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Bolivia Requests
U.S. To Increase
Price Of Tin
New York, Nov. 13.
South American Mining industrialists have asked the United States to increase the price of tin from $1.12 to $1.50 a pound.
The increase was asked by the Bolivian Association of Mining Industrialists and the National Association of Medium Miners of Bolivia, which claimed to speak for more than 40 producers who ship the major part of Bolivia's exports to the United States,
EXCHANGES
IN NY
New York, Nov. 13
US$0.95-13/10 2.80%
Canada (dollar), England ore!
unofficial
30-day futures
10-day futures
Franco (frak: +
West German
Deutschemark
Hylland (guilder;
It was asked in a letter to W. Stuart Symington, Reconstruc- tion Finance Corporation Ad- ministrator. The RFC is the sole tin-buying agency In the United States. The RFC recently proposed 2 price of $1.12 a pound.
It was a sharply-woided leller, in which the South American groups asked Mr Symington to review tin price action taken by 2.36 asked the RFC prior to his becoming
administrator.
2.33 bid/
The latter said the RFC bought
substantial
n
in
quantities
during the second half of 1948
at $1.03 a pound. The RFC is 0028-9/16 now selling tin at $1.03, the letter said, and it asked "What other metal is selling at the 1948-49 prices?
2.79
2 76
Australia (pound)
2.20
New Zealand (pound)
2.707
South Africa, (pound
Belgium (ane)
2.80
188
Denmark (krone)
1485
4.20
230
Italy-offic
1106
Norway (one)
.1405
Portugal (escudo)
0347
Spain" (pesetti
.0285
Sweden (krone)
.0935
Switzerland-free
MIDDLE EAST
Egypt (pound)
2.88!
Iran (it)
03125
Iraq (dinar)
201
Turkey (Kira)
5375
LATIN AMERICA
Argentine-official
0002
Brazil cruzeiro)
0300
Bally (boliviano)
Chile-free
,0100
Columbia (pesb)
4025
Cuba (peso)
1.00
Mexico (peso)
.1135
Para-rea
0850
Uruguay (pen)
4300
Venezuela (bolívar}
2003
FAR EAST
Titta (rupės)
2103
Pakistan (rupes;
.20930
Honkon
1766
3040
Indonesia
Singapore
Japari
QUITE CLEAR
"After tin was de-controlled in September, 1949," the letter Laid, "the RFC depressed the price of tin to about 75 cents, subsequent to the Sterling de- valuation from $4 10 $2.80.
"The RFC told us quite clearly that it saw
no reason why the
English should receive a higher Sterling price after devaluation than before. Bolivian costs are it be argued that
in dollars. Can
during the period when tin was forced down from $1.03 to 75 cents Bolivian production costs were reduced by 30 per cent?" The Bolivians said an RFC of $1.12 la based on the proposal assumption that all of the Bolivian mines can produce at the average of the Hitch and 300 yen to US$1 low-cost producers, and then ¡without allowing for mine de»
33:04
-United Press.
Copper Output Increase
Washington: Nov, 18.
THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1951.
Money Market Changes
London, Nov. 13.
As important sequels to last week's rise in the Brl- tish bank rate, three link- ing rates were raised to- day.
!Banks Increased their
to Stock Exchange dealers against Govern-
ment securities by 002- half per cent to two per cent. The rate for loans to stockbrokers went up by a half per cent to three per
сед
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The rate on Treasury Billa moved from three-
cent quarters per 25/32nds per cent--which sounds very little but means a lot to the money market, Reuter.
Western Germany's Economy
IN SURPRISINGLY SOUND STATE
Frankfurt, Nov. 13. If money could talk, it would say the Western part of beaten and divided Germany has & sounder economy than some of the winners in the late war, Britain and France fdr example.
13
That
the verdict Eurupe's free money market.
as
of
The free money market is a piace where you can trade the money of any country for money of any other country without government restrictions
fixed and such
phoney values. The
judgment of individuals
currency exchanging onc another determines the value of each currency in the market.
There
for
frée
21
Zurich The free money
the
a place Is such
market of Zurich quotes West German mark
19 rents, the proximately
Cut-Price Japanese
Goods Alarm America
FOREBODINGS JUSTIFIED
(By KAY MURRAY)
New York.
Those observers in Britain and the U.S. who condemned the Japanese peace treaty as a threat to national trade are finding increasing evidence that their forebodings had basis in fact.
In Britain, the Secretary-General of the Association of British Chambers of Commerce, Mr Arthur R. Knowles, said that the much-feared Japanese competition in Britain was "still in the baby stage."
In the United States, it is already at an adult
level.
