ECONOMIC INFORMATION: SOVIET SMUGGLING OF TIN AND WOLFREM

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R000600180001-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 22, 1999
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: May 21, 1947
• Content Type: IR

Annroved For Release 1999109108 UA,RD.P . 80001-9
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ORIGIN
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INFO. I April 1947
Soviet Sn ng of Tin and
~ ST. 21 1947
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SUPPLEMENT
1. At prevent a considerable quantity of tin is bdW =ggled f Kiangci ( si?)
Province to Canton and sold to t ,o purchasers, tht: principal one being the USSR,
(The other purchaser was not stat: d,) It was reported that a Eaxropeau in the
consular earvice At Clanton has been"acting for the So ?ieta in the procurawnt Of
price and above-- the prel mina..rzr, Prices offer several American firms,
the only,y~ it could loaded was by 11
outside the territorial, waters.
The tin is ttgg1ed r om Canton to Macao Wh6
this t..
It is believed that a considerable ' amount of . rlfrarn . ore is also` using ,shipped out
of Canton tze same rotate!,
:Ln the c pimi. of 'ono business rte.,
aft trafisporti-ng it to larger ships
4. It was learned 'fm a CUmse who is considering pa c pates in the operation of
a Japanese wolfram processiti plant, aich was purchased from the alien property
administration in Shanghai and which is being moved to Hongkong, that the Soviet
Union has placed open orders for tungsten oxide at' price well above the market
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Approved For Release 1999/09/08: CIA-RDP82-00457F608g0