[In millions of U. S. dollars]
--------------+-----------+-----------+----------+----------
| | | |
Month | Total | European | U.S.S.R. | China
|Soviet bloc| Satellites| |
--------------+-----------+-----------+----------+----------
1952: | | | |
January | 107.8 | 58.7 | 39.1 | 10.0
February | 121.4 | 51.3 | 48.9 | 21.2
March | 129.2 | 67.8 | 53.4 | 8.0
April | 114.8 | 53.1 | 40.7 | 21.0
May | 139.4 | 52.4 | 52.5 | 34.5
June | 109.4 | 56.1 | 30.7 | 22.6
July | 118.0 | 53.5 | 39.2 | 25.3
August | 125.4 | 53.2 | 39.3 | 32.9
September | 89.5 | 45.6 | 23.9 | 20.0
October | 104.6 | 50.4 | 34.6 | 19.6
November | 120.4 | 55.7 | 40.1 | 24.6
December | 139.3 | 72.5 | 38.0 | 28.8
1953: | | | |
January | 119.3 | 54.9 | 25.9 | 38.5
February | 97.1 | 48.6 | 23.5 | 25.0
March | 123.9 | 61.2 | 33.3 | 29.4
April | 110.9 | 53.2 | 26.8 | 30.9
May | 88.4 | 43.4 | 25.8 | 19.2
June | 100.9 | 51.9 | 27.2 | 21.8
July | 104.4 | 55.2 | 30.7 | 18.5
August | 113.2 | 56.1 | 37.8 | 19.3
September | 90.3 | 47.7 | 30.0 | 12.6
October | 118.4 | 50.7 | 46.8 | 20.9
November | 140.3 | 67.0 | 50.6 | 22.5
December | 144.4 | 68.7 | 53.2 | 22.2
--------------+-----------+-----------+----------+----------
NOTE.--Monthly data are preliminary and unrevised. Therefore,
they will not add exactly to annual world totals. China data refer,
wherever possible, to Mainland (Communist) China, including
Manchuria and Inner Mongolia.
Source: Official trade statistics of the free world, compiled by
U. S. Department of Commerce.
TABLE 5.--_Free world imports from the Soviet bloc, monthly, 1952 and
1953_
[In millions of U. S. dollars]
--------------+-----------+-----------+----------+-----------
| | | |
Month | Total | European | U.S.S.R. | China
|Soviet bloc| Satellites| |
--------------+-----------+-----------+----------+-----------
1952: | | | |
January | 153.8 | 76.0 | 43.7 | 34.1
February | 145.2 | 66.0 | 45.6 | 33.6
March | 138.5 | 68.0 | 44.5 | 26.0
April | 148.3 | 63.0 | 53.5 | 31.8
May | 133.4 | 60.6 | 47.3 | 25.5
June | 114.0 | 58.7 | 35.0 | 20.3
July | 125.0 | 66.9 | 28.7 | 29.4
August | 122.1 | 62.7 | 30.0 | 29.4
September | 120.6 | 56.7 | 31.9 | 32.0
October | 124.0 | 59.7 | 35.6 | 28.7
November | 135.3 | 65.2 | 35.7 | 34.4
December | 145.7 | 74.8 | 30.5 | 40.4
1953: | | | |
January | 135.4 | 67.8 | 30.9 | 36.1
February | 103.2 | 51.3 | 16.8 | 34.3
March | 115.8 | 59.6 | 19.5 | 36.2
April | 139.9 | 74.3 | 24.2 | 40.2
May | 127.6 | 61.6 | 25.0 | 40.5
June | 132.0 | 63.3 | 29.3 | 39.2
July | 124.6 | 62.2 | 29.5 | 32.6
August | 135.3 | 58.4 | 44.9 | 30.5
September | 141.3 | 65.2 | 37.5 | 38.1
October | 147.2 | 71.5 | 40.8 | 33.7
November | 129.7 | 67.6 | 34.9 | 26.8
December | 146.2 | 63.7 | 44.3 | 37.3
--------------+-----------+-----------+----------+-----------
NOTE.--Monthly data are preliminary and unrevised. Therefore, they
will not add exactly to annual world totals. China data refer,
wherever possible, to Mainland (Communist) China, including
Manchuria and Inner Mongolia. In 1952 United States statistics
included Outer Mongolia with China, where it is shown above.
In 1953 United States trade with Outer Mongolia was separately
available; it is therefore included in the total bloc column above,
but not with China. United States monthly 1953 imports from Outer
Mongolia were as follows in thousands of dollars: January, 647;
February, 800; March, 517; April 1,185; May, 474; June, 228;
July, 287; August, 1,492; September, 526; October, 1,243;
November, 357; December, 902.
