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Definition of treaty port in English: treaty portnoun historical A port bound by treaty to be open to foreign trade, especially in 19th and early 20th-century China and Japan. Example sentencesExamples - They provided only a few of the services offered by modern banks, developed quickly in Shanghai where there was a great deal of maritime trade, especially after the city was ‘opened’ as a treaty port in 1843.
- It was the first Chinese port opened to foreign trade, the Portuguese visiting it in 1516, and was a treaty port from 1842 until its occupation by Japan in 1938.
- As for the tea, it was grown in China, was carried on a bamboo pole upon the shoulders of a man to some river village, and sold to a Chinese merchant, who shipped it by boat to a treaty port.
- They resulted partly from the semi-colonial structure of the treaty port and partly from an extra-legal usurpation by the foreign authorities of the concessions.
- Chongqing was opened as a treaty port in 1890, but few foreigners made it to this isolated outpost.
Definition of treaty port in US English: treaty portnoun historical A port bound by treaty to be open to foreign trade, especially in 19th- and early-20th-century China and Japan. Example sentencesExamples - Chongqing was opened as a treaty port in 1890, but few foreigners made it to this isolated outpost.
- They provided only a few of the services offered by modern banks, developed quickly in Shanghai where there was a great deal of maritime trade, especially after the city was ‘opened’ as a treaty port in 1843.
- As for the tea, it was grown in China, was carried on a bamboo pole upon the shoulders of a man to some river village, and sold to a Chinese merchant, who shipped it by boat to a treaty port.
- They resulted partly from the semi-colonial structure of the treaty port and partly from an extra-legal usurpation by the foreign authorities of the concessions.
- It was the first Chinese port opened to foreign trade, the Portuguese visiting it in 1516, and was a treaty port from 1842 until its occupation by Japan in 1938.
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