Word: tradings
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Long before the 1938 recession gave U. S. -Japanese trade a final shove down grade, indignant U. S. buyers had begun to boycott Japanese goods, and long before the rape of Nanking Japanese sellers began to feel the pinch. Since Japan had only a pipsqueak gold hoard (published reserve then $261,000,000, now close to zero), Japan's merchant salesmen had to sell more goods in the U. S. before Japan's buyers could get more money to spend in the U. S. market...
Since last winter the Government-subsidized Japan Foreign Trade Bureau has taken offices in San Francisco, in Houston, in Chicago. Two weeks after Germany had made an alliance with Japan's enemy, Russia, grinning Director Suejiro Ogawa of the Chicago bureau decided the time had come to get busy. In the New York Journal of Commerce he ran a full-page advertisement: "Japan is America's Third Largest Customer ... if America would buy more Japanese goods United States exports to Japan could be expanded to even larger proportions...
Week later, to 5,000 businessmen and editors 45-year-old Mr. Ogawa sent a persuasive letter: "My office stands ready . . . to provide any information. . . . Our files on trade . . . are comprehensive and complete." To 50 businessmen who had answered by last week's end, Mr. Ogawa and his six Japanese office helpers had a service to offer. No buyer of materials, like Russia's Amtorg, the Japan Foreign Trade Bureau proposed to act as a two-way middleman: not only to help Japanese dealers find markets in the U. S., but to help U. S. merchants sell...
...basis of U. S.-Latin American policy is that the bonds of trade are stronger than non-aggression pacts, more enduring thin military alliances. Last week, the U. S. and the 20 Latin American republics sat down at the council table in walled Panama City to close a united trade front against commerce-ruining European...
...British blockade has cut off the wind of Nazi Germany's Latin American trade, putting the U. S.'s No. 1 competitor in this hemisphere out of the market. Britain still shops heavily in the Latin American market for war and food supplies, but is too thoroughly occupied by war to maintain her exports. France is in the same boat, and jittery Italy does not yet know where she stands...