File No. 657.119/384b
The Acting Secretary of State to the Ambassador in Great Britain ( Page)
[Telegram]
Washington,
March 7, 1918—3 p.m.
6789. For Sheldon [from War Trade Board]:
No. 170. The following schedules of articles showing the annual import requirements of Norway, are the schedules mentioned in cabled agreement of March 2 (quantities are in metric tons):
| A. | Foodstuffs and fodder: | ||
| Bread grains, including rice | 300,000 | ||
| Oil cake | 25,000 | ||
| Grains | 60,000 | ||
| Starches | 1,000 | ||
| Cocoa | 1,400 | ||
| Coffee | 14,500 | ||
| Tea | 160 | ||
| Sauces and pickles | 80 | ||
| Sirup | 5,000 | ||
| Spices | 382 | ||
| Fruit, dried | 4,000 | ||
| Fruit, fresh | 6,000 | ||
| Sugar | 50,000 | ||
| Pork and beef | 10,000 | ||
| Wines | 2,000 | ||
| B. | Oils and fats, etc.: | ||
| Vegetable and animal oils | 10,000 | ||
| Oil seeds | 20,000 | ||
| Mineral oils, lubricating oil | 10,000 | ||
| Naphtha and benzine | 3,000 | ||
| Petroleum | 40,000 | ||
| Crude oil | 20,000 | ||
| Fuel oil, including gasoline and Diesel oil | 3,500 | ||
| (Mineral oils) paraffin wax, stearine, stearine acid, and palm acid | 650 | ||
| Vegetable and mineral turpentine and white spirits | 190 | ||
| Varnishes | 260 | ||
| Shellac | 68 | ||
| Ceresin, carnauba wax | 40 | ||
| C. | Rubber: | ||
| Rubber shoes, tires, and other articles made of rubber | 500 | ||
| D. | Textiles: | ||
| Silk yarn and tissues | 110 | ||
| Cotton, raw, and yarn and manufactures | 8,000 | ||
| Wool, wool yarn, and products | 3,700 | ||
| Flax, hemp, jute, and tow | 5,000 | ||
| E. | Miscellaneous: | ||
| Corkwood | 900 | ||
| Borax and boric acid | 80 | ||
| Asbestos | 350 | ||
| Rock phosphate | 40,000 | ||
| Antimony | 12 | ||
| Hides | 2,500 | ||
| Tanning extract | 3,500 | ||
| Resin | 400 | ||
| Tobacco | 2,000 | ||
| F. | Metals, minerals, etc.: | ||
| Tin | 80 | ||
| Tin plate | 25,000 | ||
| Lead | 1,000 | ||
| Iron and steel (pig-iron ingots, bars, hoops, beams, angles, plates, pipes, fittings, wire, etc.) | 50,000 | ||
| Copper (plates, bars, pipes, wire cable) | 2,000 | ||
| G. | Machinery, etc., to be agreed; chemicals to be agreed; office equipment and supplies as required; musical instruments, phonographs, as required; glassware, pottery, ornamental electrical fixtures, etc., as required; hardware as required. |
Polk