But the balance of trade stands heavily in favour of the Netherlands. American purchases of rubber, tin. quinine and other drugs and spices jumped from a combined total of $68.000.000 in 1938 to $93.000.000 in 1939, and then up $167,000,000 in 1940.
If the sea lanes domain uninterrupted our purchases of Neth-errands Indies products are expected to approach the $200,000.000 mark this year.
The United States is buying approximately 60 per cent. of the Netherlands Indies' total output of tin and rubber. In accumulating huge reserves of such strategic raw materials the United States is receiving the fullest cooperation of the Netherlands Indies and the government of the Netherlands in exile.
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