Maritime Trade Portuguese and the trade at south Chinese ports in the 16th century(Settlement 1557); Dutch in the 17th century, and the English in the 18th century(British East India Company), and others. H.B. Morse(The Chronicles, 1634 Britain's first attempt, 1699 London, 1760-1834 Regulated - the Canton System The Canton Trade(the only city in which Europeans were Allowed to trade between 1760-1840) Co-hong, the Chinese official merchant guild in Guangzhou after 1759-Hongs, licensed Chinese monopolists Lucrative trading: the demand for tea in 18th-century Britain (5 chests in 1684-400,000 pounds by 1720-23 million pounds in1800 the flow of silver into china: rose from 3 million ounces of sliver per year in the 1760s to 16 million in the 1780sMaritime Trade  Portuguese and the trade at south Chinese ports in the 16th century (Settlement 1557); Dutch in the 17th century, and the English in the 18th century (British East India Company), and others.  H. B. Morse (The Chronicles), 1634 Britain’s first attempt, 1699 “London”, 1760-1834 Regulated – the Canton System.  The Canton Trade (the only city in which Europeans were allowed to trade between 1760-1840)  Co-hong, the Chinese official merchant guild in Guangzhou after 1759– Hongs, “licensed Chinese monopolists”  Lucrative trading: the demand for tea in 18th -century Britain (5 chests in 1684 – 400,000 pounds by 1720 – 23 million pounds in 1800)  the flow of silver into China: rose from 3 million ounces of sliver per year in the 1760s to 16 million in the 1780s