CARGO RATES FROM POLAND TO CHINA IN 1952

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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 10, 2011
• Sequence Number: 399
• Publication Date: November 25, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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CLASSIFICATION RESTRICTED
SECURITY INFORMATION
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY REPORT
INFORMATION FROM
FOREIGN DOCUMENTS OR RADIO BROADCASTS CD NO.
COUNTRY
SUBJECT
HOW
PUBLISHED
WHERE
PUBLISHED
DATE
PUBLISHED
LANGUAGE
Poland; German Democratic Republic
Economic - Shipping rates
Transportation - Water
Semiweekly newspaper
DATE OF
INFORMATION 1952
DATE DIS N v 1952
NO. OF PAGES li
SUPPLEMENT TO
REPORT NO.
THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
The following list of cargo rates from Poland to China are published
5n Berli7 to give exporters in the German Democratic Republic a basis for
calculating their cif shipments to China. The rates are valid for shipments
from Gdansk, Gdynia, and Szczecin to the main ports of China. Although the
rates of the East Asia Conference no further identification give have been
adopted, it must be pointed out that the conference cannot offer any oppor-
tunities for shipment at.present. .Loading opportunities at the above-men-
t,oned,ports are available only through Polish state-owned shipping facilities.
The rates are in English shillings per 1,000 kilograms with a 1- percent
deduction, or per cubic meter without deduction, depending on the ship. Con-
tracting parties belonging to the conference receive a 94 percent rate deduc-
tion.
All rates are subject to a surcharge of 10/-less 11 percent per 1,000
kilograms or 9/- per cubic meter, depending on the ship.
An additional heavy-weight rate is charged for units heavier than 2,000
kilograms and the same is true for lengths over 9.20 meters.
Per 1,x00 Kg
Minus 1
Per Cu M
Without
Deduction
Axles for carts (not for motor
(in a/d)
in -.Td
vehicles or railroad cars, not
crated)
197/6
--
215/-
195/-
145/-
132/6
STATE
ARMY
CLASSIFICATION
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Caustic soda, liquid in drums
Accordions, 3 percent of the value or
Activated carbon
Aluminoferric material
Aluminum straps, aluminum sheets more
than 0.006 inches thick and aluminum
stripe, also corrugated (no
duraluminum)
197/6
180/-
Aluminum chloride, crystallized
285/-
257/6
Aluminum chloride anhydrous
320/-
287/6
Aluminum pressure cooker
215/-
195/-
Aluminum foils 0.006 inches and less
thick
245/-
220/-
Aluminum spoons, forks, plates
215/-
195/-
Aluminum home and kitchen appliances
215/-
195/-
Aluminum insulation foils, highly
corrugated, in cartons measuring
not less than 20-fold
145/-
132/6
Aluminum buckets, pots, trays
197/6
180/-
Aluminum and aluminum alloys including
duraluminum and similar alloys in
ingots, sheets, pipes, strips, straps,
and wires, fob value up to 180 pounds
sterling per freight ton
245/-
220/-
The same fob value over 180 pounds
sterling per freight ton, 3 percent
of th.. value or
262/6
237/6
Aluminum oxide
225/-
202/6
Aluminum paste and aluminum powder
225/-
202/6
Aluminum sheets in sections for
construction of motor cars
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Aluminum rope with steel
core
Aluminum ingots or bars, no
duraluminum or similar alloys,
not packed
215/-
195/-
The same, packed
245/-
220/-
Aluminum, corrugated sheets
245/-
220/-
Aniline oil, on deck
352/6
317/6
Aniline salts
215/-
195/-
Antichlorine
150/-
137/6
Equipment--electrical and
telegraphical, not scientific,
medical or instruments
Equipment--medical, electromedical,
and accessories, 3 percent of value or
252/6
237/6
Arsenic
307/6
287/6
Arsenic, crude
225/-
202/6
Asbestos, miscellaneous
215/-
195/-
Asbestos conbtruction plates
145/-
132/6
Asbestos packing plates
187/6
170/-
Asbestos filter plates
215/-
195/-
Asbestos paper covered with aluminum
foils
245/-
220/-
Asbestos board
16o/-
147/6
Asbestos, crude and ground
275/-
Asbestos material asbestos fibers,
asbestos mattresses, paper, cords,
cloth, threads, yarns
Asbestos cement plates covered with
thin copper layer
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Per 1,000 Kg
Mi.
(in s
The same, decorated
160/-
The same, with aluminum rim
Asphalt, solid and semisolid
145/-
The same, waterproof plates
The same, liquid in drums
145/-
Aluminum alloy sinks and drainboards
215/-
Stainless steel sinks
The same, enameled or otherwise, cast
iron
160/-
Sinks, stoneware, also vashbasins
150/-
Acetone, pure
352/6
Baking powder
250/-
Bathtubs
172/6
Bakelite buckets, bakelite plates,
bakelite trays
197/6
Bakelite molding powder
225/-
Bakelite insulators
215/-
Bakelite plates
262/6
Cotton goods
262/6
Bedsteads, spring mattresses, etc.
