Sentence examples for import of opium from inspiring English sources

They tried banning the import of opium, to little effect.

In 1800 China's imperial government forbade the import of opium, which had long been used to stop diarrhoea, but had latterly graduated to recreational use.

Opium addiction became widespread in China, and the Chinese government's attempts to prohibit the import of opium from British-ruled India brought it into direct conflict with the British government.

The main effect of the Old China Trade was an increased import of opium and related outflow of specie, which resulted in China being incorporated into the capitalist world system after 1830.

In 1909, the US government banned the import of opium for internal consumption (except for "medicinal" use); however, it was legal for it to be imported into the States and immediately exported to Mexico and other countries.

Not until the later years of British rule — no one seems to know exactly when —  did Chinese history courses in Hong Kong include the Opium Wars that began in 1839 and 1856, in which Britain seized the core pieces of what is now Hong Kong in retaliation for Chinese restrictions on imports of opium.

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The amount of opium imported into China increased from about 200 chests annually in 1729 to roughly 1,000 chests in 1767 and then to about 10,000 per year between 1820 and 1830.

By the 1830s, China was producing large quantities of opium domestically, though the imported drug was judged superior.

During the next five decades, China's annual imports of British-supplied opium went from seventy-five tonine hundredunine hundred

But unlike many developing countries, which must import morphine for pain treatment, according to the International Narcotics Control Broad, India has been "the leading licit producer of opium for several decades, accounting for over 90percentnt of global production".