LED
HONGKONG
SHARE MARKET
(From Our Correspondent)
In the toy field, for instance, an additional £128 million for which used to be dominated by services to United Nations fores their Orientai neighbours, it is In Korea.
The US Government, feels coming up fast, and US. manu-
Business done on the Stock facturers say that, even with a that if the Japs don't earn dollars
Exchange their export
this morning was 70 per cent tariff duly, Japan by building
On the valued at $124,290. Noon quota- can undersell them.
rads, they wil be American taxpayers' backs or tions and the morning's trans-
be forced to make trade actions:- will agreements with Red China and SHARES BUYERS SELLERS SALES other Communist nations, which BANKS would be highly disagregable to The US. and its allies.
As com-
The pottery manufacturers are taking a beating Japan is now exporting £2,800,000, pared with a pre-war total of a million pounds.
But their amiable little eat-
petitors aren't just flooding the market, they are selling at prices Americans can't meet.
A
98-plece dinner set, for in- stance, selling in the US for
£19. 63. is duplicated by the Japs for £16, 10s, and Japanese dishes are selling for as much k 60 per cent less than American product.
SEWING MACHINES
the
The glass trade is deeling a draught, too, with Japanese im- por:s up to £560,000, compared with a pre-war £232,950.
Decrease In Rayon Shipments
New York, Nov. 13. Rayon shipments by domeştir
in producers
October
totalled
Date
Port
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Port
15th Nov.
10th Nov. 19th Nov. 20th Nov.
ist Dec. Zod Dec. 6th Dec,
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In the sewing machine field, (2,200,000 pounds, the statistical where American skill and know-bulletin of the Textile Economics how has excelled for years, Bureau reported today. there are some very glum faces,
The total represented a decline INDUSTRIALS for as much as 30 per cent of
Cement at of of 1 per cent from Septem- the home market has been cap-ber, and 28 per cent under !ured by Japanese imports.
1951 second quarter dead ringers for the American
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4.20
machines, bu; retailing at £31 average of 116,800,000 pounds.
The paper pointed out that the compared with the home product
figures Indiente a low rate of at £63. 75. 6d. at ap-
demand
most segments of the high-textile ecnsuming trades with the
But it isn't just the British shilling nt about 12 geared industrial cities of the northern States that are suffer- ing
cenis.
The franc and mark each were worth about 20 cents be- fore Western civilisation's Arst great modern catastrophe. That was the World War 1. The Erl- tish shilling was worth nearer 25 cents then.
A lot of things have mappen- since World ed to Germany
War I. After World War I, the German mark became valueless millions for $1. A new mark was created.
dry
And her war was lost and the Germans
wrung were again. So they have set up a other mark and as of now it is very close to the par value of -- United nearly 40 years ago. Press.
London Share
Slump
London, Nov. 1a. Industrial issues and British Government bonds slumped on the London Stock Exchange to-
Loses
day
A
Government in the bond, list ran up to 4 of point. Oil
stocks and mining also finished on the minus side. bonds Japanese Government
amid the
general were firm Juliness.
Most investors appeared to be awaiting the next move di the new Conservative Govern ment in its battle to put the, Ha on inflation and improve Bri-
international tain's position.
trading
The Financial Times daily index was 129.00. Japanese bonds
"A" (43. of 1899)
"C" (56. of 1007)
"D" of 1934)
"E" (545. of 1834) Consols
BELE
In California, tourists exclaim cestatically over the San Diego tuna fishing Bee-big matern clippers with radar, ship-to-shore telephones and all modern con- veniences.
Ewo
same situation true in cotton and COTTONS especially in wool where a large consumption is for military pur- percentage of the already small
poses.
Rayon staple Imports during September totalled 7,586,000 gainids, compared with 7,981,000 But the skippers of the beauti-pounds in August. The total ful modern craft aren't ecstatic staple imports for the first nine as they remain tied up in hat-months of the year are 73,395,000 bour day after day.
Half the 200-ship feet is idle.
it's likely "By mid-October, that almost the entire fleet will
her, be indefinitely moored said the business agent for the boa: engineers' union.
-TEXTILE FIELD
Many small boat owners foc being forced out of business. The reason? Imported Japanese canned tuna-two million cases of 11, nearly dour times as much! as they supplied in 1948.
When the duty was caised this ear from 22 per cent to 45 per cent on tinned imparts, the Japanese did a quick switch to raw frozen fish which comes in duty free.
on
|belinds against 57,245,000 pounds
in the corresponding 1950 period.