172/6
Beer in bottles and kegs
187/6
Faller's earth
197/6
Pencils and colored pencils
262/6
Frames for glasses
262/6
Parts for bridges, iron and steel,
not packed
172/6
262/6
307/6
RESTRICTED
le,
195/-
147/6
137/6
317/6
220/-
157/6
180/-
202/6
195/-
237/6
237/6
157/6
170/-
180/-
237/6
237/6
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237/6
277/6
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225/-
225/-
155/-
225/-
225/-
307/6
187/6
225/-
172/6
245/-
262/6
Per Cu M
Without
Deduction
ff.-s d
157/6
157/6
132/6
202/6
202/6
202/6
202/6
277/6
170/-
202/6
157/6
220/-
237/6
262/6 237/6
447/6
145/-
427/6
132/6
225/-
137/6
137/6
137/6
187/6
172/6
127/6
127/6
170/-
157/6
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Roof windows
Roofing Pasteboard
Demijohns, empty
Die infection materials, liquid and
powder
Bicycles with auxiliary motor
Iron and steel, packed, no finished
goods, fob value not over 50
pounds sterling, per ton
Hardware
Electric appliances and machines
Essences and essence oils
Bicycles and tricycles
Bicycles with servomotor
Dyes, aniline
Inks, printing
Binoculars, 3 percent of fob value or
Films, unexposed, 3'percent of;fob value
Films, exposed, motion picture,
lowest rate per box 70/-
Bottles, empty, glass
Textiles, cotton meter 5ar9 goods,
wool, linen, rayon
Glass, ordinary window glass
Glass bottles for thermos bottles
Glass, hollow
Bulbs, electrical
Wood products
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Per 1,000 Kg
Minus 1
insd
Instruments, 3 percent of fob
value or
262/6
Insulators, stoneware, porcelain
16o/-
Insulation construction sheets not
asbestos sheets)
Up to 3 units
Over 3 units
Insulating compound against heat and
cold in sacks, drums, and casks
In crates
Filing cabinets (metal)
Kettles (kitchen kettles with spout)
of enameled steel or aluminum, not
electric up to 4 measurement units
Over 4 measurement units
Boilers, steam boilers of all kinds,
complete or disassembled
Chains for bicycles and tricycles
Chains for motorcycles
Chains (small machine parts), in bulk
Kieselguhr (diatomaceous earth)
Motion-picture equipment and machines,
3 percent of fob value or
Clamps and pins, steel
Buttons, miscellaneous, 3 percent of
fob value or
Cookers, electrical
Kitchen pots (iron, steel, tin)
Baskets
Cosmetics, no perfumes, 3 percent
of fob value or
Motor vehicle bodies, complete,
Motor vehicles bodies, disassembled
245/-
125/- 115/-
215/- 195/-
197/6 180/-
215/-
215/-
225/-
172/6
172/6
Per Cu M
Without
Deduction
insd
237/6
147/6
195/-
195/-
202/6
262/6 237/6
215/- 195/-
262/6 237/6
197/6 180/-
197/6 180/-
262/6 237/6
262/6 237/6
147/6 170/-
197/6 180/-
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Motor vehicles of all kinds and motor
vehicle chassis (the complete vehicle
without body), disassembled and packed
in units forming a complete vehicle,
without spare parts and equipment
Motor vehicles, aelivery tricycles
Motor vehicles and delivery motor
cars, complete, packed in one crate,
Unarated
Per 1,000 Kg
Minus 1
%
in-s-/d-)-
Per Cu M
Without
Deduction
ins d
Motor vehicle chassis, complete,
assembled
Motor ve'icles, springs and spring
gads for
Motor vehicle bumpers, hoods, cabins,
wheel disks, doors, baggage racks,
fenders, gasoline tanks, running
boards;, radiator guards, wheels, wind-
shields, motor car chassis frames
Motor vehicle parts and equipment,
miscellaneous
Trucks (if packed in Crates c.:n be
measured i7x ee.?ctione) t r~ ;ec ambu-
lances, house-trailers, &ud trailers,
complete, assembled (though without
wheels and axles)
Refrigerators
Ball bearings
Plastics, raw
Plastics, synthetic emulsion, in drums
Plastics, miscellaneous
Rayon yarn and thread
Rayon goods
Rayon waste, in bulk
Artificial wool
Copper, miscellaneous, copper ingots
and sheets, not bent
197/6
187/6
172/6
215/-
180/-
170/-
157/ 6
195/-
187/6
170/-
215,'-
195/-
215/-
195/-
225/-
202/6
215/-
195/-
262/6
237/6
197/6
180/-
262/6
237/6
172/6
157/G
197/6
180/-
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Copper sheets and plates, bent
Copper sulfate
Copper goods, miscellaneous
Lamps and lamp parts, miscellaneous
Lamp parts, electrical miscellaneous,
and fittings
Lamps for bicycles, motorcycles, motor
vehicles, mineral electrical head and
