Word: importance
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...step up immediate trade, the U. S. Export-Import Bank lent Chile...
...will be some time before the Allies will be forced to import heavily from the United States, according to the international trade authority. If the Allies should buy large supplies of war materials from this country, he foresees a centralized purchasing agency here under Allied, and perhaps American, control...
Forlorn note of cheer: marine underwriters lowered war-risk rates 1% on belligerent flag vessels to and from Europe and on U. S. flag vessels cargoing imports on the northern route; on the southern route, 1½ on belligerent vessels, ½on U. S. ships. Rates both ways for belligerents' vessels had been 7% on the northern route, 7½% on the southern; for U. S. vessels, 2½% on the northern, 2% on the southern. The export rate on U. S. vessels remained unchanged for both routes. The import rate on other neutral flag vessels was held...
...commodities were booming. The basis for this boom, as for better stock prices, was the calculation of the funds which foreign Governments have for purchases in the U. S. Belligerents who have defaulted on U. S. loans cannot borrow in the U. S. in ordinary ways, but the Export-Import Bank has funds that it can lend to exporters of U. S. products. Last week RFC announced it would be glad to help...
...successor his walking papers. Oriental Consolidated was the oldest, biggest, richest, gold mining company in the Orient. Japan wryly observed the provisions of Oriental's charter: for payment of Y25,000 (about $8,500) annually to the Chosen Government, the mining company was free from all taxes, import-export duties. Eight years ago Japan got tough, embargoed gold exports, forced Oriental to sell gold to her at prices below the world market, paid off in unsteady Yen. Last week Oriental, last big U. S. concession in Korea, got out while the going was still passable...