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Memorandum from Secretary of State Dean Acheson to President Harry S. Truman
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DECLASSIFIED
State By DE-B NLT, Date 4-12-85
Dept. E.O. Guidelines, March 6, 1982
12065, Sec. 3.402
EP2 51952
PERSONAL AND company.
MEMORANDUM FOR THE PRESIDENT
Subject: British Trade with Communist
Chiwa through Hong Kong
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I have looked into the matter of British trade with
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Communist China through Hong Kong, which you raised in your
memorandum of September 18.
The best information information available to us indicates
that the actual cargo tomage of exports from Hong Kong to
Communist China is much smaller than the figures mentioned to
you. The attached summary includes the essential figures.
U.S. intelligence estimates based almost entirely on a
joint US-UK study of this very problem indicate that the volume
of exports from Hong Kong to Communist China decreased from
444,000 long tons in the first half of 1951 to 170,000 tons in
the second half of 1951, and further declined to only 147,000
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tons in the first half of 1952. The total of non-Communist
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exports, excluding those carried by craft of less than 1,000
tons, averaged less than 50,000 tons a month during the first
half of 1952. This is only a small fraction of the 900,000 ton
a month (400,000 through Hong Kong and 500,000 other) referred
to in your memorandum. It is possible that the discrepency
between these figures and the ones you eite arises from a con-
fusion of annual and monthly figures.
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