itself also began to give competition to opium imports from the last decades of the 19th century CE. Eventually, an agreement was signed by the British envoy in China and the representative of the Chinese foreign ministry, the waiwubu on May 8, 1911, to end the export of opium to China by 1917. However, the uncertain political situation in China resulting from the "Revolution of 1911" affected sales of imported opium and brought a premature end to the opium trade. The trade came to an end finally with the cessation of all transactions at the Bombay Opium Warehouse at the close of 1913.