Source: Official trade statistics of the free world, compiled by
U. S. Department of Commerce.
TABLE 6.--_Free-world exports to Communist China,
semiannual, 1952 and 1953_
[In millions of U. S. dollars]
--------------+-----+-----+-----+--------+------------------------------
|First|Second|First|Second |
Country | half| half| half| half | Major items in 1953
| 1952| 1952| 1953| 1953 |
--------------+-----+-----+-----+--------+------------------------------
Free-world | | | | [10] |
exports, total|112.8|143.7|158.9| 111.1|
+-----+-----+-----+--------+
Hong Kong | 29.1| 61.9| 63.7| 30.9|Medicine, dyestuffs,
| | | | | fertilizers, machinery.
Ceylon | 12.5| 13.5| 25.0| 25.9|Rubber, coconut oil.
West Germany | .2| 2.6| 13.7| 11.3|Iron and steel,
| | | | | scientific instruments,
| | | | | electrical machinery.
United | | | | |
Kingdom | 1.9| 10.9| 8.7| 8.8|Wool tops, mechanical handling
| | | | | equipment, sodium compounds,
| | | | | piece goods, ammonium
| | | | | sulphate, textile machinery.
Egypt | 2.5| 6.4| 4.9| 5.5|Cotton.
Switzerland | 2.5| 3.5| 10.0| 5.5|Watches, coal tar dyes, indigo.
Finland | .1| 6.5| 1.0| 4.4|Paper, cellulose,
| | | | | copper semi-manufactures.
Australia | .2| .4| 1.4| 3.9|Greasy wool, wool tops.
Pakistan | 54.5| 29.4| 3.6| 3.7|Cotton.
France | .9| 2.4| 9.7| 2.7|Iron and steel, machine tools,
| | | | | chemicals and pharmaceuticals.
Japan | .3| .2| 2.3| 2.2|Textile machinery, seaweed,
| | | | | superphosphates, medicines.
Netherlands | [13]| [13]| 2.6| 1.3|Ammonium sulphate.
Italy | 2.1| 1.5| 3.9| .8|Chemical fertilizer, artificial
| | | | | yarn, woolen blankets.
Sweden | .2| .4| 2.3| .4|Paper and paper manufactures.
India | 5.2| 1.3| 2.2| [11] .2|Jute bags.
Belgium- | | | | |
Luxembourg | .3| .3| 1.3| .1|Ammonium sulphate and
| | | | | sulfonitrate.
Norway | [13]| 1.7| .9| [13] |Paper.
Other | .3| .8| 1.7| [12] |
--------------+-----+-----+-----+--------+-------------------------------
[10] Estimate.
[11] July-November only.
[12] Not available.
[13] Less than $50,000.
NOTE.--Totals and Swiss data are adjusted to exclude those watches
known to be destined for Hong Kong and Malaya. So far as possible, data
refer to Mainland (Communist) China, including Manchuria and Inner
Mongolia.
Source: Official trade statistics of free-world countries, compiled by
U. S. Department of Commerce.
TABLE 7.--_Free-world imports from Communist China, semiannual, 1952
and 1953_
[In millions of U. S. dollars]
--------------+-----+------+-----+------+-------------------------------
|First|Second|First|Second|
Country | half| half| half | half | Major items in 1953
| 1952| 1952| 1953 | 1953 |
--------------+-----+-----+------+------+-------------------------------
Free world | | | | [14] |
imports, total|171.2|194.6| 226.6| 198.4|
|-----+-----+------+------|
Hong Kong | 60.7| 84.6| 84.9| 65.1|Fruits and vegetables,
| | | | | textiles,vegetable, pigs and
| | | | | poultry, eggs,plants
| | | | | and seeds.
Ceylon | .3| 6.6| 22.1| 21.8|Rice.
West Germany | 8.2| 9.4| 14.8| 18.5|Oilseeds, vegetable oils, eggs.
Japan | 5.6| 9.3| 12.6| 17.1|Oilseeds, cashmere, wool, raw
| | | | | silk, pulses.
United Kingdom| 5.0| 3.4| 12.0| 16.8|Eggs, hair, oilseeds.
Malaya | 21.0| 18.5| 20.3| 14.1|Fruits and vegetable, eggs,
| | | | | plants and seeds, paper and
| | | | | manufactures, animal feeding
| | | | | stuffs.
Switzerland | 3.5 | 6.4| 8.1| 8.0|Oilseeds, raw silk,
| | | | | silk fabrics.
France | 3.1| 2.5| 5.2| 5.8|Textile yarn and fibers,
| | | | | grains, bristles, casings,
| | | | | essential oils.
Netherlands | 2.8| 2.1| 11.8| 3.4|Oilseeds.
Belgium- | | | | |
Luxembourg | 2.5| 2.2| 4.2| 3.1|Oilseeds, vegetable oils.
Italy | .9| 1.2| 4.3| 3.1|Fats and oils, oilseeds.
Taiwan | 4.5| 5.2| 2.9| 2.8|Pulses, medicinal substances,
| | | | | vegetables.
Norway | 1.0| 2.2| .8| 2.8|Oilseeds, copra, tung oil.