lamps for railroad cars
Leather and leather goods, leather
material and leather waste, leather,
miscellaneous, leatherette material
Leather cardboard in bales and bundles
Linen goods
spoons, steel
soldering lamps
Air guns
Millstone runners
Malt in crates
Malt in sacks
Machines and machine parts, ordinary,
electrical, and apparatus of all
kinds, miscellaneous, including,
agricultural tools, spinning and
weaving machines, excluding
generators for bicycle lamps
Matrix cardboard
Medicaments, tinctures with low
flame (ignition) point, above or
below deck
Meters, gas and electric meters
Water meters with pipes if part
of meter
Per 1,000
Per 1 Kg
in e d
225/-
187/6
262/6
187/6
Per Cu M
Without
Deduction
(In s d
237/6
170/-
262/6
237/6
215/-
195/-
262/6
237/6
215/-
195/-
215/-
195/-
262/2
237/6
215/-
195/-
160/-
147/6
262/6
215/-
215/-
352/6
al5/-
195/-
195/-
317/6
195/-
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Brass, miscellaneous, and brass sheets,
rods, pipes, not bent
Brass sheets and plates, bent
Brass goods, miscellaneous
Milk powder, miscellaneous
Milk powder in sacks or drums
Mineral dye bases such as be.rite,
lead chromate, chromium oxide,
artificial Hallenser black, iron
oxide, Cassel brown, lithopone, ocher,
terre-verte, cinnabar, artificial zinc
oxide mixture, fob value not over 40
pounds sterling per ton weight in sacks
Otherwise packed
Fob value over 40 pounds
Per Cu M
Per 1,000 Kg Without
Minus 1 Deduction
(in s d in e d
215/- --
225/- 202/6
262/6 237/6
245/- 220/-
172/6 157/6
137/6 127/6
130/- 120/-
225/- 202/6
Furniture, carved wooden furniture,
folding furniture, wickerwork
furniture 150/- 137/6
Furniture, from tubular steel 187/6 170/-
Motors for motor vehicles and
motorcycles 215/- 195/-
Motors for phonographs and
mechanical musical instruments 262/6 237/6
Motorcycles, equipment, parts,
miscellaneous units
255/- 202/6
Sidecars for motorcycles 197/6 180/-
Motor rollers 215/- 197/6
215/- 197/6
Musical instruments, 3 percent of
fob value or 215/- 197/6
Needles of all kinds, including sail
needles, knitting, mending and sack
needles, also phonograph needles,
3 percent of fob value or 262/6 237/6
Needles, pins, drawing needles and 6
drawing points 215/- 197/
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Nails of all kinds, miscellaneous
(not including copper, brass, and
other nails and points but including
iron and zinc nails and points)
Sewing thread cotton and cotton yarn
Nails and- points of corner, and
other nonferrous metal
Nails, aluminum, in crates
-Nails, boot nails
Nails for upholsterers
Sewing machines
Naphthalene, in sacks
In crates, casks and drums
Rivets of aluminum, copper or other
nonferrous metal and rivets
miscellaneous
Notebooks
Nylon goods and yarns, 3 percent of
fob value or
Optical equipment and instruments,
3 percent of fob value or
Paper in crates or boxes, miscellaneous
Paper in bales and in rolls,
miscellaneous
Paper, covered with aluminum foil
Paper envelopes, fob value to 50
pounds sterling per freight tonnage
fob value over 50 pounds sterling
Paper, varicolored paper, glazed paper,
or covered with gold foil
Paper, filter paper
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RESTRICTED
Per 1,000 Kg
Minus 14 %
Per Cu M
Without
Deduction
(in d
ins d
160/-
--
197/6
180/-
245/-
220/-
245/-
220/-
160/-
--
215/-
197/6
187/6
170/-
172/6
--
172/6
157/6
*5/-
220/-
262/6
237/6
2?5/-
257/6
197/6
180/-
215/-
195/-
262/6
237/6
197/6
180/-
275/-
197/6
180/-
197/6
180/-
262/6
237/6
262/6
237/6
262/6
237/6
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Paper, oiled or waxed
Paper, waxed pecking paper
Paper, corrugated
Paper, glass paper, sandpaper
Paper, rubberized
Paper, insulation paper
Paper, carbon paper
Paper, crepe paper in rolls or bales
Paper, photosensitive
Paper, blotting Paper, !n bales over
Two measurement units
Less than two measurement units
In boxes
Paper, packing paper, impregnated or
covered, miscellaneous, in bales,
except waxed paper
The same in boxes
Paper, parchment paper
Paper sacks for cement and similar
goods
320/-
215/-
262/6
320/-
262/6
275/-
197/6
262/6
Per Cu M
Without
Deduction
in s d
220/-
195/-
115/-
170/-
180/-
195/-
237/6
180/-
237/6
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