The Rubber
Markets
Loriden, Nov. 13. Prices of rubber futures closed Imports of rayon filament yarneday as follows: in the last month totalled 28,000 pounds. The first nine months Number 1 rubber,
in cents per 1b. jotat of flement imports amounted
December to 5,041,000 pounds, compared |January/March (1952)
April/June with 2,374,000 pounds in the same | period of 1980.—United Press,
Seasonal Highs In
Grain Prices
In the textile feld, the U.S. is less affected than Britain, whose markets Japan-now the number one textile exporter of he world is impinging heavily.
Not all the merchandise they offer at low prices is of lew value. It varies from very good to very bad, and business eties show about the same variation.
American manufacturers cont-
Witat-price per bushel. plain that not a single product Spot put out by their Far East neigh- December
irade March (1952) bcurs bears an Oriental name. Frequently names well y known to the American public, Corn
"Hoover," lee "Admiral,”
or Spot
December "Zenith" appear on goods that Merch (1957) are not even third cousin twice May July removed to these standard brand Rye
December,
Chicago, Nov. 13. Exporters' buying, plus the unfavourable weather, carried most deliveries of grain futures to seasonal highs.
Prices of grain futures closed as follows:-
names.
110
Associated Press and United Press.
UK's Exports
At New High
London, Nov. 19.
pletion, amortisation and profits Britain's exports in October comparable with allowances for
reached the record value of other metals-Associated Press, £235,200,000, the Board of Trade
LONDON MARKET
announced tonight..
London, Nov. 19, Prices of tin were very easy this morning, Turnover was
the
The daily rate of exports was two per cent higher than the average for the third quarter of announcement year, $61
In the first 10 months of the year exports were equivalent 16 du ennuki rate of 22.068 million 10 per cent above, the total for
adged 118 tons, including 10 tons for
The Detence Materials. Pro- caah.
qurettight Agency announced "to- Prices cloned at day an agreement under whichi | the omelai tha Anaconda Clopet Company follows:
the end of
will produpe an exté 30,000 Spot tission as
Spot tin, nelés
19rs of copper, per year, Busins done at GVAdministrator Jen Latson Three months Un, buyers l the et Rond, KHI Cô Thiên Tin Bio khi thweler
· Bastoris 'Come, 'at.
rioni, mine in Lyon Bettlement
"The prodita-
Anabout wo
#
lamber, imports rose again in Obicber 16-12201,600,000, about
- level of June, July and
W New York, Nov. 18. -ITTENS IDEALAINEDRE Coconut oil was quoted at
with ri experis in October a
£ 10,300,000, the exceek of impene
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MANY COMPLAINTS
The Federal Trade Commons- Star in New York is investigating a number of complaints that "heads"-the ecwing machine
Instrument itself, which is the
Match (1952)
December -Blerch (1952)
July September
43-4915
43-431
4251⁄2-31
4215-
40-40%
United Press.
SINGAPORE MARKET
Singapore, Nov. 13.
Prices of rubber futures closed
cday as follows:-
Number rubber, per ib.
November
December
January (1952)
147-14711 14544-148 14444-145 Number Zrubber, November 140%-141 Number 3 rubber, November 1351-130! Number 4 rubber, November 13011⁄2-131 Spot rubber, unbaled
Black crepe.... No, i palé crepe
Exchange
1402-247
100-200 154-159 United Press.
Rates
in the locat Business was done unofficial exchange market this morning of the following rates:-
2.48
U.S. Dollars (per (1)
8.85
Sterling note (per 1
15.38
2.593% 2.49-4
Indonesia guilders (per 100)
3.30
Stam tieals her 100)
27.30
Singapore (Stṛalta)
FTC plastres (per 100)
1.745 13,675
1.84-1.84%
188-1.877
1.852%
1.88-4
1.85
2.03%
9736-56 1,00
New York Bour-per 200 10. Sack $1325.-United Press.
only part shipped by Japan-ar U.S. Trade With
assembled in such a way that
a legend, "Made in Japan's West Germany
not visible, as the tow plainly requires it to be.
These same machines come without benefit of spare parts so that, as one New Jersey dealer
New York, Nov. 13.
American imports from Wes- fern Germany are expec ed to put it tartly: "When the house exceed $200,000,000 this year or wife wants parts, she'll have to about double the 1950 imports, a have an American part warped irade official said, into shape for her at a mail Henri Abt, Chief of the Gre fortune
Office m
"American businessmen American Trade Promotion
York, sald Imports wearing long faces these day for the first seven monilis of "How can
whch this year totaled $138,500,000 we compete depanese
PEPPER MARKET
New York, Nov. 13. In the black pepper market.
spot pepper dealers indicated at $1.67 a pound, November delivery at $1.64 and December delivery at between $1.57 mid $1.59 a pound. January delivery at $1.49-1.50 and January/March shipment
was offered
at
sock bags United Press.
$1.10 à pound. all on an ex-
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