The Archive · 1940

China's Foreign Trade

One of the amazing paradoxes of China apparently. unrelated to any known economic Principal is revealed in the annual statistical Feport of the Chinese Maritimes Customs which aircraft industry has filled orders for 1,450 hows that the total" revenue collection last planes already and 7,700 more machines must Btye'polica given Medals for Valour year, in terms of national currency, was S331,- be delivered in the near future, the first deliver~ Market Prices 360,000, an increase: of $16,000,000, or fics to commence within a month, to the US. [Government and foreign countries. Of this total Fee "Ruslan Colony mately' 20 per cent, on the previous year. Thi Teprescnted Customs. revenue on tolal.forgign Britain and France will take 5,000 machines Fats, Maseru fon, Member of RAYA. rade, expressed in Chinese. national dollars, of between them, with further orders to be filled $2,34,000,000 compared with $1,519,00,000" as the war progresses. As the US. Government

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