1. GOODS REQUIRED BY COMMUNIST CHINA 2. CHINESE GOODS OFFERED FOR EXPORT

• Document Type: CREST
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• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A007400650009-3
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• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 2, 2008
• Sequence Number: 9
• Publication Date: July 20, 1955
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
This material contains inforssation affecting the National Defense of tb. United States within the meaning of the ispiona(e laws, Title
18, U.S.C. Secs. 793 and 794, the transmission or revelation of which in any manner to an unauthorised person is prohibited by law.
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COUNTRY China
SUBJECT 1. Goods Required by Communist China DATE DISTR. 99 July 1955
2. Chinese Goods Offered for Export
DATE OF INFO.
PLACE ACQUIRED
DATE ACQUIRED
NO. OF PAGES 3
REQUIREMENT NO. RD
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th# China National Import and Uport Corpo-
ration' CNINC desired to impotst the following commoditiess<
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ae Aluminum foil for cigarette wrappers.
be Artificial teeth.
c. Chemicals: ammonium sulfate, needed in unlimited quantities for the
next two or three years, despite some
domestic production of it.
ammonium nitrate, needed in large quantities.
ammonium chloride, needed in large quantities.
aromatic compounds.
calcium cyanide, needed in large quantities.
calcium superphosphate, needed in large quantities
cobalt oxide.
hydrochloric acid.
Potassium bichromate.
potassium chloride.
sodium bichromate.
sodium naphthionate.
urea, needed in large quantities.
d. Cork plates.
e. Electrodes.
f. Fertilizers, of which 50,000 tons are required annually for the next
two or three years.
g. Fiber glass for insulating purposes.
h. Gum arabic.
i. Industrial diamonds.
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J. Perfume: for soap industry (essential oils, petigrain oil, 20-30 tons).
tobacco
soluble
k. Pharmaceuticals: antibiotics.
antipyretics (10 tons).
barbiturates.
sulfa drugs (20-30 tons in small packages).
1. Powder for the manufacture of plastics.
m. Precision apparatus.
n. Printing ink for newspapers.
o. Spare parts for general machinery, textile machinery, trucks and cars.
p. Textile industry
q. Tires for trucks and passenger cars. The local supply cannot meet the
demand, which fluctuates at a level above that of the local production.
r. Trucks. Even with the assistance of the new truck factory, under con-
struction will be necessary to import trucks.
cars and trucks were being supplied by the USSR and ungary.
a. Steel and iron products.
t. Wooltops.
2. CNIEC offered the following products for export:
a. Cereals: soybeans, groundnuts, and castor-oil seed constantly available.
Availability of other cereals depends on seasonal fluctuations.
b. Edible oils, cottonseed, peppermint oil, dried and preserved fruits.
c. Flax, jute, hemp, ramie fiber, ramie yarn, cotton waste strips.
d. Rattan, straw fiber suitable for brooms, hoods for the manufacture of
straw hats, bamboo, mother-of-pearl.
e. Embroidery, artwork, tablecloths.
f. Leather, leather goods, cashmere, carpets, brushes.
g. Bristles: Chungking - spotted No. 27
China - black 2" x 4"
Tientsin - 21" x 4"
Shanghai - 2" x 4"
h. Sheep intestines.
i. Tea, 64 different types, both green and black.
Comment. These entries are reported as received.
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