CHINA'S EXPORTS (Classified)

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP61S00527A000200100004-1
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• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 7
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 14, 1998
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: January 1, 1956
• Content Type: LIST

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Table 1
China's Exports by Commodities
1956
Value
Millions of US dollars
Exports to
;US R; Eur..r Sat .3 Far East. Sat.
Grains
Rice
Wheat
Millet
Other
Oilseed,
Soybeans
Peanuts
Oilcake:
Other
Fruits and
Vegetables
Fruits
Canned goods
Eggs
Fish
Flour
Meat
Pork
Live Cattle
Honey
Oils, Vegetable
Peanut Oil
Tea
Essential G:Us
Casings
Dyestuffs, Tanning,
Materials, Lacquer
Bristles
Hemp
Jute
Rubber
Silk
Tobacco
Tung Oil
Starch
Ramie
Wool
Resin
Furs
Hides, raw
Cement
Coal
Fluorspar
Magnesite
Salt
Sulphur
Talc
Piezoqu;ar tz
8.3
3.2
3.7 4.0
12.9
13.6 23.5
?9 29.9
2.0
9.1
2.7 8.8
11.1 2.1
0.8 2.3
2.4
8.3 0.9
3.0
0.4 1.7
.8
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6.40$
64.3
5.1
3.8
1.0
99.7
(53.6)
21.9
(35.8)
15.4
( 1.0)
(21.2) 3.0
5.6)
44.7 20.3
(14.1)
0.6 2.7
10.5 0.5
2.8
12.9 63.1 16.9
25,4 2.9
1.1
4.2 25.7 6.7
23.8
6.5 5.0
5 7.0
1.8
6.4
21
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Table 1 (cont'd)
Millions of US dollars
Tots) Exports to
Exports Free World 1 US R 2j Eur. Sat. 3 Far East. Sat.
Gres and Concentrates
Al
75.5
umina
( 2.2)
Aluminum Shale
0.4
Lead
( 2.1)
Zinc
( 0.2)
Iron Ore
M
0.1
11.0
agnesia Clinker
3.8
Iron and Steel
10.2
6.1
Pig Iron
0.9
21.0
2.2
Nonferrous Metals
and Alloys
50.4
Aluminum
0.8
( 2.2)
Antimony
Alloys
( 3.9)
Tin
( 7.1)
0.-)
(32.4)
Chemicals
18.7
Caustic Soda
Soda Ash
3.3)
i.0)
Sodium Sulphate
Bertholet Salt
( 3.0)
( 0.3)
Colophane
3.8)
Pharmaceuticals
( 2.1)
Ships
Textiles
24.0
65.7
Rope, Nets, Sacks
5.0
Clothing
30.5
Leather Shoes
3.7
Handicraft art
goods
25.0
~lQyfiiy~
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Grains
Rice
Wheat
Millet
Other
China's Exports by Commodities
1956
Volume
Maatric ,onto unles , e~l~er~r o notes].
,Tota!7 ExDor to
_-.~ - Exports Free World
J _. USSR 21_~.u~ ~% Ia.r .._t ?at,
- .sac .;~.s
1,320,000
515,600 45`7, boo 36,200
16,ooo
Oilseeds
Soybeans 1, i20, 000 10/323,200 548,500 ,=;21 500
Peanuts 23,600 182,000 78300
Oilcake :LS,OOO
Fruits
Canned C'Jcods 36, 000 11./
Eggs
Fish
Flour
Meat
Pork
Live Cattle
Honey
Oils, Vegetable
? Peanut Oil
Tea
Essential il
casings
Bristle s
Hemp
Jute
Rubber
Silk
Tobacco
Tung Oil
Starch
Ramie
Wool
Resin
Cement
Coal
Fluorspar
Magnesite
Salt
Sulphur
Talc
Piezoquar Pz
162,000 x.J/
117,000 41 I'Loo
f , 600
36,000 12/
33,100 3,800
20,300
123,600 33,100
;.1pvk'+02L a 3,000 11 3,300
38,800
15,800
19,800
140, 000 1-5 40, 000 81, 300 21100
;13,400`,
13,000 1/ 23,300 12,600
I, 700
J,500
7,500
20, 0(X:)
16,900
3, 300 12/ 2,34,,-)
50,000 17/ 2,800 32,900
23,300 15,000
4owo
12,300
12,700
13,000
9543,00o 18/11+2, 000 12/ 786,200
800,200 209 , 000
33,000 90,200
110200
878,400 118,300
50,000
13,200 68,200
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Table 2 (cont'd)
Metric tons, unl
css pl~ezcrs~e ac~t~c
.
