Word: exportations
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Fate of the Nation. With dark forebodings of continued fuel cuts, rationing and scarcity of consumer goods, the White Paper said: "We may never restore the foundations of our national life" if 1947's production and export goals were...
...road economic remedies if English mines continue to send spasms of paralysis through British industry. Democratic moderates in France and the Low Countries has looked to a flow of consumers goods from these factories to clothe and comfort their shabbily-dressed millions while at the same time the export of processed foods to England was to be balanced by this trade. To Germans the British dimout meant that the industrial rehabilitation of their country must await stimulus from the east, since Newcastle can scarcely afford coals for its own mills, much less for export...
...wild rumors let loose by a reported U.S. decision on export subsidies pointed up the need for a new U.S.-China policy to replace the outworn mediation policy abandoned last month when George Marshall left China. TIME Correspondent Frederick Gruin then cabled: "It looks as if the book of mediation is now definitely closed. A new book must be opened, and its cover must be turned in Washington. The Secretary of State and the U.S. people must choose one of three possible policies toward China-a policy of confusion and aimless drift; a policy of complete withdrawal, which influential voices...
China's monetary crisis last weekend inspired an excited Associated Press cable from Shanghai: "An American consular announcement today blasted Chinese Premier T. V. Soong's abortive 100% export subsidy program, as Chinese currency continued its dizzy descent, and the complete economic collapse of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalist China appeared to be a very real possibility...
Last week Premier T. V. Soong attempted to help the export trade by establishing a separate exchange rate for it, similar to a separate rate uneventfully set up a few weeks ago for remittances by overseas Chinese. Unfortunately, in announcing the new export rate, Soong used the words "export subsidy." Shanghai businessmen are aware that U.S. law permits the imposition of countervailing tariffs on goods sent to the U.S. under export subsidies by foreign governments. Shanghai believed that the U.S. Consulate had announced that it would invoke the countervailing machinery against Soong's subsidies. Some Chinese drew from that...