The use of any of these four routes, however, entails such as increase in the costs of transportation that it is unlikely that they will be used for any American exports, other than those of a strictly military character, the Institute said.
As a consequence, the virtual doom of American trade in China under present conditions is foreseen.
American exports to China in the months immediately prior to the outbreak of hostilities in the Orient averaged about five million dollars a month. With the beginning of the war, they fell to about U.S.$1,500,000 per month, picking up later to nearly U.S.$4,000,000.
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