Total
L_ _ 5 2 Y, n / -
EEpor s _ i ee ;1ar1c'1 1
Ores and
Concentrates
Alumina
_
20
000
Aluminum Shale
15,500
,
Lead
Zinc
17,000
2
'[00
Iron Ore
1U,'~UU
,
000
733
20
Maiesia Clinker
78,800
,
Iron and Steel
200,700 J
91, 900
53
900
Pig Iron
555,238 22
9,900 j
,
467,600
49,800
Nonferrous Metals
and Alloys
Aluminum
38,600
Antimony
(4,700)
500
000)
(7
Alloys
Tin
,
(10,5Q0)
(15,700)
Chemicals
Caustic Soda
82,400 23
49
200
Soda Ash
153,260 22
,
107
300
Sodium Sulphate
,
21
200
Bertholet Salt
Colophave
,
1,500
24, J0
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Table 3
China's Imports by Commodities
1956
Value
Millions of US dollars
Total ~.
_~~ Imports from
Imports Free tdorld
Femur.
~ a 2j w~ ar Las~
,
Gat.
.
_.._
Metals and Machinery
)447
Machinery
30407
less Vehicles
(288.7)
61
Power Plant .
7.2)
Machine Tools
5.).)
Petroleum EVip
19.2)
ConTlete plants
(217.0)
Agr o Machinery
9.1)
Vehicles
1600)
Petroleum and Prod.
2.8 8600
.
Ferrous Metals
62.4
1.5
Cable and Wire
1.2
Chemicals
101.0 4.8
2)
Ferhilizers
60) (
7)
Paper
5.7
Nonferrous Metals
16.8
9
47,800
5000
Rubber
tons
5505
Sugar
2242
27 7a2
Tobacco
500
Jute
5.9
Wool, etc.
37.0
Scientific books
500 28
Cement
302,000 tons 2g
50,000 tons 2Q
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>ourt.e, Refe. races to ` oa-)les :L 3.
1. Unless o'rvhertrice 3ncli.c~zt a, e:g)ort;s to the F:r?ee World lzy ,r:, by
volume are Lased on the statistic] ci Free Wor?:Ld. c~ ttratzi.es -~ z ,,o ^i:? c l.r.-
the De
pertinent o(Coarme:rc .'s Co:modj.-;_,1% by cott;it,r~. >crt< .tA
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that some fi.Guures may be o-* r-va3
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a d. acme urlcl-Z w-a.tr.wci.
2. USSR, Z!tinis'F;ry of
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TT. ' _~ _? ?'' .t,Tx'se e:af?,..... ...... {_S 37i
1oscctw 19.53
,
" Anhe vallle of e,K, r"tV %C,? t lzta Ai ~. 1 t i h i (1 i r`l'I~. l(F!f% I F.i Ea t.fy.^
1;11^ vC) Lllm of these cyy o(;rra s the . ,Vl t ]' je 3? 1 ace Of he. C' Y,E C i , } 3 Yls' ~. . .
EX'ceptions are. doetirrented,
4? lai(3'l$L-S6, Dec 57, p'532, ,
A 56 : p rcent increa;:,r. in v,()1 rniU in .1.9 s6 over 1 )5,
equivalent to 250,000 tons of rolled steal. to-t;a,;, cl;xox
in 3.955+ would ~araount to x:,35 million. If the -Ta, :Lue of c,_l"naed Sc is a1;.o
tncreasea by 56 percent, then the valor.: of 1956 exports would t ";al
Million. Base"! on State, Bong Kong, survey of China :ss
[p(her ;c~:f'tez: referred to as S. of OI+'P))
C, Mr 56, p. 5, Ua
6. ' r ade Winds.," China R.aconstucts, `~~, ?~, 11e':l? a? L1! , L3.
7 ~ I5, , x,'..1.38, 18 Jul. 57, p. A3, U,
8 . 11U e>q)c,).r! s 1:t-) the E 'rope, ),n Jatel.i.d,tes a ieab)rn an 1 hav ,e(,er
eksstimtutted from l cl$'ia' data. The voliwe of ove.^Iind
Source: EXc .iu.1.-?s'6, Dec 57, p7,. 52, S.
9? State, Hong Kong, Currcxzt liacirt,rcaund, .212 ~''ul..`a7, U,.
1O,. Statc, Hone; KonC.;, 152, 19 Jul 57, p. 2. C
3.1.. State,' .Hong Kong, S of OI P, #1123, 3 mar 56, p. 5. U.
12. In some cases Free World countries reported the valve iritho7 ; th-
corresponding volLme. Where both value and volume trtwre reported
price was calculated. Total voltine cored be estimated then by d,. riding;ot. :i.s
average price into the. tot": 1. value of t: adc.
13. State, Hong Kong, Currant Ba ckggroiwd, -: 1+E> ' Jul 57, p. 16. U.
it "Trade W1nc1i China Reconstr.acts, ':f, L2 Feb 17, "ray 9, U