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    "ocrText": "SECRE\nsufficient supply of fats and oils. A small dye industry relies mainly on processing\nof imported coal-tar intermediates. Stimulated by the Government and a favorable\nmarket the pharmaceutical preparations and specialties industries developed rapidly,\nparticularly during World War II. Scarcity of certain raw materials has hampered\nthe essence and perfume industry, although Spain is a surplus producer of a large\nvariety of herbs and essences.\nd. Food Processing.\nFood processing is confined mainly to milling cereals, processing wines and\noil, and preserving fish and vegetables. Small water-driven flour mills are found\nin most districts, although there are a few modern mills with up-to-date machinery\nin the chief wheat-growing areas, especially in Valladolid, Salamanca, Palencia, and\nZaragoza. Olive oil is refined in all provinces, but Andalusia leads both in output and\nnumber of mills. Mills for extracting and refining substitute oils have recently been\nconstructed.\nProcessing wines and brandies, both of which are important exports, is gen-\neral throughout Spain. Some sugar is refined locally but imports are required to\nmeet domestic demand. Preserving of fruit and vegetables is fairly widespread, but\nsince the Civil War lack of tinplate has caused a sharp decline in the output of the\npreserved fruit industry at Murcia, the chief center for this activity.\nThe processing of fish products has been the principal preserved food industry\nwhich was developed primarily for purposes of international trade. Normally, Spain\nranked third as a world producer of canned fish, producing about 3,000,000 cases per\nyear. During the past 10 years, however, both production and export volume have\nbeen steadily declining. In 1946 and 1947, exports of processed fish were negligible\nand there are no indications of an early revival of the industry.\ne. Petroleum.\nProduction of petroleum in Spain is negligible. A Spanish company under\nthe INI (National Industrial Institute) in partnership with the Socony Vacuum Oil\nCompany is drilling in the Oliana area and prospecting is proceeding in the vicinity of\nBurgos, but thus far commercial production has not been developed. Consumption\nof petroleum products is about 7-8 million barrels a year. Approximately 1/5 of these\nsupplies come from the Government-owned refinery in the Canary Islands operating\non foreign crude oil. Most of the remainder, except lubricants which originate prin-\ncipally in the United States, are imported from the Middle East and Latin America.\nf. Miscellaneous Industries.\nThe ceramics industry operates at a rather low level because of the continuing\nshortage of certain imported dyestuffs and the shortage of domestic lead. The tanning\nindustry is also curtailed by a shortage of hides and tanning materials; mass produc-\ntion of footwear is not well advanced in Spain. The tobacco industry, a Government\nmonopoly, is concentrated in a few large factories. Although the growing of tobacco\nhas rapidly increased in recent years, most of the tobacco processed is imported, a large\namount being obtained from Cuba.\n31\nSECRET"
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