Memorandum

FOREIGN SERVICE OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA Return to miss Chaney 17 SECURITY : UNCLASSIFIED PRIORITY: AIR POUCH For 808 2 ENCLOSURES TO : Department of State JUL INFO 11 FROM HONG KONG 2093 - June 29, 1951 4468.006/6=2951 fioul SRB REF : XR 446g.009 DAR COMM NATIONAL AND COMMENT TR SUBJECT : HONG KONG'S NEW TRADE CONTROLS EPS DPA REP SERVICE" FE ljp OLI* Reference is made to the Consulate General's unclassified E telegram 3904 of June 25, 1951, reporting that the Hong Kong Government had announced that effective June 25 "Exportation (Prohibition) (Specified Articles) Order 1951" and "Importation ECA (Prohibition) (Specified Articles) Order 1951" would be intro- FRB duced. While 5 copies each of the import and export orders are FSS enclosed with this despatch, the specified items and the explana- tory remarks are repeated hereunder: 1. Arms, ammunition and implements of war, including aircraft and engines. 2. Atomic energy materials and equipment. 3. Petroleum products. Crude petroleum and refined petroleum products. Naphtha, Mineral Spirits and Solvents. 4. Transportation materials. (a) Internal combustion engines. (b) All motor vehicles (including tractors and motor cycles); trailers; and components and spares. (e) Rails, Locomotives and rolling-stock, and parts thereof. (d) Ships and floating docks; including important parts. (e) Cables suitable for harbour defence or mine sweeping. (f) Minesweeping equipment. (g) Road and aerodrome construction machinery. (h) Cranes. (i) Nylon rope and parachute cloth. (j) Containers suitable for use in storing or transporting petroleum of capacity 4 gallons or more, 5. Metals. Mineral and their Manufactures. (a) All classes of iron and steel products (includ~ ing alloy steels) up to and including finished stage and including barbed wire and steel wir strend and cable and iron and steel scrap. June Salph H. Hunt/wpv UNCLASSIFIED THIS IS NOT C. PERMANENT RECORD COPY. Retain in office files or destroy in accordance with security regulations. Reproduction of this message is not authorized.