International Transactions of the United States During the War ...U.S. Government Printing Office, 1940 - Balance of payments |
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American Republics amount Argentina armed forces assets balance of payments balance-of-payments Bank British Canada Canadian capital movements cash commodities Corporation Cuba currency decline deficit Department of Commerce direct investments dividends dollar bonds domestic Dominican Republic earnings economic estimated exchange Finance foreign capital foreign countries freight funds gold and dollar Haiti imports included Income on investments increase industrial investments abroad Latin America loans Long-term capital ment merchandise military million in 1940 millions of dollars Movements of foreign Movements of United Netherlands Netherlands Guiana Netherlands West Indies offset outflow oversea percent period prewar production purchases receipts and payments Reconstruction Finance Corporation reduced residents reverse lend-lease securities shipments short-term capital sterling area supplies surplus tion trade transactions transportation unilateral transfers United Kingdom United States capital United States dollars United States exports United States Government UNRRA vessels wartime
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Page 18 - Congress, or both, any defense article for the government of any country whose defense the President deems vital to the defense of the United States.
Page 96 - Bank from $700 million to $3.5 billion, removed the prohibition on loans by the Bank to governments in default on their obligations to the United States Government.
Page 15 - Board and its successor agencies — the Board of Economic Warfare, the Office of Economic Warfare, and the Foreign Economic Administration. With the active participation of the United States in the war, export control was extended to cover "any articles, technical data, materials, or supplies.
Page 138 - NOTE.— Detail will not necessarily add to totals, because of rounding. Source: US Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census.
Page 188 - Adopt" a child through Foster Parents' Plan. Let some child love you. Plan is a non-political, non-profit, non-sectarian, government-approved independent relief organization, registered under NO. VFA019 with the Advisory Committee on Voluntary Foreign Aid of the United States Government and filed with the National Information Bureau in New York City.
Page 168 - ... revenues paid by Americans to foreign air and ocean carriers and similar revenues received by American carriers from foreigners, (2) expenditures of American carriers in foreign ports and foreign carriers in American ports, (3) revenues and expenditures in Canada of American railroads operating in that. country, and (4) revenues received by American railroads for hauling foreign goods (but not passengers) in transit through the United States.
Page 169 - American-made goods shipped to post-exchanges located abroad, for instance, are not considered exports for balance-of-payments purposes. Unilateral Transfers All transfers of value, in the form of goods and services or money and other capital assets, not accompanied by a quid pro quo in one of those forms are included in this account. A debit, or payments, entry indicates a transfer from the United States to foreign countries.
Page 189 - Detailed statistics of foreign claims on the United States and of United States claims on foreigners are compiled monthly for the Treasury Department by the Federal Reserve Banks.
Page 126 - While Canada has expanded its productive capacity manifold since the beginning of the war, there are still numerous defence articles which it must obtain in the United States, and purchases of this character by Canada will be even greater in the coming year than in the past. On the other hand, there is existing and potential capacity in Canada for the speedy production of certain kinds of munitions, strategic materials, aluminum, and ships, which are urgently required by the United States for its...
Page 184 - Direct information on this subject was scanty and it was possible to make only a very rough estimate of the amounts involved in the account. Government Miscellaneous Services As in other Government accounts, the source of data on United States Government service transactions was with few exceptions — transportation being the most important — the appropriate Government agency, either direct or through the Clearing Office for Foreign Transactions. In some cases, however, certain adjustments or...