TRADE CONDITIONS AND MINING DEVELOPMENT IN NORTH CHINA.

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R011800070001-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 17, 2002
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: May 8, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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FORM NO. 51-4AA
FEB 1952
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
CLASSIFICATION SECRET
INFORMATION REPORT REPORT NO.
CD NO.
COUNTRY `,h.ina
SUBJECT Trade wonditions and Mining Development in
North China.
DATE OF
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?roes of shipment are said to be: from Japan ton Dairen, Tfrom sIndia to Singar.
Pore to Macao, and from Southeast Asia to Macao.
2. The Chinese Communists purchase military and major industrial supplies through
two channels; their own trade agencies which they support secretly, and through
f0reign commercial firms which are frequently under neutral flags. Goods pur-
chased by the trade agencies are shipped by their own secret transportation
facilities, but the goods purchased by the private firms must be delivered to
China by the purchasing went.
3. Chinese Communist foreign trade transactions are usually handled by import-
:.xpcrt companies. The private businessman must apply to the export comp
for clearance to export commodities which have been authorized for export by
the Ministry of Trade. Certain special commodities such as soya beans,
bristles, and coal, can be handled only through export companies and private
businessmen are only permitted to sell such items to the export companies. In
order to import items. which are authorized by the government for import, pri-
vate dealers must apply to the import company for clearance. In addition the
import company retains the right to purchase these import commodities at the
official price.
4. Standard trade procedure between China and the USSR consists of direct barter
with the official trading company of the USSR. This trading company has a
number of agencies in North and Northeast China which are called "Sino-Sgviet
Native Products Trading Companies". The head office for North China is in
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The overt shipping routes for Chinese Communist imports are; from Poland to
Tientsin, from Portugal to Tientsin and fr
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Tientsin; it is rain by Pin-pu-ssu-chi, the Tientsin representative of the
Soviet Trade Delegation. This office has branches in Kalgan, Taiyuan,
Peiping, acid Tsinan. Chinese exports consist chiefly of peanut oil, bristles,
hide, fazrs, animal bones, and tea leaves. Soviet items are mainly chemicals,
ma.cninery, and various daily necessities of Soviet manufacture.
By the end of February 1952 more than 120 Soviet mining engineering specialists
had been trx ax.Bferrea rom mines in the Northeast to various mines in North
China. The Metal Mining !id inistration of the Ministry of Heavy Industries
has come to an agreement with the Soviet commercial representatives in Peiping
for cooperation in exploiting, shipping, and stilling minerals. The mineral
output of North China. is expected to increase greatly, but at the same time
the Soviet advisers and techni.ce,l experts will gain m.cre direct control over
such op .ration .
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