A Movement Gradually to Eliminate All Imports Nanking, June 18.
The wide-spread agitation for the imposition of a ban on the import of Siamese rice, as a retaliatory measure against the alleged ill-treatment of Chinese in Siam by the Siamese Government, has directed the attention of the Ministry of Industries to. the problem of how to make China self-sufficient in food supplies.
According to Mr. Chen Kung-po, Minister of Industries, the amount of foodstuff imports during the past three years has been alarming. In 1932, such imports were valued at '$196520.249, which was over 12 per cent. of the total of all imports during the year. In 1989, despite a good harvest, there was a sharp increase la foodstuff imports, the total value being $266,670,800, which was over 19 per cent. of the total of all imports. In 1994 there was a decrease in the import of foodstuffs, but it was still as much as $104,628,961, which was over 10 per cent. of the' value of all imports,
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