TA-LIEN--LU-SHUN EXPORTS EXCEED IMPORTS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00809A000600260477-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: R
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 3, 2011
• Sequence Number: 477
• Publication Date: October 31, 1949
• Content Type: REPORT

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PUBLISHED 23 Sep 1949
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Since the liberation of the Lu-r~hun (Port F.rthur)--Ta-lien area, Indus-
.---------- +....-. owAOU aL.uA oxpcuaea, 6IIa. 1mpOY'te eA3 exports hav6
lnarea~wd- Lrorei~ trade has been controlled eo that impact and espart treae-
aptioaa T-re T4ade according to neg3e, and also to enanre That impacts may not
be~'~Qater than aapcrte.
Index figurbe, ehoWiug average monthly values of the import-export trade
for 184E - 1949, Nr~s a3 fvllarss
TbCr Index 1''iQUr9
1946 loo
194" 4z6
1.948 1,434
lgko lle'r 6 montkt3) 1,819
2eroeatage comparison cf the value of imports an3 erporte mny be en~n
in tilt' fc~Llwing table:
DATE OF
1NFCRMATION 1849
DATE DIST. .~/ Cict 1949 .
fNO. CF PAGF$ 2
SUPPLEMENT TO
kEPORT N0.
THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
Ysar in ate &iaacte
1946 78 a2
1947 70,25 29.75
1948
1949 (net 6.monthe)45.91 54.e9
Camwdities imported during the grit 3~ years have consisted ouiefly of
raw mtsrinle, ladnetrinl equipment, +ndnetrinl oil, fnel, phnn+nceaticale,
fprtilisera, sad food. Of these, fond impacts havr amounted to 53.13 percen*,
of the total. Commodities which have been expaa~ted inclade each indaetrial and
ldcal;~rodacte ae cotto: taztil;,s (55.8 percazt of the total}; chemicals, ~t7sa
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nud paints (1Go29 p2rceat;; marine pr~'''ucte (7.39 Percettt); oerauica seat glteae
46.29 percent); oils, fate, waxes, and seep (5.28 percent),; and mr~tale and
fetal Prpduace (3.56 psresntl,
Prior to 191+8, the harbors in the lu-ehun-Ta??lien area were blaakEdad by
the I(liP, The only trades actlvltiee possible were with Barth Aarea and tda~rth
~ncharia. Ia additioa~ induetriel and farm
rodaeti
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n this area had not
yet recovered and it became increasingly important to impart foad for the ppppl~.
aSl 1948 YaatoL?1a8 wii]'[j t?Ra4nroA w?A e,...~...,~i...__
This year, in 1949, ae a result of-iuatrial developmantaaexPpr~ a have ezpec~dsd
itmiroorts.
Ta-lien is tis? fecal point for. eollactian and distribution of Praduete pf
th? 14orthear~t. Pr1or to the surrender cf the JapaneQe, 'ia-lien harbor bud the
facilitise to load an3 unload, 12 million ions anas~a;l2.y end the ability to
accompdata 40 mediwadsize ?eaaals at one t+~as, with loading and wnlaadiag apace.
$h1p? with a displacement of 2Uy0Q0 tone were able to sachet in the barber.
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