Word: tradings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With coffee selling at $1.20 a pound and only two ounces available per customer, the Propaganda Ministry attributed the coffee famine to "various interruptions in German-Brazilian trade, caused by pressure from the U. S." Brazil has occasionally broken off her barter dealings with Germany, but they are not broken now. Real causes for the German shortage are three: 1) determination of the Nazis to import more war materials, less foodstuffs; 2) extensive additional needs of coffee-addicted Austria; 3) a Nazi practice of selling imported Brazilian coffee to Central Europe to bring in much-needed foreign currencies...
...trade supremacy in Argentina threatened, Britain some time ago began to knobble U. S. competition. She reportedly "requested" Argentina not to use British sterling to balance her obligations to the U. S., and Argentina is anxious to keep the economic patronage of a nation which buys the largest share of her chief products, grains and meat. Three months ago Argentina went further, set up a rigid exchange control plan...
Despite the fears of U. S. business interests that the dictator states of Europe are taking over the trade of Latin America, the bitterest trade competitor of the U. S. in Argentina at present is no totalitarian state but a democratic nation of traders, Great Britain. Although overtaken in many Latin American countries by the U. S. and pressed hard in others, in Argentina Britain still holds a handful of trump cards and by last week it became apparent that she is playing them in a manner calculated to take all the tricks...
Despite these hard feelings, U. S. sales to Argentina have cut heavily into Britain's trade and during the first eleven months of 1938 the U. S. managed to ship to Argentina $230,988,648 worth of goods to Britain...
Importers of goods from nations with which Argentina has an unfavorable trade balance-the U. S., Italy, Japan, Sweden and others-were ordered to procure special permits in order to bring in goods, effective January 1. The theory was that total value of permits would not be allowed to exceed the total value of Argentine exports to those countries. The catch has been that no permits for imports of U. S. automobiles, foodstuffs, tobacco, sporting goods, toys, etc. have been issued by the Government. General Motors Corp., for instance, with only a three months' supply of cars on hand...