ECONOMIC-SMUGGLING, MACHINE PARTS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00809A000700210213-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: R
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 10, 2002
• Sequence Number: 213
• Publication Date: March 18, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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Economic - Smuggling, machine parts
Daily newspaper
Penang
5 Dec 1952
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SOURCE Kuang-hua Jih-pact (pro-KMT).
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REPORT
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THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
SINGAPORE STOPS CHINA-DESTINED MACHINE PARTS;
THAILAND. BANS IMPORTS OF PARTS FROM BORDER COUNTRIES
Singapore customs authorities intercepted 46 cases of merchandise, worth
400,000 Straits dollars, which were being smuggled to Hong Kong on the Meng-
ai-wang Lhinese approximation of foreign name of vessel7 for transshipment to
Communist China. The merchandise consisted of items urgently needed in Com-
munist China such as spark plugs, automobile brakes, electrical appliances,
and other machine parts.
Meanwhile, Thai police are investigating a report that hundreds of cars
were smuggled into Thailand during the past few months. To prevent business-
men from evading automobile import restrictions by importing automobiles la-
beled as automobile parts, the Thai government has barred the import of auto-
mobile parts from Burma and Indochina. This resulted in the freezing of 3 mil-
lion baht's worth of the commodities along the Thai-Burma border. It is re-
ported that some bu::inessmen in Thailand hope to go to Singapore to buy automo-
bile parts and have already petitioned the British consul for visas.
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