USSR PROCUREMENT OF TIN IN HONG KONG AND MACAO

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R004100430004-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 12, 2001
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: January 19, 1950
• Content Type: REPORT

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SUBJICT? USSR iJrocurer. ant of Tin in Hong Kong and Macao "VG OF PAGES
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1. Yvanchenko, EI:s?)ortkhleb representative in Hong } onr,, who has been ?n.rchasing
tin throe,?rh the Yangtze Sun,)1 Cc rporation* has stated that the USSR wants
all tin eurchases and shipments hrntled secretly,. T its may be the result of
the Soviet fear that if all tin purchases are made pablic, the Combined Tin
Ccmrittee nawr take steps to control all tin 7aseing through Hong Kong to make
sure that none gets to the USSR.**
L`s..rIng the first three quarters of 1'x;9, only one tin shipment was recorded
by the Hong Kong Govt rnrent as having gone to the USSR. This arounted to 60
metric tens, and occurred r1urtz the second ,_uarter. The com;anry that sold
th
e tin is re aortecl t h ifd th
oavenormee government of the sale, thereby
occasioniri~; some concern in the Y^.n;,tze Suua?)ly Corporation. Shipments "^ ?
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dur:n ; the thirdtrt
. quare were no recorded by the Hong Fong
Governrent. t** However, it is re:anrte~. that total of at least 200 tons
of tin was jurcliased during this period, of Wrich 40 tons was shipped.. The
rem a.inder may either have been shiea sect or stored in warehouses. rr,ere was
also a shipment which laid-'a Hong Kona Government exchange surrender certifi-
cate with the destination given as a ITew York firm but the tin was altxnped
to Chinnarmo., North Korea. and. did not a--),)ear in the Hong Kong Government
trade figures for the third quarter of 1949. USSR tin shipments -arior to
1 :+cvember 1949 had Chinese Government exaort permits. The Soviet vessels
ALDA;T, AZOV AZAIV0SKY, were re`)orted to have loaded. tuii sten and tin in
Hong Kona and PMMacno. ***41
T-44 - -arinci,al shi r meets of tin from 1. a.cno have gone to the US L . which in
1948 received at least 800 tons from Macao. The leading firms ma 3 ing these
ahi rants were the Tung Dah Cor ny of T'&acno, the Sui Cheng International
Trading Compf*ny of Hong Kona,.***, and the Hong Kong-Canton irx~ort Company
of Hong Kong.
4. The Yangtrye Sup??1.y Con-any Cor'aoration also handles tin shipments from 1!acao.
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This docl!rnent is hereby regraded to
CONFi`l. EN! l L in acce:d ;ca .v th the
letter of f;om the
Director of Cei'sal lc}ei'.gcnce to the
Archivist at the Untied States.
Next Review Date: 2008
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