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