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equivalent of between one hundred and one hundred twenty million U.S. Dollars a year, to assist their families and relatives, to invest in various enterprises and to enrich the National Treasury by making free contributions or by purchasing Patriotic Government Bonds.

Trade and Exchange Control

For the promotion of trade, for the development of industries in the interior and for the protection at the same time of the currency and foreign exchange reserves, the Government, besides concluding a number of barter arrangements with other countries, has instituted a system of control of both trade and exchange. The Foreign Trade Commission was organized immediately after the outbreak of hostilities in 1937 to control the export trade. The Commission was granted practical monopoly in handling the exportation of certain basic products, of which the outstanding examples are tea for the barter trade with Soviet Russia and Wood oil for shipment to America in connection with the $25,000,000 credit from the American Government. To a less extent, bristles and mineral products are also under Government monopoly.

Under the Control, the Commission and other Government organizations are doing everything possible to assist and cooperate with the exporters in improving the quality of their products and in increasing the quantity of their output. The exporters are given various concessions in the form of insurance subsidy, lower transportation charges or reduced taxes, but the proceeds of their exports in foreign currencies must be entirely turned over to the government at certain definitely prescribed rates. In this way, the exporters receive the National Dollars to finance their businesses in the interior, while the Government gets the foreign exchange for its requirements abroad.

Side by side with the Export Control is the system of Exchange Con- [[Control]]