French | | | | |
Morocco | 4.0| 1.5| 4.7| 2.5|Green tea.
Australia | 2.3| 1.2| 1.9| 2.4|Inedible animal products, oils,
| | | | | peanuts.
Pakistan | 1.4| 1.2| .8| 2.2|Cotton twist and yarn.
Indonesia | .9| 1.0| .7| 1.5|Vegetables, plants and seeds,
resin.
United States | 22.6| 5.1| .2| .4|Feathers, bristles, furskins,
| | | | | art works and antiques.
Canada | 1.1| .2| .7| .4|Walnuts and peanuts.
Philippines | 1.4| 1.8| 1.3|[15].4|Food, cotton and
| | | | | manufactures, coffee.
India | 10.2| 22.2| 1.4|[15].4|Rice.
Denmark | [16]| [16]| 2.1|(none)|Oilseeds, feedstuffs.
Indochina | 3.3| 4.0|[17]3.4| [18] |Not available.
Burma | 2.2| .2| .2| [18] |Garlic, raw silk and yarn,
| | | | | cotton yarn.
Other | 2.7| 2.6| 5.2| [18] |
--------------+-----+-----+------+------+-------------------------------
[14] Estimate.
[15] Figures for the second half of 1953 are incomplete as follows:
Philippines, July-November: India, July-November.
[16] Less than $50,000.
[17] January-May only.
[18] Not available.
NOTE.--So far as possible, data refer to Mainland Communist China,
including Manchuria and Inner Mongolia.
Source: Official trade statistics of free world countries, compiled by
U. S. Department of commerce.
TABLE 8.--_United States trade with the Soviet-bloc countries, 1937,
1948, 1952, and 1953_
[In thousands of dollars]
-------------+----------------------------+------------------------------
|Exports, including reexports| General imports
Country |-------+--------+-----+-----+-------+--------+------+------
| [19] | | | | | | |
| 1937 | 1948 | 1952| 1953| 1937 | 1948 | 1952 | 1953
-------------+-------+--------+-----+-----+-------+--------+------+------
Total Soviet | | | | | | | |
bloc |143,892| 396,641|1,097|1,776|206,506| 233,482|67,311|45,597
|=======+========+=====+=====+=======+========+======+======
Bloc in | | | | | | | |
Europe |94,189 | 123,241|1,097|1,776|102,884| 113,138|39,586|36,325
|-------+--------+-----+-----+-------+--------+------+------
Albania | 147 | 344| 1| 2| 137|--------| 52| 65
Bulgaria | 490 | 2,086| 24| 5| 1,862| 831| 275| 358
Czecho- | | | | | | | |
slovakia |13,233 | 21,563| 75| 40| 37,183| 22,125| 1,477| 2,262
East Germany | n.s.s.| n.s.s. | 622|1,079| n.s.s.| n.s.s.| 7,118| 6,465
Estonia | 1,244 | 7|-----| ----| 937| (X)|------|------
Hungary | 693 | 8,029| 69| 2| 5,512| 1,613| 2,913| 1,717
Latvia | 1,744 | 1|-----|-----| 767| 6|------|------
Lithuania | 511 | 115|-----|-----| 1,172| 10| 1|------
Poland and |26,297 | 55,675| 286| 622| 19,568| 1,249|10,247|14,295
Danzig | | | | | | | |
Rumania | 6,938 | 7,542|-----| 7| 4,978| 480| 683| 372
U.S.S.R. |42,892 | 27,879| 20| 19| 30,768| 86,825|16,818|10,791
|=======+========+=====+=====+=======+========+======+======
BLOC IN ASIA | | | | | | | |
| | | | | | | |
China |} |} | | | | | {| |
(including |} | | | | | {| [20] | [21]
Manchuria) |}49,703| 273,400|-----|-----|103,622|120,343{|24,605| 614
Outer | | | | | | {|
Mongolia[23]|} | | | | | {| 3,120| 8,658
North Korea | n.s.s.| n.s.s. |-----|-----| n.s.s.| n.s.s. |------|------
-------------+-------+--------+-----+-----+-------+--------+------+------
[19] Data represent direct shipments only, which in prewar years greatly
understated the trade with central European countries; for a total of
direct and indirect imports of United States merchandise see foreign
country statistics.
[20] Consisted chiefly of strategic materials specifically licensed for
import.
[21] Consisted chiefly of strategic materials specifically licensed
for import in 1952 but not actually imported until 1953, and Chinese
material located in free countries before 1950 and purchased in those
countries by Americans.
[22] United States does not consider Outer Mongolia as a part of
Communist China; traditionally for statistical purposes Outer Mongolia
has been included with China; separate figures for this area have been
compiled by Census only since January 1953. The 1952 breakdown is
estimated.
(X) Less than $500.
n.s.s. Not shown separately.
Source: U. S. Department of Commerce.
Rows of dashes: )----) mean nothing shipped.