Word: importe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...African Empire, last year the scene of food riots, was doing so well by now that it expected to send up to 20 million bushels of surplus wheat and barley to the home country. France herself looked forward to a 295 million bushel wheat harvest, which would reduce her import needs from 70 million bushels in 1946 to a mere 20 million in 1947. Greece, Spain and Portugal hoped to raise grain production to approach their prewar levels. South Africa and Australia were expanding their wheat acreages. Argentina, drought-stricken last year, reported favorable crop conditions...
...would be poverty. The ignorance of the farmer, the infant mortality rate, the cholera epidemics, the biannual famine, are all results of the unhappy fact that there isn't enough to eat. India, whose population totals almost 400 million, and whose land area is actually a subcontinent, must import rice from Burma and Thailand. Her own production, per acre, is only one-third that of Japan. The average farmer earns about twenty dollars a year, when his land yields anything. When it fails, as it does so often, he gets into the statistics as one of the two million famine...
...reasons were just the opposite. Then all nations were gripped by deflation. They had unemployment, falling prices, and few had the cash to buy. Nations found that the best way to handle deflation was to export it. They devalued their currencies (to sell cheaper abroad and make imports dearer), upped their tariffs, set up import quotas. In short, they tried to dump their unemployment and deflation on one another. This policy failed dismally because everybody devalued. Instead of exporting deflation, everybody got poorer...
...Imported goods under price control (and Canada gets over three quarters of its imports from the U.S.) will be granted a smaller markup than goods made in Canada. This will not only reduce the profits from sales of imports from the U.S., it will also discourage imports. Government import subsidies, which cost Canada some $100,000,000 last year, will be increased, if necessary...
...race to grab a bigger chunk of the world trade market than it ever had before, Britain passed the first lap last week. And it was running well ahead of its schedule to pay off its import debts by exporting 75% more goods than it did in 1938. Only six months ago, the goal seemed impossibly distant. Exports were barely 50% of the 1938 monthly rate...