CHINA RECEIVES FARM-EQUIPMENT FROM USSR; CCP REGULATES TRADE GOODS INSPECTION

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• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00809A000600330313-7
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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 26, 2011
• Sequence Number: 313
• Publication Date: July 28, 1950
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY REPORT
INFORMATION FROM
FOREIGN DOCUMENTS OR RADIO BROADCASTS CD NO.
COUNTRY china; USSR
SUBJECT Economic - Foreign trade
HOW
PUBLISHED Daily newspapers
WHERE
PUBLISHED Shanghai
DATE
PUBLISHED 31 May 1950
LANGUAGE Chinese
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SUPPLEMENT TO
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THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
CHM RECEIVES FARM?EQUIPMENT FROM USSR;
CCP RERE S TRADE GOODS INSPECTION
USSR FARM MACHINERY REACHES CHINA -- Shanghai Ta Kung Pao, 31 May 50
Peiping, 29 May \(BQin-hue) -- The first shipment of agricultural reconstruc-
tion materials, for which contracts were made with the USSR by the Ministry of
Agriculture of the Central People?s government, vas delivered Rt the end of April
3950 and has been distributed for use in various districts according to plans.
This shipment included farm machinery, breeding animals, and pasturage
seed. The following machines have been delivered:
Tractors
114
Combines
74
Planters, 2I- and 16-row
272
Spacing planters
70
Planter attachment sets
50
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The following items have also been received in unspecified numbers: mowers,
threshers, disc plows, spike plows, plowshares. balers, manure spreaders, seed
graders, bean planters, bean harvesters, work carts, and oil: carts Repair tools
and extra parts were also included ii; the shipment.
These items were distributed by the Ministry of Agriculture to various na-
tional agriculture stations in the North, East, and Northeast China districts
during the spring planting season. The Ministry of Agriculture's School of Me-
chaenized Farming has given priority to the training of technicians to operate
this machinery. These trained technicians are now receiving actual experience
at various wheat stations and are preparing to operate the new machinery in the
summer harvest.
The shipmeni; of superior breeding animals includes. 250' sheep, 50-pigs, and
1,125 horses. These sni de have been sent to various husbandry stations in the
.Northeast, Chahar, Shansi, and Suiyuan for breeding, to relieve the shortage of.
work animals and to raise the quality of the breed. In addition, 90 sets of arti-
ficial insemination equipment have been distributed to various Northeast husban-
dry stations.
DATE OF
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Some 130,000 kilograms of pasturage seed have been received and distributed
by the Ministry of Agriculture to Chahar and Suiyuan. This type of pasturage
makes excellent fertilizer and, if rotated with cotton and grains, should in-
crease the production of these crops several times.
REGULATES IMPORT, EXPORT INSPECTION -- Shanghai Hsin-wen Jih-pao, 31 May 50
Peiping -- The Finance and Economic Committee of the Administration Council
has issued the following regulations for the guidance of the Ministry of Trade
concerning the inspection of imports and exports during 1950.
The chart of items to be inspected, by classes, is as follows:
Exports
1.
Beans -- 25 varieties
2.
Peanuts
3.
Vegetable seeds -- 9 varieties, including several oil seeds
4.
Fruit seeds -- 6 varieties
5.
Hemp -- 4 varieties
6.
Cotton waste
7.
Tobaccoo -- leaf
8.
Tea -- 12 varieties
9.
Bristles, hair, and wool -- 22 varieties
10.
Down and feathers -- 11 varieties
11.
Pelts -- 36 varieties
12.
Hides -?? 7 varieties
13.
Casings -- 14 varieties
14.
Meats -- 9 varieties
15.
Eggs -- 7 varieties
16.
Egg products -- 11 varieties
17.
Animal fats - 3 varieties
18.
Raw silk
19.
Vegetable oils -- 17 varieties
20.
Oil-residue cake -- 6 varieties
21.
Bone meal -- 4 varieties
22.
Hoofs
23.
Salt -- 2 varieties
24.
Cinnamon-- 3 varieties
25.
Materia medics -- 4 varieties
26.
Minerals -- tungsten, antimony, tin
Some 20 other-exports are also under study for inspection.
Imports
1. Cotton -- 4 varieties
2. Cereals -- rice
3. Chemical fertilizers -- 10 varieties
Study is being given to the inclusion of five other imports.
Imports and Exports
? Vegetable plants
Nursery plants (inspected for plant pests or diseases)
Inspection fees will range from .002 to ODCe ad valorem according to type
of goods.
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The period of validity of inspect?.on certificates for imports varies from
two weeks for eggs to 6 months for silk, with other items in between at from
one to 3 months.
The period of validity of import permits are as follows: commercial fer-
tilizers 1 year; grape sugar, 3 months; cotton, 3 months; and cereals, 6 months.
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