1, BUSINESS CONTROLS AND TRADE IN TIENTSIN 2. TREATMENT OF UNICEF PERSONNEL BY COMMUNISTS

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• Collection: FOIA Collection
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• Document Creation Date: July 13, 2023
• Document Release Date: May 2, 2022
• Case Number: F-2020-00303
• Publication Date: April 22, 1949

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY REPORT NO.
ONFORMATION REPORT CD NO.
COUNTRY China
SUBJECT 1. Business Con role aVd.Trade kgy sin
2. Treatment of UNIC' ersonnel by Communi
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Tientsin
1. All controls in Tientsin, particularly financial controls, are tightening,
and taxes are being levied on business income.
2. The Chinese Communists in Tientsin have established a system of making one
firm check and guarantee the books of another firm in a chain of responsi-
bility, which results in easy checking at a few points.
3. Foreigners in Tientsin have been unable to submit top bids for exports or
imports because they are faced with the problem of black market operators
who, taking advantage of the eight percent discount on foreign remitLances�
are able to buy exports at prices above the foreign market, and to quote
import prices below foreign costs.
4. Remittance rates will probably reach a normal level within ten days.
5. The Chinese Communists are exporting mostly bristles, which they buy for
$16,000 a set (sic) and sell for 43,01.010 . The main Communist import
demands are copper wire, sheets it, tires, gasoline and railroad spare parts.
6. Native produce is arriving in Tientsin from the interior in huge amounts.
The Communists plan to dispose of it abroad, through controlled channels,
for a maximum gain in foreign exchange, which will be devoted to imports.
7. The central Communist trade bureau is the Chinese Cormtulist Central Govern-
ment Trade and Finance Ministry, which is headed by YAO Yi-ling.
8. The director, the vice-director and the manager of the Chinese Communist
Tientsin trade bureau (which is called the North China Foreign Trade Corpo-
ration, and has local authority in Tientsin) were formerly stockholders and
managers of the old Jen Tah Company, which was actually a Communist company
before the liliberationL"
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9. Chinese and foreigners on trains and streets are spotehec d; the search
includes the removal of Money and letters from inside pockets.
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Two employees, with travel permits, of the United Nations International
Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF) arrived in Tientsin from south China.
The Chinese Communists were informed that the employees were carrying UNICEF
money and baggage, but they were searched and the money and baggage were
placed in bond until UNICEF could straighten out the incident with the China
Liberated Areas Rehabilitation Administration (CLARA).
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il. Dr. Eloesser, head of North China UNICEF, is still battling over the simplest
elements of the UNICEF program, which is still bogged down *it. Eloesser
asked TUNG Pi-wu (head of CLARA) point-blank if the program is acceptable
to the Communists. TUNG replied that a formal Chinese Communist answer
would be given in two weeks.
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Comment. It is not known what the "sheets" are.
and referenced reports.
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