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Government of India Commerce Department Report of the Trade Mission to China

1946

reAkillfa II" REPORT OF THE INDIAN TRADE MISSION TO CHINA INTRODUCTION The growing surpluses of cotton awl tobacco in India duo to the closure Ein (Await and other markets during the war particularly the Japanese market in the ease of cotton—Japan used to be the largest consumer of Indian short staple cotton in pre-war days—rendered it imperative for the Goverment of India to examine the que [...] 4. We reached Shanghai on the.25th evening and spent the best part of the ensuing three weeks in seeing officials of the City Governmant leading industrialists and business men various Chambers of Commerce the Exchange Banks the Governor awl Deputy Governors of the Central Bank of China the Bank of China representatives of the.11'oreign Economic) Affairs Association and others too numerous [...] ald consist chiefly of the basins of the Yellow River in the north and the basin of the Yangtze River in the centre—a little is also grown in the basin of the Sikiang River in the south. [...] With the increase in Chinese production of this type of tobacco and the higher cost of American and Indian leaf as the result of the import duty the proportion of the Chinese leaf for the manufacture of cigarettes has greatly increased. [...] The strain of eight years of bitter warfare the instability of political and military conditions the closure of factories in the war years the lack of raw materials the shortage of foostuffs the desperate position of industry in the hinterland the destruction of transport facilities and of shipping the acute shortage of coal had all contrbutes1 towai ds the worsening of economic con
commerce industry
Pages
99
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.143430
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
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Introduction
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Chapter I General Information
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Chapter II The Textile Industry in China
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Chapter III Raw Cotton Requirments of the Textile in China
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Chapter IV Tobacco
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Chapter V Currency and Exchange
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Chapter VI Resumption and Development of India’s Trade with China
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Chapter VII Miscellaneous
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Chapter VIII Conclusions and Recommendations
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Annexure
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