File No. 657.119/254
The Acting Secretary of State to the Minister in Norway ( Schmedeman )
207. Following schedule was delivered yesterday to Nansen as supplementary to proposal of December 20. Figures indicate tentative amounts in metric tons.
[Page 1114]Proposed schedule of commodities agreed to by the United States and her associates in the war as sufficient to cover this year’s Norwegian requirements considering the existing conditions:
Foodstuffs: | |
Bread grains, including rice | 300,000 |
Starches | 1,000 |
Cocoa | 1,400 |
Coffee | 14,500 |
Tea | 160 |
Sauces and pickles | 80 |
Syrup | 5,000 |
Spices | 382 |
Fruit, dried | 4,000 |
Fruit, fresh | 6,000 |
Oils and fats: | |
Vegetable and animal oils | 10,000 |
Mineral oils | 76,500 |
Rubber, etc | 500 |
Textiles: | |
Silk yarn and tissues | 110 |
Cotton, raw, yarn and manufactures | 8,000 |
Wool, wool yarns and products | 3,700 |
Miscellaneous: | |
Corkwood | 900 |
Tin, raw | 80 |
Lead | 1,000 |
Antimony | 12 |
Asbestos | 350 |
Borax and boric acid | 80 |
In addition to the quantities mentioned, further quantities may be granted where it is found that the amount stated is not sufficient for the needs of Norway.
Norway’s requirement of oil cake, when ascertained, will be allowed.
There is to be included in the foregoing schedule certain textiles, hides and skins, and a large tonnage of raw phosphate for agricultural purposes, together with necessary agricultural machinery and other articles to assist Norway in increasing her own production of foodstuffs.
The stocks of imported foodstuffs and other supplies in Norway are, when ascertained, to be deducted from the quantities given.
Norway’s import of the foregoing quantities to be conditioned upon her continuing certain exports to the powers associated with the United States.