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Full referenceU.S. Department of Commerce. Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce, Where China Buys and Sells (1935)
TypeBook
Author(s)U.S. Department of Commerce. Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce
TitleWhere China Buys and Sells
Year1935
Year of publication1935
Place of publicationWashington, D.C.
PublisherU.S. Government Printing Office
CollectionTrade Information Bulletin
Volume827
Number of Pages57
LanguageEnglish
Keywordstrade; bulletin; information; population; consumer; statistics; market; commodities; foodstuffs; communication; classification;
Abstract

Contents

Foreword

Introduction

  • Economic status of the Chinese people
  • Average annual income of Chinese family
  • China as a market for Western products
  • Limiting factors in China as a market 
  • Importance of cottage industries
  • China as a producer of foodstuffs
  • China's wide range of special products 

Import commodities

  • Cotton piece goods
  • Raw cotton
  • Cotton yarns
  • Woolen yarns
  • Iron, steel, and machinery
  • Electrical equipment 
    • Radio sets and telephone equipment 
  • Aircraft and accessories 
  • Railway materials
  • Motor cars, trucks and busses 
    • Tires and tubes
  • Chemicals, chemical compounds, and medicinal preparations
  • Dyes, inks, paints and varnishes
  • Petroleum products
    • Liquid fuel and lubricating oils 
  • Leather and leather manufactures
  • Paper, including newsprint
  • Timber and wood
    • Railway sleepers
  • Photographic materials 
  • Cigarettes and leaf tobacco
  • Wheat, wheat flour, and cereals 
  • Foodstuffs
    • Condensed milk
    • Fish and other sea foods
    • Fruits and vegetables
  • Miscellaneous items
  • Early China trade
  • A typical carge from China 
  • Trade with Great Britain 
  • World War initiates American prominence

Export commodities

  • Raw silk
  • Tea 
  • Eggs and egg products
  • Tung (wood) oil
  • Hides, skins, and furs
  • Beans and bean products
  • Raw cotton
  • BRistles
  • SAusage casings
  • Peanuts and peanut oil
  • Walnuts
  • Oilseeds and their byproducts
  • Wools and carpets
  • Embroideries and laces 
  • Hats, straw and fiber
  • Hair nets
  • Tungsten
  • Antimony
  • Tin

Sidelights on the Chinese market

  • Cultivated area inadequate
  • Chinese a conservative people
  • Competition of domestic manufactures
  • Chinese capital in joint enterprises
  • Invisible exports 
  • Influaence of foreign population
  • Progress since the revolution

Appendix

  • Conversion of Chinese currency
  1. China's imports, by commodities and countries of origin
  2. China's exports, by commodities and principal countries
  3. China's trade, by principal countries, 1929-34
  4. Value of machinery imported into China, 1932-34
  5. Imports of machinery into China from the four principal countries 
  • Bibliography
Note

Includes statistics and bibliography. Comprises a substantial section on the Chinese population and China as a market (economic status of Chinese people, average income, market for western products, limiting factors, China as a producer of foodstuffs...). Emphasizes the significance of WWI for the American penetration of the China market. Also includes a section "Sidelights on the Chinese market" (Chinese as a conservative people, invisible exports...).

Source: Hoover Archives, Julean Arnold Papers (1905-1945), Box 9, folder "Commerce and Trade"

 

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