MUTUAL COOPERATIVE TRADING COMPANY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP83-00415R008500180001-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 7, 2012
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: July 12, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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1. The i utual Couioerative (3 rwz ) Trading Comvanv
The max,ager of the i utual Cooperative Trading Compaany - is SHIN Huan (7, )
North Chien Fang Street, Tientsin,. 50X1-HUM
office of the company is the lsr.utual Cooperative Company, 20 Leopold Building,
4o The Mutual Cooperative Trading Company is agent for the North China Foreign
Trade Administrative Bureau and the North Mina Trading Corporation and its
affiliated companies, which include the North China Import Company,, the
North China Trust, the North China Bristles Company, the North China Fur and
Wool Company, the North China Oil and Oil-Bearing Seed Company, the North
China Dative r`roduce Company, and the Tientsin Opium Prevention Bureau. In
addition; the mutual Cooperative Trading Company has a preferred status with
the following groups China lexti}.es
Industry, Tientsin; Fuel Industries ministry, Chinese Communist Centr6it150X1-HUM
Government; Ordnance uepartmeat, Chinese Communist Army, Cotton Guilt and
Blanket Factory, Tientsin; People's Bank, Stor?;ge, Transportation and Trust
Department, Tientsin branch; People's broadcasting Station,, Tientsin;
People's Government Pharmacy, Tientsin; i i.nistr?y of Public Security, Peiping
headquarters; kiiinistry of Railways, Tientsin office; 19 Army Group, Tientsin
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office, SIUENN was also negotiating with various mining corporations in Tsinaa
and the Northeast, as well as with the Canton Rear Service and Supply office,
for similar preferential standing as a business representative.
following business:
a. Imports to China:2
Vacuum tubes, condensers and sound recorders, for the
People's Broadcasting Station.
b. Exports from China 49000 tons of bean cakes from the ;Northeast.
6,000 tons of ground nuts.
In August 1960 the mutual Cooperative Trading Company expected, if it could
obtain enough cash to make a 20 percent 50X1-HUM
down payment on goods purchased, the following immediate business:
a. Imports to China: 200 tons of .4-inch iron bars.
the Mutual Cooperative Trading Company did the
500 tons of aluminum ingots and 500 tons of copper,
ordered by the North China hear service and Supply.
200 tons of Uisaal oil, ordered by the M.iniatry of
Fuel Inaustriea.
250 tons of fertilizer, purchased on a monthly basis.
60,000 pounds of hemp rope, ordered by the ; ilitary
Supply Uepartment,>
White clay, women's tablets (sic), and woven steel-
wire cloth, ordered by China Textile Industries.
100 tons of wattle bark9 Elephant brand, ordered by
he Uniform Works of the Military Supply !apartment.
200 tons of iron bars, for the Lainistry of Railways.
150 tons of smooth iron.
100 to 150 tons of iron plates.
15 to 20 tons of f lat iron.
High-speed anti-friction Babbitt metal.
Exports from China: 200,000 pounds of wool.
several thousand tons of bone powder.
A few hundred thousand catties of Shansi hemp.,
It is claimed that EIiE 's influence is such that his company can import such
banned articles as bicycles, waste paper and chemical fertilizer, and can
export soybeans, bristles and cowhide, the expc,rt of which is forbidden.
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10 to 30 percent.
Comment. Profits averaged from 5 to 15 percent on the export
Comment. The volume. of business was reduoed because of the
oompany's inability to pay oash for purchases,. Profits averaged from 50X1-HUM
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