TRADE WITH CHINA

Press, Volume XC, Issue 27374, 12 June 1954, Page 7

TRADE WITH CHINA

Official List Of Items

(Rec. 8 p.m.) LONDON, June 10. As part of a general drive to capture more trade with Communist China, the Board of Trade last night published a list of more than 4000 items that can now be exported to Communist China by British businessmen, subject only to normal licensing procedure.

The list covers a wide range of goods including cars, textile plant, and machinery, office machinery, chemicals, drugs, leather goods, agricultural equipment, textiles, and clothing. It is the first time since export controls were introduced that the list has been made available to British firms, who previously had to rely on applications for export licences either being accepted or rejected. The list itself is not necessarily all that can be supplied by British exporter® without infringing the severe restrictions still in force on the export of strategic goods. The Cheese will send a top-level trade negotiating committee to London within the next two weeks, when representatives of British industry hope to-be able to repew some of their pre-war contacts in China.

The Chinese in turn will provide a list of goods they are prepared to export to Britain.